At first glance it looks like people have agency, but I think very often the root cause is "system traps".
Enshittification happens because to a certain extent, the market demands that firms maximise returns. Companies that don't do this get weeded out.
Climate change is a challenging co-ordination problem because nobody wants to tank their economy more than they have to, there's no real enforcement for "cheats" and even agreeing on an accounting basis is politically fraught. Politicians that don't grant concessions to powerful existing vested interests are less electable.
AI safety is predictably going to be a secondary priority when competition gets tight.
Enshittification happens because the people who own and run the "markets" have decades of practice using them as an excuse for their entirely self-serving choices.
They're closely associated with the econo-political concept of There Is No Alternative.
The choices which benefit them personallyare catastrophic for most of the population in the short term (see today's news about insulin prices for one tiny example) and will be catastrophic for absolutely everyone in the longer term.
Climate change is enshittification on a planetary scale.
If someone went around setting fire to rows of houses it wouldn't take long for them to be jailed.
For some reason when corporations do the same to the planet it's "economics" and "market forces", and we're supposed to just accept it.
> Enshittification happens because to a certain extent, the market demands that firms maximise returns. Companies that don't do this get weeded out.
Do they really get weeded out? Do you have any examples of companies that went bankrupt because they insisted to stay consumer friendly rather than maximize returns?
Typical reasons companies go bankrupt are: failing to make a competitive product, betting on the wrong horse, or failing to adapt to change. In all three cases they can stay consumer friendly or not - it wouldn't matter.
Interestingly enough the issues you list seem related to capitalism rather than just any form of societal system.
Many literary utopias have non-capitalist systems but usually some sort of circular sharing system (some are outright communist, but others more slow living).
Greed must always be checked by a society. But since Calvinism we've had a dual moral reasoning (was that Charles Taylor or Hegel, can't recall). Through Calvinism capitalism attained the moral good of earning more than you need, to deploy greed for God.
Humans are naturally greedy (natural egoism is not immoral just a biological drive) and our political system should balance that out somehow.
Enshittification happens because to a certain extent, the market demands that firms maximise returns. Companies that don't do this get weeded out.
Climate change is a challenging co-ordination problem because nobody wants to tank their economy more than they have to, there's no real enforcement for "cheats" and even agreeing on an accounting basis is politically fraught. Politicians that don't grant concessions to powerful existing vested interests are less electable.
AI safety is predictably going to be a secondary priority when competition gets tight.