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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Do you really have to ask? Capitalism, when it goes unchecked, turns everything shitty. Capitalism has been relatively unchecked in the US for the last 50 years, so everything is shitty. That’s starting to change as unions become more powerful again, but they’re still a fraction of what they were in the early 20th century. Late stage capitalism, baby!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

mArXiSm

go actually read Marx, dude was smart af.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Anything in particular? He has boocoos of books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

beaucoups

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Gesundheit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

There are multiple acceptable spellings of this word.

beau·coup (bō′ko͞o′, bo͞o′-, bō-ko͞o′) also boo·coo or boo·koo (bo͞o′-)Informal

I chose boocoos, because it looks funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Capital 1, if you can hack it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's very long. Seems interesting, though. As someone that has lived in communism, I can say with first hand that it doesn't work en mass. But, then again, capitalism doesn't work either...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's more of a treatise on economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh ok cool. I added to the reading list yesterday, and plan to get to it after the one I'm reading now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The Manifesto is literally 20 pages.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not only are unions enjoying a resurgence holding employers to account, the FTC under Lina Khan is doing antitrust for the first time in most of our lifetimes. It's bad now, but it will get better if we fight for it like we did back then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Unions have nothing to do with companies enshittifying their products and services

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Free the beers and we might see some novel inventions like the Japanese toilet bidet )