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Re:The Fishy Death of Red Lobster by throwway120385 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:53PM (#40239221)
This is what people mean when they use the term soulless capitalism. The increasing financialization of everyone leads us to optimize for the things we can measure assuming those are the things that matter, and in the end the optimizations erase everything good.
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Re:The Fishy Death of Red Lobster by chiefalchemist on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:01PM (#40239367)
It's not the optimization per se, it's taking it too far, over-playing it to the point of removing the magic, the special sauce, etc.
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Re:The Fishy Death of Red Lobster by RunSet on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:26PM (#40239747)
> The founder of Costco told a CEO who wanted to raise the prices on Costco's hot dogs: "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdog...

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Re:The Fishy Death of Red Lobster by prepend on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:58PM (#40240132)
I’m still waiting for a story 20 years from now when they finally raise the hotdog price and the old CEO is 90 and kills the CEO who raised the price.

Or maybe it’s not the CEO he threatened, but a new one.

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Re:The Fishy Death of Red Lobster by selimthegrim on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:49PM (#40241207)
This sounds like a pitch for a Timecop sequel.
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