you can simplify the entire modern economy down to “[corporation] is quietly ruining [object/service/everything]”
maybe some day people will eventually wake up to the reality that corporate capitalism optimizes the efficient creation of profit, not the efficient creation of quality or quantity of products. in fact producing products or anything of quality is actively inconvenient to the profit motive- which is why you see subscriptions everywhere now.
I want to tell a little story. This happened 45 minutes ago. I was at the grocery store and told my daughter she could pick out a snack treat for herself. She picked Lucky Charms Bars, I was happy to buy them until I looked at the box and the price*. $4.99 CAD for 110 grams of Lucky charm bar. $1 per 22 gram serving. That’s $20 a lb.
Know what I can get for $20 a lb or less?
Pretty much any steak cut, chicken, pork, TVP, oatmeal, rice, beans, fruits, or vegetables.
I feel like inflation, and this ingredient swapping enshittification of food has hit hardest on junk food. My family has been fairly insulated from it because we don’t eat a lot of it. Of course, I’ve noticed chicken and beef and other staples go up, but they haven’t shot up like packaged convenience food has.
I talked her out of those, I pointed out for the same $5 she could buy many, many more cookies, or ice cream for days. And she understood that, thank goodness.
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