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[–] 66 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh absolutely. Productivity has increased drastically since the 90s but wages never kept up.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Don't say it in cop voice. Say:

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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I visited a chocolate confection assembly plant. The only things humans do now is random tasks like flip the random bar that for some reason fell odd onto 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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