This marketing motto is driving us to ruin
We used to make "improved" products that cost less to make.
The consumer could save money.
Now the manufacturer charges the same price as the replaced product and pockets the additional money.
You go to the vet with a petigreed dog you bought for $400
Just to visit the vet it costs $50
Then they tell you the family pet needs an $800 operation
They can do this because they know you love your pet
and if you have kids, it would be traumatic to lose the pet.
Corporations "downsize" and they give the business leaders bonuses for failing to support the company's workforce.
A lot of money goes into corporate bonuses and not back into the company into R&D to expand it's product line.
Responsibility is pushed down to employees with lower pay. Benefits are reduced. After 35 years of doing your part to build the company they say they are not going to give you the retirement benefits they said they would because you never signed a paper holding them to your original agreement (but you had to sign papers for everything that was on value to the company).
We reduce the workday to 8 hours - then someone makes a rule that people who get paid a certain amount are "exempt" for receiving overtime pay. Now they work 12-14 hours a day and weekends, if necessary and don't get paid overtime. We make a law and someone else makes another rule to get around it.
Corporations have channeled money to the upper 1% and the cost of goods has risen 25%-60% so that now we are to the point where the middle and lower classes don't have the discretionary funds to buy the products to support the American businesses.
We need to rebalance salaries, work laws, unions and focus on benefiting all Americans. We need to restore the American dream!
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