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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Harvest Moon Joghurts - I loved them, but now I'm heartbroken.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I like this because it references the concept of greed correctly.

Greed is when self interest gets irrational. Greed doesn’t maximize one’s own profit; greed maximizes one’s own profit today.

Real long term self interest means serving others consistently to create those healthy relationships that in turn serve oneself.

Greed is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Difficult when you're in the R&D department and you know that cost-cutting measures are the primary directive, but you still have to do your job in spite of the harm it could cause. I've met a lot of people with burnout in the food industry. I'm one of them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bro droppin Ferengi wisdom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Rule of Acquisition #10. Greed is eternal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Acquisition Rule.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unless there's (close to) a monopoly or all players in the market are acting accordingly. For products where simply not buying it anymore is not really a viable option, that greedy approach works out quite fine unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has been working out fine for the greedy so far, but is that really sustainable in the long term? At some point if greed isn't checked, there WILL be violence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless the greedy ones are also those with the biggest army and most effective weapons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Being the most powerful player isn’t sufficient to prevent opposition. A pufferfish is less powerful than a shark, but the shark still has to respect the pufferfish because the pufferfish can hurt the shark even as it dies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Even then we're starting to a see a situation where people just don't have money and end up not buying things even if they need them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I’ve mostly stopped buying middle isle grocery store items for this very reason. On the plus side I have been cooking more to make up the snack deficit. Tastes better for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve started buying precut, frozen hash browns (loose, not patties). Take a few minutes to cook them but I can have a big old plate of hash browns with salt, pepper, and ketchup any time I want. It’s like having a diner in my kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

When I started low carb I began to realize just how much of the middle store aisles are just different forms of starch and flavorings at a ridiculous markup.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Oh hey lets lower prices by 50% of what we marked up and then pat ourselves on the back all over social media for being saintly and lowering prices for the struggling masses.

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