Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
by bix6 on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:17PM
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Nobody cares that their TV is cheaper when it now smashes ads in your face while using your bandwidth to serve botnets and sends a heartbeat even when offline. Everything that actually matters, like good healthy food or youth sports, is increasingly expensive or shrinkflated.
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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
by inigyou on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:20PM
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It's because of rent. Rent keeps going up and this gets passed on to all people who buy things, live, or work, but it rarely flows the other way - rentiers spend all their rent acquiring more rent, not on productive things. And so you have this constant leeching away from the real economy.