My mum is allergic to apples and oranges. Apple is one of the cheapest juices. She gets periods of hypoglycaemia, most effectively treated with juice. The juices she's traditionally bought for this have slowly been replaced with stuff that is the same but the ingredients show it's mostly apple juice. It used to be that more than half of the juice in the grocery aisle would've suited her needs as there would be things like mango juice, pineapple juice, grape juice, etc. Now the mango juice has apple, the pineapple juice has apple, the grape juice has apple, and the berry punch has apple. I know it's a very niche situation for this one specifically, but it's something I've heard from other people with other allergies as well, anyone unlucky enough to be allergic to a cheap ingredient has seen their options in the grocery store get chipped away at as companies choose to substitute ingredients that were previously fine for cheaper ingredients that could cause serious reactions.
Yep I've noticed. The last few yrs actually, maybe back to the pandemic. But literally almost everything taste different or is made different. Flipping up charging, and as long as we keep buying they'll keep selling us less and less. But Ido remember Michael Obama made serving portions smaller, so more air. Our govt doesn't care about us. Preservatives and by-products baby
The problem is that maintaining the same amount of profit is considered a failure, success is only measured in increased profit. Infinite growth is impossible, and these are the resulting problems caused by that fact.
@@levansegnaro4637You mean the thing every country in the world had to do to offset a global pandemic? I don’t understand how people are seemingly forgetting this happened.
I swear I’ve been seeing this in clothing too. Linen blends are priced at the same items that full linen items once were, sweaters that are fully acrylic are charging wool prices, and now everything is full of synthetic fibers
And thrifting only works for so long. We'll eventually run out of good quality older stuff and it'll all be glorified plastic clothes and fast fashion crap.
Hell, I've even calculated that for my specific situation it would be way better value if I just take up sewing as a hobby. Even after buying a sewing machine and good materials I will be saving money after like 7 linen shirts or one(!) singular wool jacket. tf's next, weaving our own cloth?
I've also noticed something that I'd like to describe as fake or forced innovation. There's not really much to improve on a product that's already working as well as it reasonably can, but for the sake of sales and job security, will receive updates despite there not being any need for it. Let's take UA-cam for example, what really changed in the last few years besides advertisement business models? Not much. Yet there are people working in the UI department, releasing useless updates to change the look of UA-cam slightly. They round off the corners a little, change the colour of the progress bar just slightly or move around the buttons so you have to look for them after 20 years of them being in the same place. It's absolutely ridiculous. Now when the narrator says "please like and subscribe", the actual subscribe button underneath the video is highlighted, as if we couldn't find it before. It looks cool, but it's absolutely useless and is only there to give the people at UA-cam headquarters something to do. I can name a million things, like rain detectors on cars or having your phone tell you when your dishwasher is done. It's all useless "innovation".
The current UI update on mobile has made the app significantly worse and extremely buggy. I never seen youtube being so buggy to a point where you literally can't continue to watch videos because of it
As someone who has been on teams responsible for what you're complaining about, I'm not about to say I wasn't in charge of defending job security, but the testing conducted showed that small seemingly insignificant changes dramatically improved KPI's. Like sometimes by up to ~15%. I'm talking just something like a confetti animation in the right place makes a BIG difference on an aggregate user base. It may not change your personal habits, but it does change enough to where you can justify employing quarter million dollars per year developers who's only real output is changing the UI a bit or writing blog posts about things they tried and didn't work. Scaling things is weird and sometimes backwards to what you would expect.
The term there is the Rot economy. And there is a wonderful piece digesting it here, using the fake innovation of AI as an example: ua-cam.com/video/T8ByoAt5gCA/v-deo.html
And they actually took away the ability to change resolution preferences precisely, so now you have to adjust for each video if you’re concerned about lag and buffering while traveling. This has probably led to a few fatal accidents now that I think more about it. Need to go to the advanced tab. Lol
@@GunsForEveryoneIsaacAnd I don’t think any administration would change it to be honest. Companies have big influence in the US and Canada, funding politicians’ campaigns so they can’t really implement laws against them or those companies will fund their political rival. It sounds dystopian but that’s capitalism.
I can clearly track the fact my dollar has halved in the past 10 years. I live very minimally. Buying whats cheapest to survive and skimping on luxuries, not paying anything for subscriptions or entertainment. And I spend twice what I did 10 years ago to survive. I dont need experts or economists to lie to my face and tell me Im actually only paying 18% more than 10 years ago. I have the bank records to say otherwise.
yeah legit, the idea that it's partially our fault can only be held by the kind of person who is able to get subscriptions and forget about them until they auto renew. many people do not do that, like you I do not use any subscription services or anything like that, my only expenses are rent, food and clothing. and it has gotten so much more expensive.
Businesses have been fracturing relationships with their employees (layoffs, not giving proper raises, etc) as well as fracturing relationships with their customers. None of this eroded trust is good for society.
Yeah, Volkswagen for example straight up fired a lot of their staff and wanted to close down one of their factories in Germany as they "couldn't afford it" while paying out 2.5 Billion to shareholders just weeks before. It's ridiculous.
@@Pyxis10 Funny enough it looks like properly functioning communism and socialism to. Seems like you let corrupted people in to rule (which always happens) you get the same result. Only plus is capitalism you don't start starving and with zero tech advancements. Yes, all of that is historically verifiable and well documented. There needs to be a better system.
Man UA-cam really didn't want anyone to see this video. I was wondering when someone would finally make a video on this topic. You deserve way more subs man!
Companies aren't limited to inflation or shitflation; they're like "why not both???" I bought a Dell Laptop barely over a year ago for $700 and the damned hard drive completely failed after an update. Or companies that used to have high quality but relatively affordable things now do the opposite with low-quality expensive garbage.
idea: why not introduce a forum/app where everyone can share and warn other people about products that are basically a rip off. Like for example, you buy a bag of chips and you still have an older bag of the same brand and price, so you take a pic comparing both and post it. Or if a product just constantly gets more expensive in a short time frame, document it and post it. We gotta fight corporate greed!
I blame useless MBA people & stock owner focused world view that was started by Jack Welch (GE CEO). And don't get me started with the "companies cannot invest without stock owners" If companies would divert the money from divident payments into investing into the operation, there would be much less need for bank loans and stock listings. Companies should be allowed and recommended to save up money for a larger investment (a new factory)
high corporate taxes in the states (70%+) used to incentivize internal investment and better benefits for employees. also stock buy backs were illegal before reagan
Companies are good. Issue is shareholders and "shareholder" means hedge fund corporation. Every major US brand that fell flat in recent decades was bought by a hedge fund. Well, that's part of the issue. Monopolization is also huge problem, as it stopped working but consumers don't want, or maybe can't, get better, more expensive items. Myself, I'm always choosing what's less "shitty" quality item, and what's not a total rip-off not worth its price... Annoying to say the least.
It’s funny how many people are completely clueless to this. I’m so happy I live in a place where I’m *still* allowed to grow my own food in my backyard. Or rather in my parent’s backyard, because there’s no way I’ll ever make enough money to buy a house. Sorry for the tangent. Remember to plant and save trees 🌳- they are literally keeping you alive and well 24/7
Tldw: Incomes have been so stagnant for so long that companies can no longer compete on quality, and instead compete on price, market cap, and new avenues of exploitation.
