[TboneS54]

The quality of everything is going down.

The value of the dollar has also been going down.

So now you're trying to make a product that *seems* as good as what we used to get, but that costs less to make as they're competing against cost but also shareholder profit expectations.

How do you generate "value" when the value of the dollar keeps dropping? Make a smaller product, make a cheaper product that still looks, smells, whatever like the original product.

As an example, Oreo, Cadbury, etc are going to be selling lab grown chocolate next year as that's, believe it or not, cheaper than paying basically slave labor to poor countries for their cacoa, then processing it, again, at slave wages.

That's how bad it is. It's not enough to export the labor for pennies or even slip in ingredients to boost yeild. They're gonna skip all that and just 3d print it basically (joke).

Prepare yourself for the coming future. It's bland, leased, fake, restrictive etc. But only for you, not the rich/political class ofc.