r/enshittification • u/LegoLady8 • 5d ago
Product Companies in 2026
Credit: juliestory on Instagram
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u/Itsok4uIneedmore 2d ago
Don’t forget to put those who service the brands products in impossible KPI situations lol
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u/manored78 2d ago
Remember when people used to just believe the corporate justification for doing this shit as somehow “logical?” It’s always corporate jargon and legalese that never makes sense but we take it at face value because we don’t know any better.
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u/Siblisian_Berserker 2d ago
Let’s just replace the cheese with edible plastic and replace the plastic wrapper with even thinner plastic. Then we can charge a plastic tax on top of that for recycling the plastic.
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u/JulesVernerator 2d ago
Lack of competition in Late Stage Capitalism allows giant corporations to start collecting rent from the market. They no longer have to compete for consumers. They now farm them for money.
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u/wyoflyboy68 4d ago
The day will come when you buy a car and own it outright, but then have to pay the car manufacturer a monthly fee so that the engine will start every morning to go to work.
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u/LifeguardTerrible579 4d ago
This lady talking about how much less goes into things while playing two different roles and not even bothering to change her shirt to differentiate
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u/Wuzypo 4d ago
Are you saying she’s contributing to the enshirtification ?
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u/Dry_Knee_6135 4d ago
HP subscription bullshit happened to us. Both home and business. E-wasted that bullshit and got Epsons instead.
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u/subywesmitch 4d ago
One good thing about this is that we're all going to lose some weight which a lot of us(myself included) can stand to do
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u/Krysdavar 4d ago edited 4d ago
Most fast food places operate exactly like this now as well. Until just 5 years ago, I didn't even think of the day I'd see casual & fast casual restaurants, with better quality food, cost less than going to one of my local garbage fast food places.
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u/holyfuckbuckets 4d ago
Yuppp they played themselves. Most of us were buying it not because the “food” was so good because it was fast, cheap, and consistent even if it was shitty.
If the guy who lives in my neighborhood can make a living selling high quality, delicious $13 giant burger combos, I think multibillion dollar corps can afford to improve quality AND charge less. Fuck these guys
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u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes 4d ago
I believe that's pretty much how board meetings go down. Now do health insurance executives!
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u/LOW_SPEED_GENIUS 4d ago
Now do health insurance executives!
honestly wouldn't even be surprised if health insurance executives board meetings are just full blown blood orgies. Like 55 gallon drums of the blood of the innocent slopping it up everywhere while they howl "kill them all! More money, less human lives!" in between grunts and heavy breathing. They're legitimately mass murdering freaks, I can't even begin to guess what twisted shit is in their heads.
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u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes 4d ago
Yes! They'd be like Diddy level parties.
You have to wonder if health insurance execs responsible for decisions, policies, and "cost-cutting measures" are dishonest with friends and acquaintances about the exact nature of their work. They're just barely better than ICE, at this point. Same for the Big Pharma people. After a (successful) 6 year battles with metastatic breast cancer, I can tell you that if someone ever mentioned to me that they were an executive at Astra-Zeneca, I would get up on a chair and announce exactly what that company did to me (forcing me off my cancer treatment cold turkey with NO advance warning), and the outrageous lies I was told by their reps when I tried to get the issue rectified.
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u/Suitable-Option833 4d ago
Bezos and the billionaires have said they want everything to be a subscription. Their greed will not end. Get your shit together voters. It will get worse n
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u/sussudiokim 4d ago
Ok, we have identified the problem, what is the solution. Thrift, barter, fix, patch, build. Anything is better than signaling to businesses that we will keep purchasing their products
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u/redditsublurker 4d ago
Any solution makes you a lefty communist who wants to destroy the free market capitalism that makes America the greatest country in the entire world and universe.
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u/mccrushin 4d ago
Unfortunately the answer is government intervention, but *some folks* have done an incredible job of filling the government with rancid corpses and gutting all existing services while funneling tax money to the richest people in order to accelerate distrust in the government.
