‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

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We're all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit," author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.

In 2022, Doctorow coined the word enshittification", which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.

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