SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 15 hours ago (edited 14 hours ago)

I think the actual reality may be that it’s actually, genuinely not profitable enough to serve the poorest of society. (At least in the eyes of the demented greedy fucks running the show)

We’ve seen an explosion of business-to-business sales and more businesses are spending more money on “productivity” software suites and more. Software is indeed eating business and making it more costly while often not actually providing as much real value as they’re selling you. Small businesses are overwhelmed by these costs and often put out of business by them.

Even gas stations all have video ads. The money they’re making off the gas isn’t enough, they need to supplement it with advertising. Advertising is becoming more ubiquitous than I could have even ever imagined, and I thought it was over-the-top and abusively ubiquitous 30 years ago.

Fast food like Dominos has to keep assembly-line, sweatshop like conditions to keep up with internet ordering (with no built-in rate-limiter, an infinite amount of people can order pizza at the same time, they just want you to keep up), and even with those kind of conditions, it’s often just barely scraping by on breaking even on costs. Most restaurants are struggling with this right now, its an industry I expect to see fail almost completely except for rich, fancy restaurants.

It certainly feels like we’re about to see a whole glut of consumers that companies just aren’t even interested in anymore because they’re not interested in people with no money to spend.

I’m not really excited about where this is all headed. Expect more Company Towns on the horizon…

From Heroes back to Zeroes… Fuck this shithole country that doesn’t give a damn about millions of its own citizens.

SnotFlickerman, 14 hours ago (edited 13 hours ago)

There’s lots of little signs.

Loss of 24 hour stores. It used to be profitable enough to leave places open all night for people to come in all night. Both Target and Walmart (poor people stores) have pretty much dumped it and don’t even do stocking overnight anymore. This leads to the same stores being a mess and feeling difficult to navigate (especially when its actively being stocked and you’re just trying to get past them), pushing more people to order online and pickup because its easier than trying to find it yourself and in the store the price is often wrong or just not listed.

Suddenly its not profitable to give a shit about things like customer service. It just feels like it portends that a certain number of customers now can be considered “acceptable losses.”

SnotFlickerman, 20 hours ago

Chad Steve Dallas not taken in by this Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

SnotFlickerman, 19 hours ago

https://media.tenor.com/F9EfM4fdgzIAAAAM/vin-diesel-i-dont-have-friends.gif

SnotFlickerman, 20 hours ago

Does Unraid count as paid Linux itself, not just a Linux utility?

SnotFlickerman, 20 hours ago

KDEndlive is pretty solid, imho

SnotFlickerman, 18 hours ago

When you aren’t sure where your next meal comes from or if you can afford rent and you already work full-time…

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that is probably a valid time to be vocally loud about it.