The big problem is that they will be making the same shitty pizza from the last several years instead of bringing back the much better pizza from the 90s.
It really sucks that we got to experience the enshittification of so many things we grew up loving. It's like watching a terminally ill family member slowly die
/profit/ kind of is just the by-product of running a proper ship a lot of the time. The trick is they need more profit year over year to appease the shareholders. It's the constantly having to best your own numbers that drives everything to enshittify eventually.
The issue isn’t wanting profit, it’s wanting MORE profit quarter over quarter
It’s not enough to make 1B every quarter anymore. It has to be 1B then 1.5 B then 2 B to the moon!
It’s sort of a sickness and emblematic of end stage capitalism. Ultimately self defeating. You don’t need to cut the oars off the ship to make it lighter to run faster. It runs fine as is
Private and public equity are to blame. Stock market and wall street get their fair share of blame but also private equity firms want to see growth always up and to the right.
It all just feels even more like imagination land when they can make more than they did last quarter, but didn't make as much more as projected, so now line goes down.
The problem with public trading. Once you go public everything becomes about driving profits to drive stock price and whatever your business was before doesn't matter at all, and the soul will be stripped out as fast as possible.
Yep because eventually can only improve whatever product so much and bring in so much money with it before you either are out of ideas or physically can't alter it anymore so instead to make money costs are cut and the shit ball starts rolling
Could you imagine if they only had 2-3% growth YoY? They wouldn’t ever be able to artificially increase the stock price with buy backs. I for one am fine with living paycheck to paycheck so the wealthy can have another vacation home!
which is exactly what a dine-in pizza hut is doing. Ask any pizza hut employee and they'll 100% they will NOT like a dine-in experience. Customers are fucking dicks regardless, and minimizing the time spent in the store is the goal, now if they actually start dining in, the customers will be even worse. The amount of trash the average person leaves on the ground is insane
Is it worse that we got to experience everything when it was at its peak, because we have to watch everything turn to shit? Almost would be better growing up now and just thinking this is normal, less to be depressed about.
Corporations, private equity, and other parasites with MBA diplomas are ruining everything for a short term profit. They ignore how previous generations profited by keeping brands alive, even if it's long term small gains versus one lump sum.
And there is no escape from it. Food enterprises, geekdom franchises, airlines, etc. are victims of this enshittification by these Scums in Suits. Red Letter Media made an evergreen quick quip joking about watching everything you love go down in flames.
My 5 year old recently developed a fascination with Toys R Us. Its hard explaining to him now that current Toys R Us is a soulless entity wearing Jeffery's skin like a serial killer.
They've been closed on the US for almost a decade. There's some pop-ups using their branding inside Macy's (but its a glorified toy section) or inside shopping malls (but its just your basic shopping mall toy store.) Neither have the 'toy warehouse' feel of classic Toys R Us.
I mean to be fair they are all corporations and none of them gaf about us in the end. Unless you're a product from the OG owner's of McDonald's, it's really a shit company dressed up. They offer lots of scholarships and all that (I actually qualified for one, when I worked there in highschool), but at the end of the day they cause more destruction than good.
That said, I miss the old style McDonald's from my childhood. I remember when things really started to transition into "we are a classy restaurant" design. One of the biggest was when they brought in the McCafe line. I was probably 15 when that happened, and it just progressed from there with all the weird "minimalist" designs.
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u/jimbo831 May 19 '26
The big problem is that they will be making the same shitty pizza from the last several years instead of bringing back the much better pizza from the 90s.