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

theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn’t also decreased.

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Airfried@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    don’t say it in cop voice
    
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OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not to mention less cacao

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