Private equity: After paying millons for a company, got to find shortcuts to proffit… And make stakeholders happier.

I guess from now on, American company is not a sign of quality.

I’ve noticed this quite a bit. I have a couple tshirts I bought for $2 on clearance when I worked at JcPenis. They’re still good 15 years later. But anything I bought in the last few years just falls apart. The irony is, the tshirts I bought in Japan last year for maybe $8 each are built like tanks even though they’re made in China (Uni Glo lol).

We didn’t think it was our imagination.

Fucking Uniqlo, they used to have the best basics. All my underwear came from them. Of the pack I bought 8 years ago I still have undies, the more recently bought ones all started getting holes within a year.

The telos of Capitalism is to produce goods for cheaper and cheaper prices, which eventually leads to poor quality and disposable “goods”.

…or at that point, “bads”.

I say it so often that the people around me are getting sick of it: Nothing Works Anymore.

I’ve had this conversation with a few people in the last week. I’m fine paying for quality but I just can’t find it anymore. I’m just about at the point where it’s not worth buying anything new since it’s not going to last any longer than used.

A very sad topic but the website kept a really high quality!

They say buy from smaller brands, but the sources of resources and commodities often is the same. So the companies with the most buying power end up effecting the quality of other company products. More ways to get trickled on.

Time to hit the vintage shop. Find the Emo outfit from the early 2000s that was designed not to discintigrate after it left the shelf.

my last bag I bought was a leather bag, hand stitched by a real leather worker. I will never need to buy a new one as long as I care for it properly.

Hmmmm. Less departments? Heads of departments not qualified or educated for that area by any stretch of the imagination? Safety guidelines reduced to mere suggestions or deleted completely? Entire Global Pandemic Response system, in place mind you, burned to the ground. Cancer research a pipe dream. Gas over $4. Diesel fast heading to $7. You know where I’m going. Regulations that protected us and soaring prices that force and allow big business to charge more and put less into their products got us here - I think. Just sayin’.

I work in manufacturing and I have seen the quality of raw materials degrade substantially since covid times. We expected it to be a dip but no, it has just continued to get worse.

Natural consequence of capitalism.