I do wonder how much of this is caused by each level of the supply chain worsening their standards and that it isn't just hard for consumers to find quality products but every level of the supply chain is impacted by the downstream ripple effects of those below them. I know that this is at least partially the case for people buying fabric to make clothing. They had been using the same company for decades and it got worse recently, they talked to the wholesaler for fabrics who said that they themselves noticed that they were having greater losses in storage because the quality was worse than it used to and that there wasn't a single supplier they could recommend buying from them that would definitely do better and that they themselves were searching for new factories to buy from but the factories themselves were saying they were having issues with the quality of the their wool, cotton, linen etc.
Good vid. I would just add the whole issue of planned obsolescence, with companies designing things to break asap so we buy more, which is basically the whole business model of consumerist capitalism
@@CTimmerman it's not a bug, though; it's a feature of the current economic system. Any company that would produce stuff which doesn't break down will go out of business. From fashion to light bulbs, the imperative is SELL MORE
@@asafcohen3272 Or innovate. Soon Chinese labor cost inflation might move sock production to Africa, freeing labor for construction that doesn't crush people and persecuting those responsible for shoddy construction. Once we have fully automated luxury space communism, we can watch the noble savages duke it out on holodisplays while feeding on mega buckets of snacks.
@@timop6340 I don't think Duracell and Hengwei have the same parent company, but management can be less of a roadblock in some companies. Also, my comment about UBI disappeared, @asafcohen3272
Who would have thought that building a society and with that the whole economy around ppl always trying to gain on each other as much as possible will lead to here ? Maybe, greed is not good after all.
Unfortunately, the alternative to capitalism is mass famine and the most horrific authoritarian regimes in human history. The solution is not trying to legislate morality, as that leads to authoritarianism, but as a society to embrace the values that lead some of us to give employees generous holiday bonuses, paid family leave, charitable giving, and general kindness.
My Chinese stuff without a middleman has been better than my Chinese stuff with a local middleman so far. Local middlemen often don't listen to their people.
"Now need to be labeled with price per kilogram as well" What backwards country hasn't had this forever? How in the heck are you supposed to compare prices if that information is not available. And it's the best argument against bag of chips vs air stupidity you see talked about. Buy per kilograms, not the size of packaging.
I refuse to believe there are a mere 71 subs. (72 now). This is so comprehensive, bringing big terms we're never taught about in school into a way we can consume and, even if it makes no difference immediately, feel more comfortable with, courtesy your help of explaining these otherwise unexplained/inaccesible topics. In a slightly unusual way of a compliment, I hope your channel grows so advertisers fight for exposure to your audience, which I hope will be large.
Greed IS the problem with almost everything. Almost any political or economic system would work, and we’d all live in near-utopia, if no one wanted yachts and 10 mansions. We are finally at a technological point where abundance is possible. I have little doubt humans will disappoint me, but it’ll be interesting to see what they choose in this lifetime.
Greed is an attribute of an entire culture. Not just wealthy people have greed. But I agree with you that basically any economic system would be fine if the culture was in order.
Last few times went to shop for some clothes for me. Total garbage quality products everywhere. All these shops full of stuff giving impression of wealth and choice in reality nothing but garbage selling points.
I remember when cheese its were good. They had cheese baked in them and would turn a paper towel slightly greasy. Now they are cardboard. Much of fast food has the same issue too which is why I stopped eating it
When you got to cars I instantly thought of Jeep. They used to be cheap cars that wouldn’t bankrupt you when it inevitably broke. Now they charge up to six figures, break if you sneeze on them, and aren’t cheap to take care of.
At first when asked to subscribe I was like: "Maybe If I like the other videos" but then I looked at his channel and I realized I already watched all of them.
the worst one for me was milky bar chocolate, I swear to god, that shit was so good when I was a kid, now it just tastes like white advent calendar chocolate, it just hits different, and not in a good way
So in order to counter shitflation as a purchaser we have to bring an insanely long of checklists, rivalling those of the mechanics, just to buy a car. Have always been. In steel construction here in my nation, we have a very proud tradition of reducing 1mm (or 0.01mm) of base material thickness every few years, with branding names and every standards brokered to justify the change. It's pretty insane when a supplier I trusted for years suddenly measures differently. Literally drove me insane with paranoia for a few weeks.
This phenomenon is why I have to buy testing equipment to buy ANY electronics I haven't previously bought. Even stuff I previously bought some batches are of significantly worse quality but I can easily return them as I know what it should be. Like I no longer care what they advertise. I see if others have already tested it and if not. I first check if it's a scam. It looks like not a scam, I buy it alongside testing equipment. If it fails testing, both the electronics and the testing equipment gets returned.
Except the prices are not staying the same lol they are still definitely going up. Also, check out the vitamin content and things like instant oatmeal packets or cereals. Pop-Tarts took out a bunch of vitamins, as did Quaker instant oat packets and a ton of other foods
Was out of the workforce during first year of COVID. When I came back, I noticed standards and expectations had decreased dramatically. We couldnt get people to even show up for work. Quality processes that were strong previously just kind of fell apart…
I mean it's no surprise, so many people had the rude awakening of how replaceable they are at work due to mass layoffs. People now know that it's far more profitable to job hop and to not make work a priority anymore
Great video! Many companies have gone and replaced their traditional emulsifiers (sunflower and egg) with cheaper Soy Lecithin which upsets my digestive system and leads to insomnia. Now I can't eat most chocolate, bread etc. On the up side, I've cut most processed food out of my diet 🙃
Has anyone else noticed that car fuel has also lowered in quality? Look at the exhaust tips of random cars, old and new models, they are now always covered in black soot and when people accelerate there is a slight puff of grey smoke. Normally this would indicate a problem with the car but it’s happening to most cars now. Leading me to believe that the quality of fuel is not the same.
That is why i have reviewed my consumerism to the minimum. Old pc, old games. Used car? Used woofers. Housing? Sharing with friends... food? Cooked, natural... and its being fun, actually...
If you start cooking at home, and then furthermore underlying these products/companies entirely by buying bulk ingredients, your wallet takes a breather at the cost of your effort. But you need to put in the love and effort to want to go down this life-path.
A lot of blame should be placed on consumers. So many people are clamoring to buy the next shiny new thing regardless of need. Alternatively, they're just oblivious to poor quality manufacturing or design. A product that used to last a lifetime now lasts 5 years, and the consumer's response is "well 5 years isn't bad for the $XX that I paid" - SMH. Companies are just providing consumers with the junk that they seem to enjoy.
You seem to forget that this worldview is profitable for companies and was literally promoted by them. It's like saying that "if you drink your own piss you'll get healthier" (Real shit btw someone believes that) and then blaming people for actually listening to you. Example: plastic and glass bottles. Coca cola had thousands of bottling facilities and you could give back your used cola glass bottle and get money back from it! So bottles are being reused and less waste was made. But then the plastic came. Coca-Cola encouraged people to buy plastic packaging, promoting it saying that it weights less, more durable and you can just crumble it and throw it away. And throw away people did - what's the point If it's cheap anyways? So while consumers do have SOME blame to take, it was companies that encouraged them to do so and are now shifting the blame, while keeping up the same stuff for profit. And don't even start with micro plastics... Btw did you know that plastic recycling is basically a huge scam? You only really can do it once or twice if I recall correctly. And there is glass that was invented around 80s that is just as durable - so you can make bottles a bit lighter while making them more durable. Creators from GDR approached western companies and were sent away - they didn't want unbreakable glass.
