The fourth stage is to run away with the money, leaving stockholders and investors with a failed company in their hands which they can’t bring back from the dead because both users and business partners hate it.
stage 5: revolution - overthrow the oppressive corporate system; nationalize all monopolies, split them into different smaller companies, give those companies to the workers who will collectivize them. seriously!
This is between stages 3 and 4:
wiki/Enshittification
The fourth stage is to run away with the money, leaving stockholders and investors with a failed company in their hands which they can’t bring back from the dead because both users and business partners hate it.
stage 5: revolution - overthrow the oppressive corporate system; nationalize all monopolies, split them into different smaller companies, give those companies to the workers who will collectivize them. seriously!