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Re:Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Qua... by DangitBobby on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:49AM (#49020758)
Companies organize and consumers can't. Seems pretty obvious.
Re:Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Qua... by tekla on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:58AM (#49020856)
It's obvious because no thinking.

How do consumers lack the ability to choose what they want? Of course unless, you think they are dumb because they don't choose what YOU want them to choose.

Re:Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Qua... by DangitBobby on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:14AM (#49021063)
What? I said organize, I didn't say they can't make their own choices. Why are we pretending there's no such thing as the tragedy of the commons or other negative affects for uncoordinated groups at scale?

I also didn't say they were "dumb", I said they couldn't coordinate. So in addition to not thinking you didn't bother to read my comment.

Re:Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Qua... by danaris on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:33AM (#49022306)
Consumers can't choose what they want because what they want isn't on the market. All they can choose is what companies want to sell them.

Free Market Theory can only reveal people's preferences when you have a spherical market in a frictionless vacuum. In the real world, there are numerous confounding factors that make those ideas deeply counterproductive.