Poor quality merchandise killed my appetite for new stuff decades ago. It ain't getting no better. The best things in life really are free anyway. Sunny beaches caint be beat.
Quality Street chocolates are literally awful now. The tin used to weigh i think it was 5lb or 7lb and used to last all christmas and into new year. The chocolates were luscious and rich and the toffees (i left them till last as not my favourite) were really creamy and soft. It is now 700 gramms i think and i bought a tub and they were so bad i just threw them in the bin. The company was taken over by USA company Craft years ago. They made a big hoo-ha a few years ago that the wrappers were "recyclable" it's a good job as they got "recycled" after i tried to eat a few. Even if dogs could eat chocolates i don't think i would subject them to it.
One key take away of all of this: We should definitely all learn to make and do more stuff by hand. Shitty food? Learn to cook! Shitty Products - buy stuff used, or repair your old goods. Shitty services? Learn to live without them or switch to opensource alternatives! The world of open source and free ressources demands a lot of its users, but it also incredibly rewarding!
Yes, learning to cook seems like a solution to food being shit until you realize that you still have to get all those quality ingredients together somehow… (Saying that as someone who has been diversifying their cooking skills as of late)
This is why I never buy new things, all my stuff is 20+ years old. Things are poorly made and aren’t designed to the same standards. I can’t do anything about food though. If Hershey adds even more wax to their chocolate flavored wax ideally you could switch brands, but they all do that, Cadburry, Nestle, Ghirardelli, it’s all chocolate flavored wax.
Ironically, here in the states our chocolate needs to have cocoa butter in it by law. So hersheys actually can't make their stuff palm oil like some of the budget brands in Europe and elsewhere. Kinda a bad example of shitflation in the states that is only that way thanks to some good ol' fashioned regulations!
@@Vickynger Then enjoy cacao in other ways than chocolate. I like to put honey, choclate nibs and nuts ot nut butter in my mouth. All together, then chew. It's like eating a chocolate candy, but better. Or enjoy hot chocolate.
On an broader view we are hurrying to dismantle everything keeping things up and running. Cutting off "excess" meaning redundancies (failsafes) and alternative options (increased structural integrity). And the day when the one tiny bit too much is chipped off all comes crashing down there will be no plan b and there is no viable option to get everything back up again.
I think it's because that asteroid is coming "Apophsis". I think that, because alot of companies decisions don't even make sense. My husband works for a company that is dismantling itself, as you say. Things begins to make sense if you say to yourself "oh theres an asteroid that will hit earth in 2029." "Were not telling anyone, so, hit autopilot and feed the populations low grade poisionous food untill then, at that time, we will re-assess when the damage is done."
We all understand that it is always pretty normal people that are making decisions (not abstract „entities“. corporations, businesses or agencies or states do not have hands or mouths, they ain’t doing anything). We know ourselves. It’s simple like that. There are good ones, there are bad ones and everything in the middle. Edit: perhaps we should always remember the names of people that decided something rather than just brand names. Imagine a world where people look up and remember the name of real people and judge them based on their decisions.
What's hilarious is, Alex Hormozi perfectly describes this rat race to the bottom in his book, $100 Dollar Offers. Cheaper goods and services means thin margins for innovation. Interesting to see that massive corporations are starting to feel the negative effects of catering to demand in a price-based market.
Cars - I'd pay extra to have those driver annoyance features! When my kids were looking to buy a house, I advised them to buy something that was at least 10 years old and never to buy off the plan. They took my advice and got a very well-built house.
Such a great video. I was expecting you to be a large channel. Then I started worrying that you might be a gpt bot so I started to read the comments. Whatever the case I'm subscribed
I actually find that the games comparison is so powerful and turns the narrative around because there is one specific area that is THRIVING more than ever before, producing higher quality at better prices products and more content: indie games. I don't believe it is the consumer shopping at temu who is at fault, but the legally enforced maximization of profit that is to blame, especially in a world where rapid innovation has slowed down.
"Now this video isn’t about regular inflation or even shrinkflation, it’s about shitflation, which is probably costing you a lot more than these other 2, while also hurting your health, wasting your time, and just being a massive inconvenience." worthy of a ghidorah meme.
11:10 Hi-Fi Rush was a low-budget game that was a financial success, it's a bad example and the studios closure had more to do with other factors at play
Thank you! Thank You! I thought I was going mad and just being over nostalgic. So many things are just meh now. Had some "Smarties" chocolates the other day. Used to love them it was just good milk chocolate in a crispy shell. I had some and went "why do they now taste chalky and dry?" Bloody horrible. They have adulterated everything. Just wait a few years and all old products will have a "premium" version that is the same formula as the old days. Another one for you Muller fruit corner. The Piedmont cherry version in the 80s was lovely, really rich and creamy and with real cherries. Now it is watery and thin and has a cherry mush that tastes like it hasn't seen a cherry.
More Perfect Union just recently released a video about how the greed of business conglomerates is threatening peoples lives as CVS staff is overworked and stretched thin. Highly recommend it.
As packages and value propositions get smaller, so does my shopping list. I still eat, just the variety of what I buy has declined, companies will feel this sooner rather than later, I'm not the only one.
The “upgrade” from a 2021 to a 2022 GTI was a $4k MSRP increase, plus a horrible downgrade in interior quality, cheap plastic everywhere. Shitflation at its finest!
A couple years ago I stopped eating One Protein Bars because the brownie flavor for some reason just started tasting like crap. It went from tasting like an actual brownie to an actual bar of turd. I immediately noticed because I’ve been eating these things for 3 years for breakfast. Stopped eating them after a 2 weeks and haven’t had them since.
The worst one for me has been Bridge Mixture. It was my favourite thing, it's been my comfort snack for years, I loved it so much. A couple years ago they just straight up changed it overnight - what used to be different kinds of fondant (like Irish cream and orange), Turkish delight-like jellies, and occasional peanuts, covered in either milk or dark chocolate... is now solely just small, weirdly citrus flavoured gummies covered in cheap tasting milk chocolate, along with way more peanuts, and that's it. That's all that's in the new "Original Bridge Mixture". It's cheaper now in literally every way, and I refuse to buy it. But it's also been impossible to find a decent replacement for. The only thing that came close was a local store brand, but they seem to have recently discontinued it along with some other candy. Likely due to cost. So the enshittification continues.
Don’t jinx it. Late stage capitalism is why most of these things happen, and there’s not much people could do about it since companies have influence within the government. But hey, at least we don’t live in socialism! /sarcasm
I eat Marie Calendar as well as Healthy Choice, and i haven't noticed any changes in the meat. However I definitely notice some of the meals giving fewer meatballs / nuggets and probably smaller patties. That might not be so bad if they gave more vegetables but unfortunately I think what you get more of is just rice and pasta.
The sheety building / construction is REALLY prevalent in Florida. I'm watching the new """"homes""""" being built in 2-3 weeks and being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. They're made out of what looks like plaster, quickly/poorly mixed concrete (if that) which has tons of air in it, and plywood that will fall over like a toothpick in a hurricane.
