# Worse on Purpose

> Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

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## Posts
- [The Mechanisms Of Enshittification](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/the-mechanisms-of-enshittification): How the things you buy get worse, who profits from it, and how to tell before you pay.
- [Whole Foods Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/whole-foods-got-worse-on-purpose): It started as a flooded little store the neighbors bailed out by hand. It became an arm of Amazon that scores its own workers on how likely they are to unionize.
- [Your Appliances Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-appliances-got-worse-on-purpose): Dozens of brands, five or six owners, and a fridge built to quit just after the warranty does.
- [Your Pet Care Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-pet-care-got-worse-on-purpose): How Mars, KKR, and JAB quietly bought up the clinics that treat America's dogs and cats, why your bill keeps climbing and the legal trick that lets a corporation own a practice in states where that is illegal.
- [Your Mattress Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-mattress-got-worse-on-purpose): The world's largest mattress maker now owns America's largest mattress retailer. The FTC tried to stop them and lost.
- [Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-dinner-got-worse-on-purpose): Restaurant prices keep climbing. The food keeps getting worse. There's a reason for both.
- [Your Favorite Brands Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-favorite-brands-got-worse-on-purpose): One company owns Brooks Brothers, Champion, Eddie Bauer, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and the licensing rights to Elvis's likeness. They don't make a single product themselves.
- [Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glasses-got-worse-on-purpose): How an Italian orphan built a $27 billion monopoly that controls the brands, the stores, the lenses, and the insurance.
- [Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power-tools-got-worse-on-purpose): How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions.
- [Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose): In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

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- [Keyana Sapp](https://www.worseonpurpose.com/authors/keyana-sapp)