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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?

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  • Thank you! I've been reading the responses and many of them hit the mark, but yours is the only one mentioning the sbortsightedness of it all. My brother and I have had many conversations about this subject and agree that part of it has to be some kind of collective brain misfire for the lack of a better phrase, that happens to organisms that get to the level we're at, since everything that we build moves faster than evolution will allow our brains to adapt to, and while we see all of this as a mistake we've made or a small subset of us being greedy and upsetting the apple cart, I posit that it is just our species finally reaching a bottleneck that all species eventually face. We just artificially pushed the ceiling further and further upward so we didn't see it. I think we are starting to see it though and it's unlikely that we can do anything to stop from hitting it now.

    • 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?

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  • Time to sharpen the guillotines again..

    • Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

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  • Black Mirror episodes coming true or already being true is hedging into "Simpsons did it!" Territory

    • Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

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  • Talk about forgetting your roots...

    • Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

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  • If you didn't say it I was gonna.

    • Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

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  • Late stage capitalism ruined or will ruin every corporation FTFY

    • The UAW Strike May Have Finally Set Us Up for a General Strike

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  • After reading the article I not only signed up for Teen Vogue's political newsletter, I signed up for the United Autoworkers Union newsletter too and I'm not even part of a Union!

    • What a ripoff!

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  • Rawvocado

    • Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation

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  • It makes sense if the false idea that "you can be like the greedy ones in power if you work to prop them up"

    • Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation

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  • Yeah. That's how culture works from an anthropological lens. Culture makes people and people make culture and each individual moves the needle just a microscopic amount while some move it a bit more. (Gross simplification) my wife has a master's in classical anthropo and I had some exposure to anthropological theory lol.

    • Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation

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  • Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. This is a very defeatist attitude you seem to have. I get it, btw.

    • What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?

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  • On the other side of that coin, it is much easier for someone with a high degree of intelligence and self awareness, to perform the necessary mental gymnastics to justify bullshit beliefs...

    • What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?

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  • Much easier to rearrange reality to fit your perception rather than alter your perception and admit that you're possibly wrong.

    • What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?

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  • Yeah. It's totally the sunken cost fallacy. They mistakenly think that there is too much to lose to change their minds and cut their losses.

    • Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. So far, they aren't spending — or voting — like it.

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  • That is a wonderful analogy!

    • Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. So far, they aren't spending — or voting — like it.

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  • DING DING DING. The 10 or so mega corporations that are left after all the consolidation 2 Electric Boogaloo are making BANK so yeah... We good. /s

    • Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. So far, they aren't spending — or voting — like it.

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  • I'm no fucking expert, but I've been around this shit show of a world long enough to realize that "economy good" equals Stockmarket is good which translates to rich people are still getting richer so fuck NBC

    • New House Speaker Mike Johnson Wants Women to Pop Out 'Able-Bodied Workers' to Fund Social Security

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  • I just see this as one more revolution. Not the good kind, just the "neutral" kind that the great George Carlin talked about, as we continue to circle the drain as a species...

    • Family files lawsuit against Panera Bread after college student who drank ‘charged lemonade’ dies

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  • Reporting in after having just come from Panera due to this article. Didn't read article, and it might be click bait or might not. I do know that the drink in question is slapped right beside all the typical juices and sodas, and the label says "contains as much as our dark roast coffee" then below that, even less obvious it gives serving sizes & caffeine amounts. Call me crazy, but I doubt your average consumer is going to consider just how much caffeine might be in LEMONADE.

    Panera is definitely losing this one. It could even be argued that they chose a product with that much caffeine and to not really advertise it based on the amounts of caffeine of the 30oz literally being a hair's width away from the potential danger threshold.

    • Family files lawsuit against Panera Bread after college student who drank ‘charged lemonade’ dies

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  • They've actually done pretty recent studies and concluded you would have to get above 10 cups of coffee for it to stop being healthy.

    Note that I said healthy and NOT that it would then be unhealthy. I'm bot sure how much coffee you would have to drink for that to happen, but seeing as how caffeine was misattributed to being hard on the heart and cardiovascular system, I imagine it would take a lot or like this poor young woman, you'd have to have a heart problem already.