Gosh I hate this so much and I felt like I was the only one noticing it. Everything produced nowadays aside from a few items has been severely reduced in just about every area. This is a serious issue with one of the core principles of the United States which is buying and selling. They know the general consumer is about as smart as Patrick’s pet rock so it’s easy to pull the wool over the average consumers eyes without them noticing.
That conclusion is shit too. People have always been willing to buy a lower quality product at a lower price. ALL companies are raising prices beyond the need to ensure a small product. It's not us.
You got how inflation is calculated wrong: It's an index anchored to a base year, not a percentage change from each year to the consecutive year. The BLS FAQ says that the base year(s) used as a reference are 1982-1984. The way you describe it, prices would compound like a compound interest rate, and they would have been out of control a long time ago.
we have to shop at 2 or 3 different stores to save a handful of cents on all the basic shit we constantly have to buy. i don't even think it saves much (if any at all) due to gas prices.
I got my license right before Covid hit and it’s felt like a sad joke since in regards to gas ahah, immediately decided driving was not fun and only a necessity for work, I refuse to waste my money for drinking or fun
In a world where everything is less than optimal, where poor craftmanship is the norm, people will be ready to pay an extra for what used to previously be basic standards instead of premium. Dunno, just random thought here, you can build a lot by yourself and share with friends doing the same to tackle that. Education is worthless nowadays but knowledge and capabilities aren t (depends on what field) so self employment and alternate currencies are a major bonus for those who know how to bypass this mess.
I really appreciate you pointing this out in such a clear way. I feel a little less crazy now. I've been having so much grief over how difficult it is to get good medical care and I didn't even connect it to this phenomenon, I just assumed it was bc of doctors' poor training (focusing more on prescribing meds and such), but this makes a lot of sense.
This is what people were saying over the internet that many of the food they like now taste bad like chocolate 🍫 but it was dismissed that its because many are trying to eat healthy since it was mostly non liberals complaining and eating healthy is now very trendy outside of liberals. But for services it might have something to do with DEI and perhaps the reason why “Karens” was heavily demonized as a psyop so people just accept the lower standard.
the problem is that publicly traded companies have to always make more profit than they did before. the line MUST always go up, even if the company is already hugely profitable. More value needs to be extracted until the company cant anymore and dies. Nothing can stay profitable and usable.
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Housing prices are not computed in the CPI neither in any of its equivalents worldwide because a hike in the base interest rate just to control the house prices would actually make those debt-financed goods more expensive to the end consumer, thus defeating the whole purpose of the monetary policy
if you think shrinkflation is the reason that countries require labeling with price/kg, then hmmm, must've been going on for at least a decade. back home in EU we have that type of labeling for a long time.
I bought a large frozen pizza recently, and when I looked at the ingredients list, I didn't find any cheese on there. What I did find however, was "cheese analogue containing vegetable fat". Safe to say I never got that particular (admittedly really cheap) brand of pizza again. On the occasion that I do actually get a frozen pizza, i try to get a quality one at least.
Man, wtf? This is your first video? I already subscribed, you got very clearly the most usual mistakes most people on either end of the political economics spectrum get respectively wrong about inflation, chapeau. Looking forward to more great quality content.
All the crap food delivery app services are reminders that food delivery was not done before because people were not willing to pay enough to have delivery drivers.
Food labeled with a "New improved recipe!" usually just improves the company bottom line.
you're so mentally ill lol
Yup
There was only one food I had that had an *actual* new recipe, and it turned worse. A brand of cereal I stopped buying.
Lion used to be my favorite candybar in the late '80s i think. Maybe my taste changed but today it's Snickers.
Truth! What happened to that old canard that competition improves products? End stage baby.
My mum is allergic to apples and oranges. Apple is one of the cheapest juices. She gets periods of hypoglycaemia, most effectively treated with juice. The juices she's traditionally bought for this have slowly been replaced with stuff that is the same but the ingredients show it's mostly apple juice. It used to be that more than half of the juice in the grocery aisle would've suited her needs as there would be things like mango juice, pineapple juice, grape juice, etc. Now the mango juice has apple, the pineapple juice has apple, the grape juice has apple, and the berry punch has apple. I know it's a very niche situation for this one specifically, but it's something I've heard from other people with other allergies as well, anyone unlucky enough to be allergic to a cheap ingredient has seen their options in the grocery store get chipped away at as companies choose to substitute ingredients that were previously fine for cheaper ingredients that could cause serious reactions.
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I get pimples from palm fat. In Germany, sunflower oil often gets replaced by palm fat. What's next? Crude oil?
That’s a problem most people don’t have, so they accept the shitflation. I love that word now.
My mom has a moderate safflower oil allergy and the oil suddenly was everywhere.
@@kemoni221I like skimpflation more because I don't have to censor it.
"If you've noticed the food you're eating doesn't taste as good as it used to, you aren't going crazy"
THANK YOU!
Yep I've noticed. The last few yrs actually, maybe back to the pandemic. But literally almost everything taste different or is made different. Flipping up charging, and as long as we keep buying they'll keep selling us less and less. But Ido remember Michael Obama made serving portions smaller, so more air. Our govt doesn't care about us. Preservatives and by-products baby
One big reason used is that your tastebuds change as you age.
McDonald's still good tho
The problem is that maintaining the same amount of profit is considered a failure, success is only measured in increased profit.
Infinite growth is impossible, and these are the resulting problems caused by that fact.
Exactly!!! 🎉🎉🎉
This comment is the ultimate answer.
Still surprising the masses aren't doing a Bastille. And I heard the Netflix subs plan with ads was a success. Oh wait...
Printing off trillions of dollars in the last few years definitely has nothing to do with it, right? 😂
Yep. The tragedy of the commons is real.
@@levansegnaro4637You mean the thing every country in the world had to do to offset a global pandemic? I don’t understand how people are seemingly forgetting this happened.
I swear I’ve been seeing this in clothing too. Linen blends are priced at the same items that full linen items once were, sweaters that are fully acrylic are charging wool prices, and now everything is full of synthetic fibers
And they try to market this crap material as being "moisture wicking" or some other nonsense that I don't want.
And they all fall apart within a year it’s awful
My mom went to look for fully cotton clothes for my very elderly grandma, and she said the highest they were able to find in America was 50%!
And thrifting only works for so long. We'll eventually run out of good quality older stuff and it'll all be glorified plastic clothes and fast fashion crap.
Hell, I've even calculated that for my specific situation it would be way better value if I just take up sewing as a hobby.
Even after buying a sewing machine and good materials I will be saving money after like 7 linen shirts or one(!) singular wool jacket.
tf's next, weaving our own cloth?
I've also noticed something that I'd like to describe as fake or forced innovation. There's not really much to improve on a product that's already working as well as it reasonably can, but for the sake of sales and job security, will receive updates despite there not being any need for it. Let's take UA-cam for example, what really changed in the last few years besides advertisement business models? Not much. Yet there are people working in the UI department, releasing useless updates to change the look of UA-cam slightly. They round off the corners a little, change the colour of the progress bar just slightly or move around the buttons so you have to look for them after 20 years of them being in the same place. It's absolutely ridiculous. Now when the narrator says "please like and subscribe", the actual subscribe button underneath the video is highlighted, as if we couldn't find it before. It looks cool, but it's absolutely useless and is only there to give the people at UA-cam headquarters something to do. I can name a million things, like rain detectors on cars or having your phone tell you when your dishwasher is done. It's all useless "innovation".
