u/Icy-person666

Now that business and Politics have hit some rather low lows morally and politically there seems to be nothing keeping companies from tearing themselves and their partners and rives up to the point approachhing if not bring about their collapse?

Why I have been pondering this in particular is how some of these moves to make subscribers or constant need for replacement when such moves are no longer possible. The current electronics shortages are a good example, my computer has been around since pre-covid, I don't want to deal with Microslop and my Computer while it's running Linux isn't going to last forever. My phone is also starting to glitch and I've lost about 50% of the new battery life.

So if my computer dies, will I be able to replace it with the memory shortage now that the processor shortage is over? How about my phone? If I can't replace one or both when they fail and a capable device can't be had, what incentive is their to keep paying ever more for services that can't be used? If I don't have a device I can't use the AI or see their advertising and I assume many others will be in the same position, how will the companies continue to have any value?

Likewise, many of our machines (I work in the food manufacturing sphere) are running also on processers and memory in short supply. During COVID we had trouble getting parts particularly electronics, we are still installing equipment that should have been installed five years ago, and more is on back order. So what happens when some of those key machines die and we can't get parts? We supply nationally so it's not going to be local shortages.

Looking at the global economy, just about any government is getting into or already is in deep financial problems so bailouts are just about off the table. So when Musk, Theil Bezos and Zuck have most or all the money, can the economy not collapse and all that "money" still end up not being worthless?

It looks to me like we are at end stage of Capitalism, in good part because enshitavacatin requires ever more consumerism and the folks at the top are consuming ever more and eventually consuming it all.

Am I on the right line of thought or am I missing something?

Management is shutting down manufacturing plants for safety checks and OSHA compliance checks as well as plant wide safety lectures. The incident was at a Dairy and they said there will be no further comments. Given the normally report all accidents and even have videos of some they show when it was caught by security.

Adding to the comments on clicklist in the warehouse/ DC one of our metrics is product tonnage shipped. Without adding another person or piece of equipment the announced effective today our requiremed production needs to go up 50% per week.

We have no say about what shows up or who gets what. So how do we ever hope to do this? We currently fill every order we have to the best of our ability so are we supposed to be shipping products that we don't have orders for? Supposed to fix any truck breakdown or no shows? Clearly management lives in a different reality.