Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action

• Airfried@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh absolutely. Productivity has tripled in many western countries during that time. Wages never kept up with that but prices sure did…

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  • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t say it in cop voice. Say:

    we made everything drastically more productive and the pedophiles stole all the gains. We keep letting them.

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    • Airfried@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything.

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      • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        don’t say it in cop voice

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• TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does infinite growth mean eternal shrinkflation? Will it ever plateau? Or collapse?

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shrinkflation implies a customer base that would either go elsewhere or without. I’m sure you’ve seen the efforts to eliminate all competition (establishing trusts, i.e. mega mergers) and weaseling into contracts like government that can’t be avoided.

    When your audience has no choice, you have no limits.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I visited a chocolate confection assembly plant. The only things humans do now is random tasks like flip the random bar that for sone reason fell odd obto conveyor or shift the skewed box on the pallet, or open the door for a shipment.

  The rest was automatic, from the pipes running chocolate throughout the plant to the final gluing and boxing.

  The costs are materials, and the factory operation cost, labour is almost nothing. So to increase profit they really can only cheapen or lesson the materials

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not to mention less cacao

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