If inflation continues at 1-3% and there isn’t an sea change in the way the currency works during that period, in 975 years time £10 would be equivalent to a tiny fraction of a penny today.
Busted never did manage that 7th album…
*I’ve been to the year 3000*
*Not much has changed but* straws are made of even thinner paper and they disintegrate in 30 seconds
Same bags though
What about your great, great, great, Grandaughter?
Sorry but you are a liar
And I’d still be giving the cunts out for free, fuck corporate.
Maybe the OP’s lost crypto has shown up by the year 3000- whereupon they can treat themselves to a *free* carrier bag.
This is one of those little things that I feel like a madman about because of how much I feel it can be extrapolated out into a big conspiratorial economic theory.
I feel like the carrier bag prices is a really strong indication of the way companies have shifted over the years from competing to be good value and offering small gratuities to competing to see how much profit they can churn out of every product.
Bags used to be included as a free little gratuity.
But, single use plastics were increasingly an issue, so the bag tax came in. Small tax to pay on any non-biodegradable bag.
People, were fucking FURIOUS about it. Ridiculous! 5p for a BAG!? But it’s not a bad idea, it was a good way to help cut down on plastic waste.
But at first it was literally just that, the tax. And in the years since the price you pay for the bags has increased dramatically. The tax has gone up too, but not anywhere near as much.
Morrisons charge 40p for a cheap paper bag that will cost them less than 1p to produce and the single use bag tax has only gone up in the time since, but only to 10p. So near enough 30p on each of those bags is profit for Morrisons.
The bag tax was only introduced in 2015. So literally in the space of 10 years, it’s gone from a thing that used to be provided for free to something with a considerable profit margin.
All seems like small stakes, but the fact people were furious about the 5p they HAD to charge in 2015 and 10 years later people largely don’t think about the fact they’re now charging 8 times that for profit is a great indication of how corporations can make changes happen if they just do it slowly enough and power through the outrage.
And how “slowly enough” isn’t actually that slow.
That’s how they get away with increasing prices, shrinkification and enshittification on all scales of the market.
They make the products worse value, a little tiny bit at a time. Just enough that people are pissed off, but not *too* pissed off.
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And wages are still stagnant
If inflation continues at 1-3% and there isn’t an sea change in the way the currency works during that period, in 975 years time £10 would be equivalent to a tiny fraction of a penny today.
Busted never did manage that 7th album…
*I’ve been to the year 3000*
*Not much has changed but* straws are made of even thinner paper and they disintegrate in 30 seconds
Same bags though
What about your great, great, great, Grandaughter?
Sorry but you are a liar
And I’d still be giving the cunts out for free, fuck corporate.
Maybe the OP’s lost crypto has shown up by the year 3000- whereupon they can treat themselves to a *free* carrier bag.
This is one of those little things that I feel like a madman about because of how much I feel it can be extrapolated out into a big conspiratorial economic theory.
I feel like the carrier bag prices is a really strong indication of the way companies have shifted over the years from competing to be good value and offering small gratuities to competing to see how much profit they can churn out of every product.
Bags used to be included as a free little gratuity.
But, single use plastics were increasingly an issue, so the bag tax came in. Small tax to pay on any non-biodegradable bag.
People, were fucking FURIOUS about it. Ridiculous! 5p for a BAG!? But it’s not a bad idea, it was a good way to help cut down on plastic waste.
But at first it was literally just that, the tax. And in the years since the price you pay for the bags has increased dramatically. The tax has gone up too, but not anywhere near as much.
Morrisons charge 40p for a cheap paper bag that will cost them less than 1p to produce and the single use bag tax has only gone up in the time since, but only to 10p. So near enough 30p on each of those bags is profit for Morrisons.
The bag tax was only introduced in 2015. So literally in the space of 10 years, it’s gone from a thing that used to be provided for free to something with a considerable profit margin.
All seems like small stakes, but the fact people were furious about the 5p they HAD to charge in 2015 and 10 years later people largely don’t think about the fact they’re now charging 8 times that for profit is a great indication of how corporations can make changes happen if they just do it slowly enough and power through the outrage.
And how “slowly enough” isn’t actually that slow.
That’s how they get away with increasing prices, shrinkification and enshittification on all scales of the market.
They make the products worse value, a little tiny bit at a time. Just enough that people are pissed off, but not *too* pissed off.
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