I'm sorry guys, I've been noticing things again. Although this might be somewhat refreshing compared to the usual breadtube shit that we're being subjected to at the moment which I can't stand.
When it comes to my daily spending habits I'm something of a die-hard cheapskate so I'm not fucking myself over by buying unnecessary things but now products seem to be gradually getting worse and worse while somehow maintaining the same prices and shamelessly ripping people off. Now some of it is just them being cheapskates, but when it comes to the packaging of food in particular I keep noticing that the stuff I buy is being shipped in increasingly flimsy material as an example and I've been building a bit of a list I wanted to compare because of course I'm going to be autistic as fuck about this.
Just a general list that I'm thinking about.
. Milk bottles with ultra thin plastic that often bend at the slightest bit of weight change, often causing a leak
. Ice cream cartons made of flimsy and thin cardboard compared to the sturdy plastic they're often in
. Paper straws(?)
. Electric vehicles that take forever to charge up and seem to have a habit of setting themselves on fire while parked
. Self-assembly furniture made with steel you could almost bend with your fingers
. Flimsy cutlery you can definitely bend with your fingers
It's getting so bad with the quality now it's something of a false economy to go for the cheap stuff anymore or we're being forced to accept these cheap products because it's everywhere now. I'm actually considering getting a proper milk jug because the bottles you get are so flimsy. If you complain of course, inevitably they're going to stick you with the climate denier label among with other things like if how you keep noticing all the shit SJWs are doing you're a racist and a sexist.
You almost have to admire the op they're running on the sophistication of it, then they act like massive boomers on a lot of other stuff.
That's interesting. I find complaining about getting schlonged at the market is a great common talking point with people I disagree with politically.
Megacorps don't care. Monopolies and cartels are allowed to operate freely because they pay the right politicians, so if they all agree to fuck you, they will. Modern-era interpersonal relationships means no one has any qualms about screwing over their customers, their neighborhoods, or their people. Add in the competency crisis, and the knowledge to actually make shit that works even on a basic level will be gone from all things in a generation.
You already see this today in tech. It started with bugfest games that barely run and need 3 months of patches even on fixed-hardware consoles. We're now in the part where your new phone might actually be diagnosed as schizophrenic with glitches you just have to get used to. My parent's Linux-based computer went tits up because apparently nvidia drivers are broken on the newest kernel but the package repo pushed the update out anyway.