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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Food, electronics, furniture, basically any good either generates profits or it is destroyed so it can't affect the profitability of other products. If anything seems to be a good deal and it's a new product, it's designed to fall apart so that you buy a new, better product.

Instant Pot, the company that brought pressure cookers to the mainstream in the US, went bankrupt. This was because the pressure cookers they made were too good, didn't breakdown enough, so they ended up devouring their own market potential because first-time customers were only-time customers. They were bought by private equity, guess what the new instant pots do now?

Capitalism is Ouroboros infinitely devouring itself because that's the only way to generate profit. It creates too many goods, since mass production is cheaper per unit than smaller production. It destroys the unsold products because they'd make the sold products worth less. It under pays labor, because that's the only way to get profits, but it crashes every decade or so because too much defaulted debt causes a trust crisis. We decapitate government competence, because effective government services deny capitalists markets they could expand into.

All of this waste. All of it. It's just there to rationalize why some assholes and their kids never have to work. That's it. They, like the fucking rest of us, value downtime and thought there was no way the collective us would allow them to get away it, so they created the most massive accounting scheme in the world to hide their blatant, massive lazy fuck shit. We're burning the world to cinders cause some people don't want to work, and they want to feel important about it, too.