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cordlesslamp ,

My ex-favorite tea brands silently cutting 20% of tea bags in the box and raised the price 15%, while keeping the same sized box and make the printed weight and contents smaller and harder to find.

And people call me crazy for getting frustrated.

lseif ,

research “diaper inflation” for more

RaiIsNotYourGuy ,

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/44b7a9c0-43e6-423c-8f97-1ed8c91fcdb0.jpeg

penquin ,

I mean, this is what happens when you give these vultures the freedom to do whatever they want!

darthfabulous42069 ,

So I propose a solution:

We start and fund a non-profit organization designed to produce basic living essentials and sell it at the cost to manufacture, regardless of market pressures. Then we all collectively buy from this non-profit and have a functional means of production legally owned and controlled by the people.

Set up strict rules to ban anyone who has ever worked in any upper management position in any for-profit basic essentials producing company from ever holding any position of power in the non-profit. No one from the corporate world at all. No one from any position in state or federal government. No lobbyists or consultants or members of their think tanks or any of their goons.

Use open source designs for the factories and everyone in the community works together to automate them as much as is possible.

corship ,

Sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

I’m in.

darthfabulous42069 ,

I’m surprised no one here has organized something like this yet.

remus989 ,

I’m sure the ruling class would get rid of it pretty quickly.

darthfabulous42069 ,

How would they go about it, do you think? Is there a legal way such a thing could be shut down?

Squizzy ,

They banned collective bargaining, they can ban anything

itslilith ,
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You need a lot of money to start something like this, money that usually comes from investors who are expecting a return at some point. And if it gets started with too little funding, the big competitors can afford to sell at a loss for a while to force it out of business.

Something like this would have to be organized by a government, and consequently won’t happen under capitalism. Because if a government would be willing to go to that length, they could just as easily punish the companies currently profiting of off people’s misery.

nolight ,

I don’t really get where the money is coming from.

MycelialMass ,

By selling the products like any other manufacturer? The startup costs are the main issue, but people crowd source things all the time, no reason this couldn’t work in theory.

TwoGems ,
@TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

I’m down

Meowoem ,

Yes this is what I’ve wanted to do for a long time, I think it’s basically inevitable that it’ll happen eventually but an actual effort to make it happen faster would be such a positive thing in the world.

The reason I say it’s inevitable is because design tools are getting consistently better, hardware is cheaper than ever, and ever more useful stuff is being added to the commons. With ai assisted CAD and ai assisted manufacture we’re going to see so many amazing new open source designs getting built.

People are going to start moving away from for-profit designed homegoods like washing machines and printers because they’ll be able to get a community designed and tested product modified to their specific needs and tastes then have that fabricated at whatever local firm or tinkerer you want to give your business to.

unreasonabro ,

the world will end before this will happen. You’d get killed if you tried it. Good luck though.

Guster ,

Employee wage increase? Or is that calculated in operating expenses?

hemko ,

The amount of people making babies is degreasing, but the company must grow

darthfabulous42069 ,

Yes, the CEO needs more baby oil to keep the old gears turning.

droans ,

OpEx includes all salaries.

mycatiskai ,

Someone should have Robert Reich be their vice president. He could come out every second day and rip into some fucking companies for the shit they do to keep dragging the whole world down.

rookie ,
@rookie@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t realize Sam Reich’s dad was so cool

egerlach ,

I keep waiting for Robert Reich to end up on Game Changer somehow. I want to see the two of them make some shenanigans happen.

rookie ,
@rookie@lemmy.world avatar

Having him deliver the “I’ve been here the whole time” would be incredible haha

uriel238 ,
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Shareholder primacy is upheld by the state putting every publicly owned company antagonistic to its workers and customers, id est, the public.

This means the companies are forced to charge what the market will bear, and it’s the responsibility of the government to regulate prices to keep things affordable.

But this means lobbying by companies is an attack on the public. (It’s highly profitable to bribe officials and should be illegal. It also means officials who take lobby money are traitors to the public, the nation and their office, whether or not doing so is legal.

So the justification for bullets is there, and has been for several decades. We’re just not very good at seeing when we have nothing left to lose.

darthfabulous42069 ,

I wonder what it would take to convince people to fight for what is right.

SuperSpruce ,

This doesn’t tell the whole story. It seems like the aggregate cost of Kimberly Clark products fell by $75M. But perhaps the diapers did increase in cost? Further analysis is needed.

Shortstack ,

Do we know who is setting the price higher? Is it more like it’s 6% higher but so is everything else or more of the manufacturer selling to the storefronts at a higher cost thus forcing grocery stores to set the price higher by 6%?

Because it informs who we should be mad at

Not_Alec_Baldwin ,

Manufacturers set minimum prices for their products. Generally, suggested retail price and minimum advertisable price.

