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This guy just keeps trying to make money! How dare he increase profits!


You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade customer experience to appease shareholders. Nothing wrong with making a profit but making additional profit every single quarter is making the western world hostile to most people on average wages. It's too expensive to even live here with only a small percentage of people doing well under these circumstances.


The median US household income has increased significantly above inflation in the last few years and the lowest-income households have done significantly better than that because we reached "full employment" and that allows more job changes.

The largest price issue left is housing costs and that has nothing to do with "corporate profits", it's about bad land use regulations.

(Another funny thing about the "ever increasing corporate profits" argument is that it's literally anti-Marxist, as Marxism says the problem with capitalism is its profits continually /decline/ due to over-production.)


I have gradually replaced every light bulb in my house since 2017 with Philips Hue bulbs (most color, but some white only) and not one of them has flickered, become more dim, or failed. On the other hand, the "cheap $10" LED bulbs that I originally installed when first moving in - because I could not afford $50 a bulb - have all died and were part of my motivation for upgrading to Hue. This has also happened with the cheaper LED bulbs that my mother and in-laws installed, which lasted about a year. I wonder why the Hue bulbs last so much longer? They have been well worth the money and have become a staple of my home automation.


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