Your toaster dies the second you unbox it. Pants rip on day one. The quality of everything is trash now. This is what bigheaded people call enshittification. Companies deliberately design products to break right after the warranty. This is due to the so-called “Hunt for Infinite growth.” Steady profits ain’t enough. They need MORE, so they skimp, shrink packages, and shove everything behind subscriptions. Infinite growth is a plague, and it hurts your personal finance.
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An early-2000s talk radio host in consumer advocacy & economics coined the term, “death of the pricetag”. Big business will strategically hide the true $1-$9 hamburger excess cost and successful sell a $0.99 hamburger. It’s far worse today. Not just hiding cost across other menu items – they implement: peak\demand pricing, seasonal \holiday pricing, they barrow huge loans and hold debt, and the worse discharge\writeoff debts.
I love your comment because it still holds evermore true today. Who even has huge capital, huge advertising, on-call debt lawyers, and teams of accountants. The big businesses whom all are standardizing and normalizing these “strategies”. Leaving zero chance small business survival. And permits, rent, employee pay, tax, etc would be nominal instead of impossible.