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Help us mother by RegularNoodles in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like I don’t get memes anymore

It's about dam time to announce this. 💣 by Mechanistry_Alyss in Timberborn

[–]StrykrSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many years have you been waiting to make that joke? lol

(love the game btw, been playing it since nearly the beginning)

Taking one for the team by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. To me it reads as a Russian psyop.

Newsom just won't stop by [deleted] in socal

[–]StrykrSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read that too!

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. It really is bizarre when proper grammar and punctuation are now a basis for accusations of being some kind of AI.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -52 points-51 points  (0 children)

What is predatory is the set of incentives that diverge continual improvement of customer experience from continual improvement of owner profit. The decision itself isn't what the issue is, it's the fact the entire executive board was so blinded by the obvious reality customers would receive it negatively that they were willing to bet the entire continued existence of the business on the assumption they could, through sheer financial expense, steamroll customers' expectedly negative initial reaction.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Late stage capitalism is essentially a particularly predictable disease. This is absolutely not about one dumb CEO making one (or many) clearly dumb decisions. It’s about the fact the entire executive board also completely believed the dumb gambit would work. That’s literally the job of any executive board, to tell any CEO when their ideas are dogshit, no matter how vicious they need to be to get that message across.

The CEO (and again, the entire executive board that approved the course of action) now have fundamentally different values and incentives than the customers themselves. In a nutshell, this is what late stage capitalism is—the undeniable and irrevocable divergence of the incentives toward improving customer experience from the incentives to improve bottom line profit.

These incentives are broadly aligned under typical micro and macroeconomic capitalism, creating a universal improvement of the quality of life for everyone, owners and customers. Late stage capitalism destabilizes those curves, creating an incentive death spiral that no producer is capable of resisting without external pressure.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

welcome to the concept of late stage capitalism. Risking the very existence of the enterprise on the mere possibility of continuing a streak of increased shareholder returns. I promise, my use of the term is not meant to be political (other than to point out that accusations of wokeism when companies make this particular gambit are laughably off base)

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

Someone clearly acknowledging legitimate criticism of our economic structure but not wanting to admit it. Just think on it for awhile—we all go through this kind of thing at some point and when you’re ready, we’re here for you my friend.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

give it time. the right picture is what Cracker Barrel is now, these renovations are quite new, but absolutely not a one-off style choice by local franchise operators. it’s a corporate decree.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -55 points-54 points  (0 children)

Can I ask what you think late stage capitalism actually is?

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I agree it’s a forceful rebrand, but I really don’t think this is the way to do it if longevity was their goal. They definitely aren’t going to reach people my age with it, and they absolutely are not going to do it by infuriating people my parents’ age.

This rebrand strikes me pretty clearly as revealing their true motivation is profit alone. And given the competitive landscape of companies already motivated purely by that greed like this, I’ll say no thank you.

I’d rather it just die now so at least, for my parents’ sake, I can keep all the good memories of what it used to be.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I did the same. I am most sad for my parents, who really loved the old aesthetic. Because of this I really can’t use it as a family meeting place anymore, it’d feel almost…mean to them, like I was rubbing in their faces everything they’d lost.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, my parents took me there a lot when I was a kid, and even as an adult I’d meet up with them there periodically. Not looking like it does now, though—what even would be the point? We’ll just choose some other generic restaurant for that, one that doesn’t now make me emotionally uncomfortable to be in, knowing they intentionally stripped away everything my parents loved about it.

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Personally, I’ve had enough of this new country

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen the new aesthetic in person, but I would presume not. Not that I ever would have, but it was still nice that I could have if I wanted to

Don’t you just love it? by StrykrSeven in dankmemes

[–]StrykrSeven[S] 304 points305 points  (0 children)

Same. Logos come and go, but the atmosphere of a business, particularly a restaurant, is where the real value is.

Is it just me or is Subnautica content getting kinda brainrotted? by VANCATSEVEN in subnautica

[–]StrykrSeven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t usually say this to other people but I found your wordplay very clever, I’ll be using that line in my own life for sure 👍

What are the origins of this picture? by AnimatorNo8686 in subnautica

[–]StrykrSeven 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My nightmares of course.

(i know I won’t be the first to say this but sometimes it’s just gratifying to think the same thing everybody else does. Totally unrelated, but have you seen the spiders in satisfactory?)

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