“Shrinkflation” is a cute branding for theft and class warfare.
They’re going all in on lowering your quality of life to contribute to AI data centers, and pretending it’s some natural market force.
This is prime clickbait by hooking onto an outrage sentiment but it doesn’t really deliver. I thought this place was gonna be smarter than reddit, and it is, but not by much. Ugh. I guess I should have stopped assuming I could ever go back to August again.
It’s not quietly making them worse. It’s pretty obvious.
well, for us
The problem is that tech companies have fewer choices than ever. They can either hurt performance or raise prices.
Time for less bloaty software, boys!
(also please stop shoving a webbrowser in every app. Or imitating them in your GUI framework)
Thank you for this wonderful meme, we shall share it to the rest of the world (a few discord meme channels)
Something’s got to give at some point here. Everything from computers to phones to cash registers to traffic signals need these components and are costing more due to the shortages, despite production remaining high.
The world is going to have to decide if it is worth putting the entire modern world on a pricing hold to funnel all the memory into speculative markets.
It’s fine, the free market has always worked in our best interest.
We’ll just pay out the nose or settle for less ram. Most consumers don’t need more than 8gb of ram anyway, see the macbook neo. And the world will keep turning.
The voting is done with money, and the money is in a few hands which right now say “yes, yes it is”. I don’t think this will last forever, though. Their free cash flow won’t allow it, and they are notoriously fickle.
The majority of the western world’s labour force is now comprised of middle management like roles that are trained to extract every gram of wealth out of
productsconsumers while they enact their intermediation role that was invented to avoid massive unemployment now that everyone (regardless of competence) has a uni degree. When MsCs started having to work food retail the powers that be should have woken up and regulated numerus clausu. They didn’t, so here we are. Karen from dumbfuqistan has a PhD in ML because Unis aren’t allowed to flunk dumb dumbs anymore so a degree is virtually worthless when selecting candidates for a job, despite the fact Karen’s competence wasn’t really evaluated at all during her PhD. Don’t get me wrong, unis are extremely important, but the onus of figuring out if people learned well enough during uni has transitioned from the educators to employers. So when a conman comes to sell AGI to Karen’s employer, Karen, CTO, with a PhD in machine learning, has no fucking clue the conman is full of shit and advises her peers and superiors to buy into it.And that is yet another symptom we’re living in late stage capitalism.
/rant
Wow. Calling out the source for the article as “semi-reliable” is quite the dick move.
