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Companies don’t make anything new anymore. All the amazing leaps in design and technology we’ve enjoyed over the last multiple decades are finished. They cost too much…a negative expense on quarterly report.
What’s cheap and effective? Shrinkflation. Cutting employee benefits. Stagnating wages. Decreasing quality. Removing employees and replacing them with AI or other automation. Cutting customer service. Forcing people to use apps. Finding new ways to unbundle, insert fees, or force another middleman between customers and what they want.
It’s a perverse Matrix, the “coppertop” is us, and they’re extracting everything they can from us to keep their system going and the line moving up.
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It's become "Life as a service", and they've tied everyone's retirement/pension to the continued existence and success of the system so everyone is too afraid to do anything about it and/or complicit.
Well, when people couldn't afford to work and were being paid in scrip, and the babies were hungry, they not only decided to strike, but also shed blood and died for it, and everyone fortunate enough to have 9-5 40s that pay the bills and look down their noses at everyone else, and are loss adverse might possibly consider the reason they have 9-5 forties are because of the people who worked dirty jobs and died for them.