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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] 18 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yep.

Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. They have to make money. And how much money do they have to earn? MORE.

To grow, they offer good food at a reasonable price. It seems cheaper to put the drink machine out for customers to make their own drinks choices… but then we need those extra pennies, so behind the counter it goes, so customers don’t get free refills… then how can we source cheaper stuff, beef beans etc. there will be c constant demand to squeeze every penny from the system… Bob is making too much; better fsck his schedule until he quits so we can hire Alice as she make only minimum wage.

I’m not sure where napkins fall in the chain but yes the quality likely will continue to spiral down.

There are very few companies who recognize that there is a quality floor they should not go below. Where they acknowledge that we can’t get any worse, but they have to raise prices. And depending on the managers this cycle will continue back and forth

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Well you know all those boomers retiring ? They not doing work anymore but that's not the worst of it. Now they are spending that retirement money instead of stashing it.

So they're selling their stocks and now the companies need cash or demonstrate profit growth or else their share prices will tank.

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

It's because of the napkin gnomes. Nobody can ever catch them.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Republicans. They have blockaded any possible reform.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also everything breaks in five years at best. Doesn't matter how much you spend, basically everything is shit quality minimum viable products.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is why I never buy anything with lithium batteries, and my career is a computer repair technician. When the batteries die, they are often irreplaceable even by an expert. The entire inside of so many "smart" and wireless devices are drowned in industrial adhesive and can only be destructively disassembled. Watch ifixit's videos on air pods teardowns, they are impossible to repair.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Maybe they just didn’t restock the napkins? Dude went to Taco Bell and almost had an aneurysm

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The US has not set up a system that compensates properly. Most European countries have a security net in place when capitalism squeezes regular people. The US does not. You're on your own.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"WE" don't. You all might. Playing my role as a "consumer" I expect a certain level of customer service. If it doesn't meet my standard, I stop consuming.

If it isn't meeting your standard, stop.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a shame so much time has passed for the public to even recall how much Teddy fought for the average Joe blow public with his first deal. He fought the corporate overloads and they couldn't believe he couldn't be bribed like those before him and since.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. -Theodore Roosevelt

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We really can vote with our dollars. The issue is that we don’t (I’m point right at myself here).

Don’t buy the things, we probably don’t need em.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ask for napkins, if they won't give you any, pour a soda out on the counter and steal some of the paper towels they use to clean it up. (Actually don't, this method isn't nice for the workers)

It's going to be a fun next few years. Corpo dickheads keep trying to make another nickel next quarter, but more and more people have had enough. If food is too expensive, people will start stealing it, and the police can't be everywhere. Better hope there isnt 't some global pandemic or something that would suddenly make it acceptable to wear a mask in public.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Unionize, as an induvidual you are ultimatily powerless, as a collective not so much.

Modern society does everything it can to prevent you from collectivising, long work hours, low pay, private healthcare, high rent; all meant to make you work so hard you never have a chance to group up and demand better; resist it and organize.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The trick is they do this because "you" keep showing up. Spend literally 30-45 minutes to make a pile of taco fixings that will taste better, be healthier, and be cost competitive (if cooked in bulk).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the natural end for a free market. The big players take over and squeeze every drop of blood they can from the consumer class until the inevitable collapse or B&L buys the government.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its shitty only for the poor. Rich has the best life there. If you're rich , move to US Of A

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