HawlSera ,

The inflation we are experiencing is artificial

Not_Alec_Baldwin ,

Feels pretty real to my bank account.

Gumus ,

Artificial doesn’t mean imaginary.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Save imaginary money for crypto

Rivalarrival ,

In other news, guillotine futures are up 20% in Q3.

sheogorath ,

Since the abandonment of gold standard it’s definitely artificial.

wtfhappenedin1971.com

NikkiDimes ,

Money is made up either way. It doesn’t matter if it’s tied to gold. The value of gold is made up, even if there’s a quantifiable physical amount of it. The problem here is a lack of regulation on capitalism. Or just capitalism tbh.

chicken ,

feel like

Probably less about emotional state and more about whether they have positioned themselves to be able to increase profits without losing marketshare. Afaik companies are focusing more on immediate profitability now that the interest rate stuff is making more speculative investments less attractive.

SVcross ,
@SVcross@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t worry the market will regulate itself. /s

PatFussy ,

BORING

oo1 ,

yeh critical (since they (electorates in my ciuntry since 1970s) empowered banks with all the investment decisions) that those banks see more short term profit (and balance sheet growth), from business loans to small businesses than mortgages, consumer credit, and AAA large corp debt.

Otherwise any potential regulation fron competition is strangled.

unfortunately banks seem to prefer morgtgages over a productive/competetive economy for some really hard to predict reason . . .

I think it was a big mistake to let commercial banks into morgages, i think consumer credit should be heavily limited, and there should be some small business/local limitations on banks, so that they invest some % directly in diverse competetive economy in the places near to where their creditors live. (I know hard to regulate, but harder than regulating a mutinational bank . . .?)

globalised unregulated banking doesnt seem to help with much to me - unless you live in China maybe.

HiddenLayer5 ,

They literally lock up the baby formula in a cage at my local grocery stores now. You know, so criminal scum with starving babies don’t pillage them.

If that doesn’t signal imminent collapse I don’t know what does.

STRIKINGdebate2 OP ,
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That isn’t a sign of collapse. That just shows that the average retailer would let a baby starve than lose a dime. Its a reflection of the morality that these people have. But of course they never examine themselves deep enough to have that realisation.

Son_of_dad ,

There’s a drug store chain near me that has a sign, if you need formula and can’t afford it, they’ll let you have their brand generic formulas for free. You just bring it up to the desk, let them know and they’ll scan it and give it to you.

Patches ,

Name and opposite of shame?

Son_of_dad ,

I didn’t wanna say cause I can’t remember if I’m right, but it’s in Toronto so likely not something in the states.

Deiv ,

GTA has a shortage of generic brand formula anyways, so good luck trying to find that on the shelf

Son_of_dad ,

Thankfully my kid is past formula age. Unfortunately he was on formula during that pandemic shortage shit show

ZoopZeZoop ,

We got lucky that my wife happened to be SAH and able to breastfeed. We know people who had issues breastfeeding and were really stressed about finding and paying for formula.

JonEFive ,

Praise is the word you’re looking did for I think

LoamImprovement ,

The devil’s advocate in me says that dealers often cut drugs with formula so there’s at least one other reason to keep it locked, but I don’t know how well that statement holds up under scrutiny, because it’s not like they check to see if you actually have a baby when you buy formula, and it’s probably not worth the risk to steal it as opposed to just buying it with the kind of return you’d get from diluting your product.

And yeah, I see razor blades, shampoo, and fucking laundry soap under lock and key in stores all the time. Nobody’s cutting drugs with any of those. Shit’s getting real fucked up.

Sigh_Bafanada ,

Also I’d much rather have drugs cut with baby formula than cut with fentanyl

lolcatnip ,

It’s not an either-or situation. Something like baby formula is only added as a filter. Fentanyl is far too potent to use as a filler. It’s added to other drugs to give a better high so users are less likely to realize they’re not getting what they paid for.

replicat ,

People likely are cutting their drugs with razor blades. Just not in the way you mean here haha.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I asked at Safeway and the guy told me it’s because people steal it and then try to return it for cash, not so much for starving babies. Same with the name brand laundry detergent that is now in a cage.

In the US, we have WIC (nutrition assistance for pregnant women, infants and children under 5) that covers formula for parents whose income is less than 185% of the federal poverty level. That does mean that parents who fall over the benefits cliff (make 186% of the fed poverty level) are seriously fucked.

This NYT article from 2005 says it’s also stolen to cut drugs, but the bigger thing is reselling it for profit. nytimes.com/…/baby-formula-the-locked-case-at-the…

rainynight65 ,

Formula tins have a tamper-evident seal.

Blackmist ,

I’ve heard the baby formula drug thing before, but I find it hard to believe you can’t mix it with something cheaper like regular powdered milk or flour.

A lot of this stuff is easily resellable down your local flat-roofed pub, and there’s practically no punishment for shoplifting.

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