Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent.
If you haven’t already heard, BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or the legendary driving dynamics that gearheads love. Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.
I would like to get my hands on those Engineers. Do we have a term for engineers who design pro-capitalist enshittification tech ?
Depending on their place in the chain of command, either a capitalist or a wage slave
Enshitineers?
Nice catch lol
As an engineer, I second this. Unfortunately, many engineers fail to ever acquire a conscience.