The current UI update on mobile has made the app significantly worse and extremely buggy. I never seen youtube being so buggy to a point where you literally can't continue to watch videos because of it
As someone who has been on teams responsible for what you're complaining about, I'm not about to say I wasn't in charge of defending job security, but the testing conducted showed that small seemingly insignificant changes dramatically improved KPI's. Like sometimes by up to ~15%. I'm talking just something like a confetti animation in the right place makes a BIG difference on an aggregate user base. It may not change your personal habits, but it does change enough to where you can justify employing quarter million dollars per year developers who's only real output is changing the UI a bit or writing blog posts about things they tried and didn't work.
Scaling things is weird and sometimes backwards to what you would expect.
The term there is the Rot economy. And there is a wonderful piece digesting it here, using the fake innovation of AI as an example: ua-cam.com/video/T8ByoAt5gCA/v-deo.html
I get a new phone every five years. No reason to get them more often than that. They're good enough. 👍
And they actually took away the ability to change resolution preferences precisely, so now you have to adjust for each video if you’re concerned about lag and buffering while traveling. This has probably led to a few fatal accidents now that I think more about it. Need to go to the advanced tab. Lol
Not to mention the pandemic destroyed smaller competitors and big businesses have had increasingly free reign to buy up competition.
Thanks Government!
The "pandemic" didn't do that. The government and its lockdowns did.
@@GunsForEveryoneIsaacAnd I don’t think any administration would change it to be honest. Companies have big influence in the US and Canada, funding politicians’ campaigns so they can’t really implement laws against them or those companies will fund their political rival. It sounds dystopian but that’s capitalism.
I can clearly track the fact my dollar has halved in the past 10 years. I live very minimally. Buying whats cheapest to survive and skimping on luxuries, not paying anything for subscriptions or entertainment. And I spend twice what I did 10 years ago to survive. I dont need experts or economists to lie to my face and tell me Im actually only paying 18% more than 10 years ago. I have the bank records to say otherwise.
Im scared of the future as the wages can’t keep up !
yeah legit, the idea that it's partially our fault can only be held by the kind of person who is able to get subscriptions and forget about them until they auto renew. many people do not do that, like you I do not use any subscription services or anything like that, my only expenses are rent, food and clothing. and it has gotten so much more expensive.
These days the bank records you get, especially online, also lie. So you actually only know because you've actually been paying attention.
Businesses have been fracturing relationships with their employees (layoffs, not giving proper raises, etc) as well as fracturing relationships with their customers. None of this eroded trust is good for society.
Yeah, Volkswagen for example straight up fired a lot of their staff and wanted to close down one of their factories in Germany as they "couldn't afford it" while paying out 2.5 Billion to shareholders just weeks before. It's ridiculous.
Rich people at the top of companies (executives, board members, and large shareholders) don’t care.
Yeah, but that is a long term consequence and "smart" people don't care about those!
I can’t wait until people get fed up and fight back.
Irrelevant. Their control is total and every possible solution or alternative is unthinkable and evil to 99% of the population.
Shout out to Ea-nāṣir and his crappy copper!
That's him getting scammed not inflation
@@mrroger-t6mthat’s what shit-flation is
Kudreeeeeeeah
That man's spirit will never be forgotten
Surprising how we're bringing downfall in the name of profit.
Profit is good as long as i profit.
@@HansTheGeek so human welfare doesn't matter then?
it's the tinyhats in charge not "we". Where do you think they're looting all the stolen money to?
All I see is the failure of capitalism.
@@Pyxis10 Funny enough it looks like properly functioning communism and socialism to. Seems like you let corrupted people in to rule (which always happens) you get the same result. Only plus is capitalism you don't start starving and with zero tech advancements. Yes, all of that is historically verifiable and well documented. There needs to be a better system.
Man UA-cam really didn't want anyone to see this video. I was wondering when someone would finally make a video on this topic. You deserve way more subs man!
Just signed on. Hope this blows up soon.
Companies aren't limited to inflation or shitflation; they're like "why not both???" I bought a Dell Laptop barely over a year ago for $700 and the damned hard drive completely failed after an update. Or companies that used to have high quality but relatively affordable things now do the opposite with low-quality expensive garbage.
That's ur fault buying a dell
@@Trombonemusic765the whole point is that in the past, buying a dell wasn't a bad decision, but now it is and it also costs more than it used to
idea: why not introduce a forum/app where everyone can share and warn other people about products that are basically a rip off. Like for example, you buy a bag of chips and you still have an older bag of the same brand and price, so you take a pic comparing both and post it. Or if a product just constantly gets more expensive in a short time frame, document it and post it. We gotta fight corporate greed!
I mean there's probably a subreddit or something for that sort of thing already.
@@mach2223 I think its a great idea but I bet the companies will be fast in suing for defamation
You have no real alternatives so it won't matter.
@yaelz6043 thats the mindset the elites want you to have
I blame useless MBA people & stock owner focused world view that was started by Jack Welch (GE CEO).
And don't get me started with the "companies cannot invest without stock owners" If companies would divert the money from divident payments into investing into the operation, there would be much less need for bank loans and stock listings. Companies should be allowed and recommended to save up money for a larger investment (a new factory)
high corporate taxes in the states (70%+) used to incentivize internal investment and better benefits for employees. also stock buy backs were illegal before reagan
@@Megasteel32 Damn, are there ANY problems in today's america that wasn't caused by Reagan?
@@Megasteel32 Ugh. It's always either Reagan or Thatcher who's ruined things!
Companies are good. Issue is shareholders and "shareholder" means hedge fund corporation. Every major US brand that fell flat in recent decades was bought by a hedge fund.
Well, that's part of the issue. Monopolization is also huge problem, as it stopped working but consumers don't want, or maybe can't, get better, more expensive items. Myself, I'm always choosing what's less "shitty" quality item, and what's not a total rip-off not worth its price...
Annoying to say the least.
Yes exactly, and companies should be allowed to go bankrupt when they don't have a viable business model.
It’s funny how many people are completely clueless to this. I’m so happy I live in a place where I’m *still* allowed to grow my own food in my backyard. Or rather in my parent’s backyard, because there’s no way I’ll ever make enough money to buy a house.
Sorry for the tangent. Remember to plant and save trees 🌳- they are literally keeping you alive and well 24/7
eat trees
Tldw: Incomes have been so stagnant for so long that companies can no longer compete on quality, and instead compete on price, market cap, and new avenues of exploitation.
I do wonder how much of this is caused by each level of the supply chain worsening their standards and that it isn't just hard for consumers to find quality products but every level of the supply chain is impacted by the downstream ripple effects of those below them. I know that this is at least partially the case for people buying fabric to make clothing. They had been using the same company for decades and it got worse recently, they talked to the wholesaler for fabrics who said that they themselves noticed that they were having greater losses in storage because the quality was worse than it used to and that there wasn't a single supplier they could recommend buying from them that would definitely do better and that they themselves were searching for new factories to buy from but the factories themselves were saying they were having issues with the quality of the their wool, cotton, linen etc.
Interesting. Do you have a source to dig deeper?
Good vid. I would just add the whole issue of planned obsolescence, with companies designing things to break asap so we buy more, which is basically the whole business model of consumerist capitalism
When that happens, i make a public note and switch brands.
