In this case, I don’t understand why it’s profitable to enshittify candy like this. The only reason to have it is for the good taste
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good. While I don’t eat much good candy, I still eat some despite the higher price because it’s good. Aren’t people like this? Or do too many get stuck in then addiction and not realize it’s just no longer good enough to be worth it?
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good.
I pumped the brakes on a lot of things, including candy. Every once in a while when I try brands I had as a kid, I keep thinking something seems “off”, but I have little idea of what it is. This applies to cereal, too.
For cereal, I have a hard time getting past how small boxes are getting. How is it that I used to get cereal for the family and a box would last a while but now as a single person, most boxes cost way too much yet don’t last the week.
My selection of cereal is pretty limited these days, because I only select from the normal size, even if they’re now labeled “mega”. Cheerios are my favorite, and luckily they’re usually one of the few
The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.
Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.
Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.
No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.
There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.
Enshitification is the natural end result of treating companies as if they are sharks, that will die if they stop moving, instead of like people who have natural ups and downs. Our “anything other than growth is death” mindset by which companies are valued and run in spirit of is ridiculous. Its literally the societal equivalent of someone having a severe drug addiction. The underlying logic, or lack thereof, is the same: things cant always be better than they were five minutes ago. Refusing to accept that is how you end up destroying your body or destroying Americas favorite candy bar company or whatever else
In this case, I don’t understand why it’s profitable to enshittify candy like this. The only reason to have it is for the good taste
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good. While I don’t eat much good candy, I still eat some despite the higher price because it’s good. Aren’t people like this? Or do too many get stuck in then addiction and not realize it’s just no longer good enough to be worth it?
cheapflation, using crappier ingredients to lower production costs.
I pumped the brakes on a lot of things, including candy. Every once in a while when I try brands I had as a kid, I keep thinking something seems “off”, but I have little idea of what it is. This applies to cereal, too.
For cereal, I have a hard time getting past how small boxes are getting. How is it that I used to get cereal for the family and a box would last a while but now as a single person, most boxes cost way too much yet don’t last the week.
My selection of cereal is pretty limited these days, because I only select from the normal size, even if they’re now labeled “mega”. Cheerios are my favorite, and luckily they’re usually one of the few
The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.
Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.
Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.
No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.
There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.
Enshitification is the natural end result of treating companies as if they are sharks, that will die if they stop moving, instead of like people who have natural ups and downs. Our “anything other than growth is death” mindset by which companies are valued and run in spirit of is ridiculous. Its literally the societal equivalent of someone having a severe drug addiction. The underlying logic, or lack thereof, is the same: things cant always be better than they were five minutes ago. Refusing to accept that is how you end up destroying your body or destroying Americas favorite candy bar company or whatever else