Intentional Precarization

The deliberate design and maintenance of economic instability as a feature of labor systems, not a bug. Intentional precarization occurs when employers, platforms, or policymakers consciously structure work to be precarious because precarity serves their interests—it disciplines workers, suppresses wages, prevents organization, and ensures maximum flexibility for capital. The gig economy's algorithmic scheduling, the just-in-time workforce, the proliferation of independent contractor status, the erosion of labor protections—these are not unfortunate side effects but intended outcomes. Intentional precarization is the open-air prison's foundation: keep workers uncertain enough to accept anything, desperate enough to never resist.

Intentional Precarization Example: "The platform could have provided stable schedules and predictable income—instead, they designed algorithmic unpredictability because it maximized their flexibility. Not accidental precarity, but Intentional Precarization, precarity as architecture."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

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Intentional Enshittification

The deliberate degradation of wages, jobs, products, or services by those who control them, as a strategy for extracting maximum value from locked-in users or workers. Intentional enshittification occurs when platforms or employers consciously decide to make things worse because they can—because switching costs are high, because alternatives have been eliminated, because workers are trapped, because users are addicted. Each degradation is calculated: how much can we cut before they leave? How much can we extract before they break? The process is not accidental but engineered, not inevitable but chosen.

Intentional Enshittification Example: "The app could have maintained quality, but once workers depended on it for survival, they intentionally degraded pay and conditions—not market forces, but Intentional Enshittification, the deliberate poisoning of your own product because you own the only well."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

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Intentional Mindgoon

Purposefully misleading someone with untrue scandalous information, usually with nefarious intention.

He told her I had a girlfriend just so he could make a move first and she wasn't even interested in him. Pulled an Intentional Mindgoon.

by Simon NonSeeDave September 6, 2025

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Un-intentional Caring

When you ask someone what's up expecting to hear nothing. But instead they tell you things are terrible and you end up consoling that person... Usually done with little to no knowledge of what the situation is.

Friend: What's up? Me: I was talking to a friend and got guilted into Un-intentional Caring when she told me about her ex

by ChaumChom August 27, 2010

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un-intentional emotional fuck(boy/girl)

Someone who gives somebody the idea that they want to be in a relationship with them/have sex with them, BUT.... doesn't realize that he or she is giving that vibe.

Christina thought she was in a loving relationship with Bob. Although, he did not intent to give her that idea.

Bob is in this case 'un-intentional emotional fuck(boy/girl).

by Hot in Psychotic December 4, 2017

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