Digital india is some unholy nexus of whatsapp based customer service, confused bureaucracy bots, fretful pointless KYCing at every turn, aadhar/pan surveillance overreach and annoying android crap (somehow feels far less intuitive than iOS)... it's kinda exhausting.

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Meta-enshittification because everything digital is an overlay on last-inch extra ooga-booga in local languages you may or may not know

We should call it platform monarcho-libertarianism.... all the anarchic friction of libertarianism with all the coercive control of platform economics and an above-the-law layer