konceptjones
The one between three and three.
So I've been giving thought into why shit like ^^^ this happens.
The stock markets, and the need to appease investors are largely to blame.
The way things are going, it's become apparent that the whole stock market thing is unsustainable and is the reason why we, the consumer, end up with inferior products, shrinking sizes, and higher prices. Publicly traded companies have to constantly find ways to increase profits to appeal to investors who give zero shits on how any of it affects the product or service offered by the company; they just want their dividend and to see those share prices increase and that's it. The problem is that in order to do this, the company has to cut corners on whatever it's offering. This means that things like portion sizes begin to shrink, like the above video shows. Quality is affected as companies find ways to make the product cheaper, which is why none of these fast food companies taste as good as they once did as they're now using inferior cuts of meats and finding new ways to extract and use meats that would have been considered scraps 20-30 years ago and using chemical additives to increase shelf or storage life to maximize what gets sold against what gets scrapped. Eventually there's a human cost in this: Corporate owned stores start cutting back on the number of employees at each location to maintain profit levels or even increasing profit. Now you have places like McDonalds down to zero full time cashiers for the frontline, opting to replace them with a kiosk for orders unless you're paying cash, then someone from the back will take your order at the lone register up front. This extends to companies moving their call centers from the US to barely English speaking countries because they can pay those employees $2 an hour to take calls. Car manufacturers had this whole push to make SUV's because they're cheaper to build because they don't have to include all of the mandated safety equipment for passenger cars in them.
Inferior products, inferior service, inferior everything, all to make Wall Street happy.
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