• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    The ultimate point of capitalism is to receive money for nothing. Shrinkflation is just the natural next step until a final subscription service for a wait-list spot to receive when the next batch of product is released.

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      I’ve seen the argument made in complete seriousness that it’s better for portion control so that people don’t overeat, particularly when it comes to fast food portions.

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      Someone with a 200gb Excel file plays with the variables until they can show short term profit and that just outputs into weird quantities.

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    So with shrinkflation, what’s the long term goal here? I mean, at some point you can’t make the product any smaller right? Surely we won’t be paying $75 for one microscopic piece of flour… right…?

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      At some point they reintroduce bigger sizes again while keeping the previous price. They can then go back to decreasing the size of the new big pack that is more expensive than the old big pack.

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Pay German prices for food with American quality control, on Turkish wages while working your ass off for the profits of your boss because low wages and high exploitation rates are said to be necessary to keep up in the great capitalist race to constantly grow and grow faster than in other countries.

    It’s probably true.

    Don’t worry, the market will allocate resources well. Such as to the 500th logistics company serving Western european countries where locals mostly don’t touch prole jobs, to building a new American style suburb in places where the only infrastructure is a roadside shrine, to start selling you shitty goods that make you addicted and Ill and to develop Poland to the point where it can start exploiting Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, global southerners, etc. instead of locals… just like western countries did 50+ years before!

    I fucking hate capital