@@CTimmerman it's not a bug, though; it's a feature of the current economic system. Any company that would produce stuff which doesn't break down will go out of business. From fashion to light bulbs, the imperative is SELL MORE
@@asafcohen3272 Or innovate. Soon Chinese labor cost inflation might move sock production to Africa, freeing labor for construction that doesn't crush people and persecuting those responsible for shoddy construction. Once we have fully automated luxury space communism, we can watch the noble savages duke it out on holodisplays while feeding on mega buckets of snacks.
@@CTimmermanso you switch to another brand within the same parent company and expect different results?
@@timop6340 I don't think Duracell and Hengwei have the same parent company, but management can be less of a roadblock in some companies. Also, my comment about UBI disappeared, @asafcohen3272
Who would have thought that building a society and with that the whole economy around ppl always trying to gain on each other as much as possible will lead to here ? Maybe, greed is not good after all.
Because modern American consumerism was agreed on globally 3 weeks ago...
@@droopy_eyes hey pal, the video might be three weeks old, but the issue of capitalism ruining things has been discussed for about 300 years now.
@@Jane-oz7pp Socialism is better, but somehow those leaders tend to commit terrorism. Maybe because they used violence to become the leader.
Unfortunately, the alternative to capitalism is mass famine and the most horrific authoritarian regimes in human history.
The solution is not trying to legislate morality, as that leads to authoritarianism, but as a society to embrace the values that lead some of us to give employees generous holiday bonuses, paid family leave, charitable giving, and general kindness.
@@jurassicturtle3666 Norway has nice social services though. Even prisons seem less dystopic than today's "social" media disappearing comments.
Depressing.
That is capitalism in general.
My Chinese stuff without a middleman has been better than my Chinese stuff with a local middleman so far. Local middlemen often don't listen to their people.
"Now need to be labeled with price per kilogram as well" What backwards country hasn't had this forever? How in the heck are you supposed to compare prices if that information is not available. And it's the best argument against bag of chips vs air stupidity you see talked about. Buy per kilograms, not the size of packaging.
I refuse to believe there are a mere 71 subs. (72 now). This is so comprehensive, bringing big terms we're never taught about in school into a way we can consume and, even if it makes no difference immediately, feel more comfortable with, courtesy your help of explaining these otherwise unexplained/inaccesible topics. In a slightly unusual way of a compliment, I hope your channel grows so advertisers fight for exposure to your audience, which I hope will be large.
Well, it is my first video, thanks for the kind words :)
Yeah, too good for a first timer, something fishy going on. Probably a CIA and/or north korean psyop .
Wait what, this was at 71 subs a month ago? Holy fck, look at it now. Still small but...
Greed IS the problem with almost everything. Almost any political or economic system would work, and we’d all live in near-utopia, if no one wanted yachts and 10 mansions.
We are finally at a technological point where abundance is possible.
I have little doubt humans will disappoint me, but it’ll be interesting to see what they choose in this lifetime.
Central banking needs to go away and the cabal that runs it to have abundance.
so nothing to do with creating money for political whims
Greed is an attribute of an entire culture. Not just wealthy people have greed. But I agree with you that basically any economic system would be fine if the culture was in order.
@@jebediahkerman8245 do you have any idea how fucking stupid you sound?
Last few times went to shop for some clothes for me. Total garbage quality products everywhere. All these shops full of stuff giving impression of wealth and choice in reality nothing but garbage selling points.
I remember when cheese its were good. They had cheese baked in them and would turn a paper towel slightly greasy. Now they are cardboard. Much of fast food has the same issue too which is why I stopped eating it
When you got to cars I instantly thought of Jeep. They used to be cheap cars that wouldn’t bankrupt you when it inevitably broke. Now they charge up to six figures, break if you sneeze on them, and aren’t cheap to take care of.
i am over 30 and my entire life i remember supermarkets havaing to label kg prices.
happy to be here before this channel blows up.
78th sub here saying hi!
Same, it feels like one of the writers of wendover or something
@@seatyourself7082 133th here 🎉
Couple of weeks late to the party here!
At first when asked to subscribe I was like: "Maybe If I like the other videos" but then I looked at his channel and I realized I already watched all of them.
the worst one for me was milky bar chocolate, I swear to god, that shit was so good when I was a kid, now it just tastes like white advent calendar chocolate, it just hits different, and not in a good way
Well, that's life now, never buy another bar again, and the tide will move against their favorite.
Exactly, like that cheap, waxy Easter candy…🤢
So in order to counter shitflation as a purchaser we have to bring an insanely long of checklists, rivalling those of the mechanics, just to buy a car.
Have always been. In steel construction here in my nation, we have a very proud tradition of reducing 1mm (or 0.01mm) of base material thickness every few years, with branding names and every standards brokered to justify the change.
It's pretty insane when a supplier I trusted for years suddenly measures differently. Literally drove me insane with paranoia for a few weeks.
the era of free tendies are over, its time for rrrrrrrrrrevoluuuuuuutioooooon!!!!!!
This phenomenon is why I have to buy testing equipment to buy ANY electronics I haven't previously bought. Even stuff I previously bought some batches are of significantly worse quality but I can easily return them as I know what it should be.
Like I no longer care what they advertise. I see if others have already tested it and if not. I first check if it's a scam. It looks like not a scam, I buy it alongside testing equipment. If it fails testing, both the electronics and the testing equipment gets returned.
Being able to read nutritional labels is one of the most useful skills I've learned, and even then I'm always suspicious of them 😅
Now they raise their prices AND give you less.
Except the prices are not staying the same lol they are still definitely going up. Also, check out the vitamin content and things like instant oatmeal packets or cereals. Pop-Tarts took out a bunch of vitamins, as did Quaker instant oat packets and a ton of other foods
Was out of the workforce during first year of COVID. When I came back, I noticed standards and expectations had decreased dramatically. We couldnt get people to even show up for work. Quality processes that were strong previously just kind of fell apart…
I mean it's no surprise, so many people had the rude awakening of how replaceable they are at work due to mass layoffs. People now know that it's far more profitable to job hop and to not make work a priority anymore
Great video! Many companies have gone and replaced their traditional emulsifiers (sunflower and egg) with cheaper Soy Lecithin which upsets my digestive system and leads to insomnia. Now I can't eat most chocolate, bread etc. On the up side, I've cut most processed food out of my diet 🙃
Has anyone else noticed that car fuel has also lowered in quality? Look at the exhaust tips of random cars, old and new models, they are now always covered in black soot and when people accelerate there is a slight puff of grey smoke. Normally this would indicate a problem with the car but it’s happening to most cars now. Leading me to believe that the quality of fuel is not the same.
American fuel is universally laughed at all around the world, it wouldn't even be legal to sell in the EU
That is why i have reviewed my consumerism to the minimum. Old pc, old games. Used car? Used woofers. Housing? Sharing with friends... food? Cooked, natural... and its being fun, actually...
If you start cooking at home, and then furthermore underlying these products/companies entirely by buying bulk ingredients, your wallet takes a breather at the cost of your effort. But you need to put in the love and effort to want to go down this life-path.
A lot of blame should be placed on consumers. So many people are clamoring to buy the next shiny new thing regardless of need. Alternatively, they're just oblivious to poor quality manufacturing or design. A product that used to last a lifetime now lasts 5 years, and the consumer's response is "well 5 years isn't bad for the $XX that I paid" - SMH. Companies are just providing consumers with the junk that they seem to enjoy.
