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Late-stage capitalism ready to collapse on itself. When your production lines are perfectly efficient, no one make money but the top.
Then at some point, consumption will come to a halt. Robots will produce goods that nearly no one can afford, small service business will be bankrupted. And government will be powerless as billionaires don't pay taxes but they're the last class on Earth actually making money.
This is just an early sign. The whole system is ready to crash.
When a proper sandwich is 2,50 I don't mind paying at a restaurant. But when I have to pay 12,50 for a slice of bread with a single piece of cheese and some lettuce on it, I prefer to bring my own, thank you.
Stop eating avocado toast!
Wait, not like that.
I'd sure like to see a list of all those industries frugal people are "killing".
When a meal that doesn't even fill your stomach starts at $20 and there's a mandatory minimum tip of 30% at the kiosk it's not awfully enticing. After tax and a drink it's now $30 for something you could have just made yourself in most circumstances for $5.
And it will probably taste better, too.
As an antagonist to full time RTO, I delight in bringing my own lunch and eating it in the food court.
What does this have to do with age? It's class war.
The piss poor US income distribution is a massive factor.
This is also happening with reproduction
"Don't reproduce if you can't afford it"
But also
"Why are fertility rates falling into the abyss?"
And then get all "muh replacement theory" when parents from cultures where multi generational households are the norm are the only people that can afford to have kids.
I mean why are birth rates always the highest in the poorest regions? Makes you think that money likely has little to do with reproductive rates, and more along the lines of women gaining education and having access to family planning methods.
Poorer regions usually are more conservative too.
Which means that women are more likely to stay at home taking care of the kids. And if they do work, they do so part time. Which still leaves time to take care of the kids.
The regions with low birthrates usually have women working full time. And full time means 8h+.
I bet people would be having more kids if people that can work from home, worked from home. And if full time meant 6h instead of 8h+.
That way, instead of working husband + stay at home mom, we could have commuting parent and WFH parent.
With the added benefit of commuting parent having a shorter commute since there would be a lot less people commuting.
Nordic countries have lower overall working hours, and don't see increased birthrates. And make higher salaries. It's almost like when women become educated and have access to family planning methods, they don't have as many children.
Turns out it was the men that wanted the children the whole time. Which definitely tracks with my experience. Men want women to sacrifice for them.
A lot of what people miss is the importance of safety and security. People don't have kids when they reach a certain income level. They have kids when they are reasonably confident they can give their children a decent living.
A subsistence farmer in Subsaharan Africa can have a much more secure existence than the working poor of countries like the US. People are poor, but they live on land they own or at least have assured access to through shared community rights. They may not have much money, but they have security. They can have kids, and at the very least, the kids can always take over the farm from their parents. The parents probably want the kids to go get an education and be more successful than themselves, but at the very least, the kids will have no worse a life than the parents do.
Compare that to developed countries. You pay monthly for rent that can skyrocket at any time, paid for with a job that can disappear at any time. And I would say raising kids in a rural African village is probably feels a lot more reasonable than trying to raise kids in a studio apartment built in a car-dependent American suburb.
Might be less that the subsistence farmer is so secure and more that they need the kids as a retirement plan. Most of the countries with falling birthrates have some sort of national pension for old people.
Usually they have lots of kids so they have kids to help with the farm plus most of these countries are very conservative
My lunch from home tastes the way I want it, and it cost less, and it’s better for me…sooo yeah.
Prices have skyrocketed, quality has tanked.
Sorry, but I have a hard time buying a salad for $10 when I can grab the ingredients for 10 salads for about $5. And they'll be higher quality. Not browning lettuce with mayo sauce.
Would you like to leave a tip for the service of grabbing your pre-made salad from the refrigerator?
Sysco also is the food supplier monopoly. When you sign a contract with them you select what products they regularly stock for you to buy, and they heavily discount certain products they want to incentivize you to buy.
It's why everything tastes the same now and a lot of restaurants do sysco slop bowls.
It’s weird too because there is a burger place down the street from me that literally gets all of their ingredients locally. Buns from a local bakery, beef and potatoes from local farms, etc… A single patty combo with fries/tots and a drink is $13.79. Meanwhile down the street McDonald’s (I know McDonald’s doesn’t use Sysco but it’s the easiest burger comparison) is charging like $12.99 for a Big Mac combo that almost certainly has less beef in it and is nowhere near the same quality on any level in any capacity.
We are reaching a point where corporate overhead is so huge that it might actually bring back small businesses.
Note the pattern of how the people at the top of the economy continually blame the people at the bottom of the economy for everything going wrong.
They're pissed that the have nots aren't gleefully throwing more money at the haves.
Even if you donated all your money to billionaires and worked unpaid, they'd still demand more. The concept of 'enough' doesn't exist in capitalism.
Shit happens. If restaurants were more fiscally responsible and lives below their means, they would have been prepared for something like this.
I’m not paying $22 for a burger. I can spend $6 on the meat, $4 on buns, $3 on blue cheese, and I have all the other seasoning and condiments at home already. That’s 4 blue cheese 1/4 pounders for $13. Or trade out the blue cheese for a handful of mushrooms and some Swiss for about $15 total. $15 vs $88 plus tip.
They did this to consumers/the economy and now they’re complaining about the fallout.
At this point I only go out for sushi. For obvious reasons.
