[collaborative]

It honestly escapes me how these companies can be sustainable. The whole market is sooo inefficient. Companies also pay crazy money to appear in privileged positions in supermarkets shelves, and they will often pay crazy money for simply being in the supermarket at all

I just don't get where all the marketing money is coming from. Bootstrapping is clearly not an option these days

[mrguyorama]

Computers DOUBLED the productivity of the USA since the second world war. All that money went to a few people and groups, and none of it went to average people. For decades, companies have just been sloshing the same giant pile of cash around and around the Ads ecosystem.

That bag of chips did not cost $4 to make, not even a little close.