You seem to forget that this worldview is profitable for companies and was literally promoted by them. It's like saying that "if you drink your own piss you'll get healthier" (Real shit btw someone believes that) and then blaming people for actually listening to you.
Example: plastic and glass bottles. Coca cola had thousands of bottling facilities and you could give back your used cola glass bottle and get money back from it! So bottles are being reused and less waste was made. But then the plastic came. Coca-Cola encouraged people to buy plastic packaging, promoting it saying that it weights less, more durable and you can just crumble it and throw it away. And throw away people did - what's the point If it's cheap anyways? So while consumers do have SOME blame to take, it was companies that encouraged them to do so and are now shifting the blame, while keeping up the same stuff for profit. And don't even start with micro plastics...
Btw did you know that plastic recycling is basically a huge scam? You only really can do it once or twice if I recall correctly.
And there is glass that was invented around 80s that is just as durable - so you can make bottles a bit lighter while making them more durable. Creators from GDR approached western companies and were sent away - they didn't want unbreakable glass.
Poor quality merchandise killed my appetite for new stuff decades ago. It ain't getting no better. The best things in life really are free anyway. Sunny beaches caint be beat.
Quality Street chocolates are literally awful now. The tin used to weigh i think it was 5lb or 7lb and used to last all christmas and into new year. The chocolates were luscious and rich and the toffees (i left them till last as not my favourite) were really creamy and soft. It is now 700 gramms i think and i bought a tub and they were so bad i just threw them in the bin. The company was taken over by USA company Craft years ago. They made a big hoo-ha a few years ago that the wrappers were "recyclable" it's a good job as they got "recycled" after i tried to eat a few. Even if dogs could eat chocolates i don't think i would subject them to it.
DIY, torrent and so on.
These are the solutions you can apply on an individual level.
how am i gonna torrent a can of tuna????
@@VickyngerSteal. If we are given the choices of starve or steal, then it is not a choice at all.
@@VickyngerSwitch to long pork. The uber wealthy are often well fed and thus are better meat.
@@Vickynger You wouldn't download a tuna.
One key take away of all of this: We should definitely all learn to make and do more stuff by hand. Shitty food? Learn to cook! Shitty Products - buy stuff used, or repair your old goods. Shitty services? Learn to live without them or switch to opensource alternatives! The world of open source and free ressources demands a lot of its users, but it also incredibly rewarding!
Yes, learning to cook seems like a solution to food being shit until you realize that you still have to get all those quality ingredients together somehow…
(Saying that as someone who has been diversifying their cooking skills as of late)
This is why I never buy new things, all my stuff is 20+ years old. Things are poorly made and aren’t designed to the same standards.
I can’t do anything about food though. If Hershey adds even more wax to their chocolate flavored wax ideally you could switch brands, but they all do that, Cadburry, Nestle, Ghirardelli, it’s all chocolate flavored wax.
DIY. You can buy excellent cacao powder.
@@Coromi1 literally who has the time for that
I smell BS
Ironically, here in the states our chocolate needs to have cocoa butter in it by law. So hersheys actually can't make their stuff palm oil like some of the budget brands in Europe and elsewhere. Kinda a bad example of shitflation in the states that is only that way thanks to some good ol' fashioned regulations!
@@Vickynger Then enjoy cacao in other ways than chocolate. I like to put honey, choclate nibs and nuts ot nut butter in my mouth. All together, then chew. It's like eating a chocolate candy, but better. Or enjoy hot chocolate.
Thank you for making this video. I hope your channel blows up. I'm officially your 85th subscriber.
On an broader view we are hurrying to dismantle everything keeping things up and running. Cutting off "excess" meaning redundancies (failsafes) and alternative options (increased structural integrity). And the day when the one tiny bit too much is chipped off all comes crashing down there will be no plan b and there is no viable option to get everything back up again.
I think it's because that asteroid is coming "Apophsis". I think that, because alot of companies decisions don't even make sense. My husband works for a company that is dismantling itself, as you say. Things begins to make sense if you say to yourself "oh theres an asteroid that will hit earth in 2029." "Were not telling anyone, so, hit autopilot and feed the populations low grade poisionous food untill then, at that time, we will re-assess when the damage is done."
Thanks for making this video, covers some hugely important points, just wish the algorithm could push it to a few million more people.
Back in 2009 2010 it was called "quality fade". Shrinkflation was called "creative packaging"
"Unfortunately, a lot of these changes ended up being anything but temporary."
Yeah - that was by design.
The decline in quality all around has bothered me the most out of these high prices.
We all understand that it is always pretty normal people that are making decisions (not abstract „entities“. corporations, businesses or agencies or states do not have hands or mouths, they ain’t doing anything). We know ourselves. It’s simple like that. There are good ones, there are bad ones and everything in the middle. Edit: perhaps we should always remember the names of people that decided something rather than just brand names. Imagine a world where people look up and remember the name of real people and judge them based on their decisions.
What's hilarious is, Alex Hormozi perfectly describes this rat race to the bottom in his book, $100 Dollar Offers. Cheaper goods and services means thin margins for innovation. Interesting to see that massive corporations are starting to feel the negative effects of catering to demand in a price-based market.
Cars - I'd pay extra to have those driver annoyance features! When my kids were looking to buy a house, I advised them to buy something that was at least 10 years old and never to buy off the plan. They took my advice and got a very well-built house.
Such a great video. I was expecting you to be a large channel. Then I started worrying that you might be a gpt bot so I started to read the comments. Whatever the case I'm subscribed
I promise I am a real boy!
I actually find that the games comparison is so powerful and turns the narrative around because there is one specific area that is THRIVING more than ever before, producing higher quality at better prices products and more content: indie games. I don't believe it is the consumer shopping at temu who is at fault, but the legally enforced maximization of profit that is to blame, especially in a world where rapid innovation has slowed down.
"Now this video isn’t about regular inflation or even shrinkflation, it’s about shitflation, which is probably costing you a lot more than these other 2, while also hurting your health, wasting your time, and just being a massive inconvenience."
worthy of a ghidorah meme.
How is this your first video. Good quality but I cant help but too wonder if there is something strange going on here.
I am an industry plant 😉
Damn the industry plant is self aware
(no but for real this is extremely corporate looking lmao)
11:10 Hi-Fi Rush was a low-budget game that was a financial success, it's a bad example and the studios closure had more to do with other factors at play
Thank you! Thank You! I thought I was going mad and just being over nostalgic. So many things are just meh now. Had some "Smarties" chocolates the other day. Used to love them it was just good milk chocolate in a crispy shell. I had some and went "why do they now taste chalky and dry?" Bloody horrible. They have adulterated everything. Just wait a few years and all old products will have a "premium" version that is the same formula as the old days. Another one for you Muller fruit corner. The Piedmont cherry version in the 80s was lovely, really rich and creamy and with real cherries. Now it is watery and thin and has a cherry mush that tastes like it hasn't seen a cherry.
More Perfect Union just recently released a video about how the greed of business conglomerates is threatening peoples lives as CVS staff is overworked and stretched thin. Highly recommend it.
I love More Perfect Union.
74 subs for a video this well made? WHO ARE YOU??
39th Sub and 39th Like!
The quality of these videos are as good as other channels with millions and millions of subsribers, you're gonna be big.
