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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The amount of people on Reddit who shill for companies like EA and Activision is shocking.

Once wrote a comment on the lines of 'sadly, British gamers mostly have terrible taste in video games, 90% of us don't give a shit about anything unless it's GTA, FIFA or Call of Duty. We literally reward companies for shitty consumer practices.'

Most of the replies I got were calling me an asshole and were acting like I'm trying to police what people can like/dislike.

But still, Electronic Arts make record-breaking profits because... EA Sports: It's In The Game (you bought last year)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Any platform you find corporate asshole lickers. They are the worst.