This is surprising, I didn't think M&S made clothing worth repairing. I had assumed they had fallen in line with the fast fashion, make it, sell it, bin it, mantra.
I'm not vegan but I agree with all of this. Industrialization was the most stupid and evil thing mankind had ever done and it just gets worse and worse. Until things change, death and extinctions are imminent.
This y axis placement is quite common for stock tickers. I suppose it is intended to make it easiest to see the most up to date price, which is the pertinent information for most readers. Similarly, the y axis starting at zero is conventional wisdom for scientific data, but I suppose the most relevant visual for stocks is the price fluctuation, which is best viewed with y autoscaling over the selected timeframe.
It's because they announced to shareholders they made $500 million less than expected in the last 3 months. They expected to make $9.1 billion but made $8.6 billion. Their sales are down worldwide indicating it's not just a US thing.
I wouldn't put it past them to under-report their earnings to get more leverage in unionization negotiations, engineering a temporary drop in share price.
Oh fuck off with this. Don't victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.
Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.
Won't find many people shedding tears for the legacy cable companies or the legacy taxi industry. Two of the most hated industries before they got disrupted.
I may be an outlier, but I liked old taxis you order by a phonecall more than drivers juggling five different apps and coming to your place with an according delay for they try to be a delivery guy and a taxist for many companies just to keep a positive balance; cable was great in Russia too, for one Discovery channel alone could completely capture the day of a young teen like me, unlike what it is now. YMMV.
I definitely don't endorse Black Friday, but I think this mindset uses the wrong sorts of tools to answer what might not even be the right question.
You can't fix the "we should go shopping on Friday after Thanksgiving" mindset with a law, or at least not with a law that's even vaugly in line with laws existing where I live. Even if you banned sales the day after Thanksgiving, that's not the issue, the bugger problem is the relationship between people, community, goods and brands.
Consider how Europe and Australia counter tobacco ads by forcing them to put gross pics on the cartons, and blocking their ads from places where children would encounter them. It’s acknowledged that marketing works. If it didn’t work, it wouldn’t be used.
I don’t have a problem with govs regulating harmful ads. But at the risk of going on a tangent, I think the research shows that the sensational pics Europe and Australia actually proved to fail. Though it failed for reasons that wouldn’t apply to Black Friday. It was related to how the extreme pics stimulated a part of the brain that triggers smokers to want to smoke (or something like that).
Belgium and Netherlands, perhaps France already regulate sales. So at least in those places, why would it be “the wrong tool” to refine a tool that’s already in play?
Even if you banned sales the day after Thanksgiving, that’s not the issue
What would happen? If the absence of sales promotions would have no reduction of consumerism, why would retailers go to expense of organizing a sale and marketing it?
I guess my distaste comes from the fact that this is a "top down" approach when a "bottom up" approach feels both more effective and attainable. The rejection of consumerism should come from people, not from a government, and the idea that the government should work to influence attitudes and not the reverse is worrying to me.
I guess my underlying assumption was that a dictatorship is not in play, but rather a gov elected by the people to represent them. I don’t see how the idea would come from the gov. The gov would be carrying out an idea from the people it represents.
Otherwise, what would you envision with the rejection of consumerism coming from the people? Do you mean individual actions like boycotts? I’ve been boycotting Black Friday for years but it’s not working.
I’ve also switched to a bicycle but this does nothing to get people out of cars. In fact by going to a bicycle, I made the street less crowded so car drivers are rewarded by my action. My individual actions don’t scale well enough. Nonetheless, I still take individual actions like consuming like a vegan more and more. And I hope it catches on. I hope the thread would inspire readers to boycott Black Friday. But I have little confidence it will make a dent.
EDIT: one thing I think I under-emphasized, which Europeans seem to pay attention to more than the rest of the world: Black Friday is a day off for non-retail workers. But retail workers don’t only have to work, but they also have a busy stressful and long work day while everyone else has fun. Those workers should have equal rights protections. I speak theoretically in a sense, because BF is a not a day off for anyone outside the US anyway.
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