As packages and value propositions get smaller, so does my shopping list. I still eat, just the variety of what I buy has declined, companies will feel this sooner rather than later, I'm not the only one.
The “upgrade” from a 2021 to a 2022 GTI was a $4k MSRP increase, plus a horrible downgrade in interior quality, cheap plastic everywhere. Shitflation at its finest!
The company I work for is guilty of this.
I would love a small house, even a 1 or two bed but they don't make them unless it's a condo or house in a box that I need to buy land for.
Endless HOA increases 😢
@richardscathouse ya that's an issue too, also why I don't like condos cause they all have condo associations.
Homestead a cabin in the wilderness until you get evicted. Some areas still have wild horses for free transportation if you're up for it.
I broke out into laughter when at 9:35 you say quality and show a Tesla
Well i saw your youtube sponsor video, and now im hooked
Thanks for the comment :) Plenty more videos coming up!
A couple years ago I stopped eating One Protein Bars because the brownie flavor for some reason just started tasting like crap. It went from tasting like an actual brownie to an actual bar of turd. I immediately noticed because I’ve been eating these things for 3 years for breakfast. Stopped eating them after a 2 weeks and haven’t had them since.
The worst one for me has been Bridge Mixture. It was my favourite thing, it's been my comfort snack for years, I loved it so much. A couple years ago they just straight up changed it overnight - what used to be different kinds of fondant (like Irish cream and orange), Turkish delight-like jellies, and occasional peanuts, covered in either milk or dark chocolate... is now solely just small, weirdly citrus flavoured gummies covered in cheap tasting milk chocolate, along with way more peanuts, and that's it. That's all that's in the new "Original Bridge Mixture".
It's cheaper now in literally every way, and I refuse to buy it. But it's also been impossible to find a decent replacement for. The only thing that came close was a local store brand, but they seem to have recently discontinued it along with some other candy. Likely due to cost.
So the enshittification continues.
A subscription for heated seats in a car you bought and owned? 😂 What next? a subscription to use the elevator to get to my apartment
Your toilet will be internet connected and require a subscription to flush.😢
Don’t jinx it. Late stage capitalism is why most of these things happen, and there’s not much people could do about it since companies have influence within the government. But hey, at least we don’t live in socialism! /sarcasm
I just had a Swanson's Salisbury Steak (dont' judge me), and I swear to God they're making these things with horse meat now.
Always have been
@@thex2thaz If that's the case, than they've switched to something cheaper than horse.
Maybe reconstituted insect proteins?
get banquet
I eat Marie Calendar as well as Healthy Choice, and i haven't noticed any changes in the meat. However I definitely notice some of the meals giving fewer meatballs / nuggets and probably smaller patties. That might not be so bad if they gave more vegetables but unfortunately I think what you get more of is just rice and pasta.
Maybe not horse meat but they are adding soy protein to the steak. Yummy 🤢
I was here before this quality channel was discovered by the masses. I wish you all the best going forward!
thanks for the kind words :) 2,000+ views now so I am pretty happy with that!
The sheety building / construction is REALLY prevalent in Florida. I'm watching the new """"homes""""" being built in 2-3 weeks and being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. They're made out of what looks like plaster, quickly/poorly mixed concrete (if that) which has tons of air in it, and plywood that will fall over like a toothpick in a hurricane.
Same with beauty’s supply’s, hygiene, and cars
Tech commentator Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshitification” to describe the decay of platforms like Amazon or Uber.
The old man walking across the side walk.
S**tflation has a family-friendly name. It's also known as skimpflation.
Nobody is talking about breaking up monopolies so we can have an actually free market again.
Gosh I hate this so much and I felt like I was the only one noticing it. Everything produced nowadays aside from a few items has been severely reduced in just about every area. This is a serious issue with one of the core principles of the United States which is buying and selling. They know the general consumer is about as smart as Patrick’s pet rock so it’s easy to pull the wool over the average consumers eyes without them noticing.
Prices going up is a symptom of inflation, not inflation itself.
I havent been able to find a good leather belt in like 20 years
That conclusion is shit too. People have always been willing to buy a lower quality product at a lower price. ALL companies are raising prices beyond the need to ensure a small product. It's not us.
100%. When McDonald’s was more affordable it just seemed self aware. Now it just comes off as arrogant and desperate
I cried about this exact topic when I took shrooms
Quality down, prices up! Just another sign of the decay
Capitalism moment.
You got how inflation is calculated wrong: It's an index anchored to a base year, not a percentage change from each year to the consecutive year. The BLS FAQ says that the base year(s) used as a reference are 1982-1984. The way you describe it, prices would compound like a compound interest rate, and they would have been out of control a long time ago.
we have to shop at 2 or 3 different stores to save a handful of cents on all the basic shit we constantly have to buy.
i don't even think it saves much (if any at all) due to gas prices.
I got my license right before Covid hit and it’s felt like a sad joke since in regards to gas ahah, immediately decided driving was not fun and only a necessity for work, I refuse to waste my money for drinking or fun
In a world where everything is less than optimal, where poor craftmanship is the norm, people will be ready to pay an extra for what used to previously be basic standards instead of premium. Dunno, just random thought here, you can build a lot by yourself and share with friends doing the same to tackle that. Education is worthless nowadays but knowledge and capabilities aren t (depends on what field) so self employment and alternate currencies are a major bonus for those who know how to bypass this mess.
I really appreciate you pointing this out in such a clear way. I feel a little less crazy now. I've been having so much grief over how difficult it is to get good medical care and I didn't even connect it to this phenomenon, I just assumed it was bc of doctors' poor training (focusing more on prescribing meds and such), but this makes a lot of sense.
This is what people were saying over the internet that many of the food they like now taste bad like chocolate 🍫 but it was dismissed that its because many are trying to eat healthy since it was mostly non liberals complaining and eating healthy is now very trendy outside of liberals. But for services it might have something to do with DEI and perhaps the reason why “Karens” was heavily demonized as a psyop so people just accept the lower standard.
the problem is that publicly traded companies have to always make more profit than they did before. the line MUST always go up, even if the company is already hugely profitable. More value needs to be extracted until the company cant anymore and dies. Nothing can stay profitable and usable.
Housing prices are not computed in the CPI neither in any of its equivalents worldwide because a hike in the base interest rate just to control the house prices would actually make those debt-financed goods more expensive to the end consumer, thus defeating the whole purpose of the monetary policy
if you think shrinkflation is the reason that countries require labeling with price/kg, then hmmm, must've been going on for at least a decade. back home in EU we have that type of labeling for a long time.
Nice reference to my favorite cuneiform tablet: The Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir !
I bought a large frozen pizza recently, and when I looked at the ingredients list, I didn't find any cheese on there. What I did find however, was "cheese analogue containing vegetable fat". Safe to say I never got that particular (admittedly really cheap) brand of pizza again. On the occasion that I do actually get a frozen pizza, i try to get a quality one at least.
It’s eating McDonalds for lunch because it’s cheap, and then you feel like crap.
Man, wtf? This is your first video? I already subscribed, you got very clearly the most usual mistakes most people on either end of the political economics spectrum get respectively wrong about inflation, chapeau. Looking forward to more great quality content.
All the crap food delivery app services are reminders that food delivery was not done before because people were not willing to pay enough to have delivery drivers.