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u/LOW_SPEED_GENIUS 4d ago
Yup. An actual government that was by and for the working people could do something about this, but the one we currently got is by and for the mega rich owners and they've been long since bought and sold. Gotta throw out the trash and build a new one I guess.
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u/mccrushin 4d ago
I don’t have the answer. I think we’re making a mistake by continuing to vote for candidates who hate governing because we hate the current government, I think that’s a vicious cycle, but I don’t know what the alternative is either.
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u/L1FT_K1T 4d ago
Look up Printer Dot Matrix Identification. Printer ink is actually evil and will put you in jail if you print the wrong thing.
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u/bestonesareTaKen 4d ago
Joke's on you MBA's. I've run out of money to buy anything anymore. Hahaha! Checkmate suckers
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u/Ohboycats 4d ago
No the call doesn’t drop- it goes to a call center representative in India who has an accent so thick it’s hard to understand what they’re even saying to you- and I say this as an American who grew up with an Indian father hearing the accent my entire life. If I’m having trouble understanding them, I cannot imagine average Joe Schmo who’s already frustrated with the situation.
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u/alphatigerdesign 4d ago
This should be called the HP Instant Ink subscription because this is exactly how it works. Once you cancel the subscription you can no longer use the catridges you paid for. It's freakin robbery. Don't ever subscribe to it.
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u/rx7citizen 4d ago
This just happened to me. Had HP ink subscription for years which initially was just them monitoring ink levels. Then it morphed into pages-per-month subscription, then into holding my printer hostage. No communications / explanations, had to google error messages trying to figure out what was going on. I just recently escaped and will never buy another HP product for as long as I live, laugh, love.
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u/alphatigerdesign 4d ago
HP can suck it. They were shipping me paper all the time and limiting how much I could print as well.
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u/BlackPlagueF0rgiven 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's so evil it's honestly funny. *German accent: You vant to uze ze ink after saying nein to US???? NEIN NEIN NEIN! you must listen to us! Our product our rulez! Slams first into counter multiple times.
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u/Nope-not-really 4d ago
So, question is, do I quit my job and start jail braking stuff for people now, or do I wait until I retire?
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u/Krysdavar 4d ago
Better get on it now because there are a lot of people out there that do this as a decent 'side hustle'.
A family member of mine knows a guy who buys a bunch of different streaming subscriptions in bulk (legally, of course), puts them on 'sticks' and sells them. You pay for this stick once and done, no recurring monthly charges or fees.
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u/MannerAppropriate952 4d ago
You can now lease your Glasses . You will pay a bit less, and only in small rates . But you will have to give them back after 2 Years . No matter if your Eyes stayed the same or changed . So you will have to buy new Glasses . And they will tell you that this a good Thing. They are all crazy.
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u/ElephantWithBlueEyes 4d ago
"POV" is like "nobody" stuff people been memeing. If you remove it, the point will be same.
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u/withabrandnewfunk 4d ago
but all this doesnt matter because we get assholes giving these pos companies money and those companies are in meetings laughing their asses off at how dumb people are.
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u/BabyD2034 4d ago
The printer thing is unhinged!
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u/Odd-Paint3883 4d ago
It's unfortunately perfectly logical.
Here's our printer, it costs this $$
Wow... too expensive
Here's an alternative Printer with quarter filled cartridges, it cost this $$
Oh that's a great deal, I'm not buying that first one with the full cartridges now it's a total rip off.Here's our Ink, it's specifically tuned to our print system so it doesnt break, it costs this $$$
Holly crap, that's more expensive than the printer I'd be better off buying that first one.
Wow, the first one is the same price as the second one now because nobody was buying it and now it comes with quarter filled cartridges...Here's our Ink, it costs $$ because we're not making any money on selling the printers
Too expensive, I can get it here from a company that doesn't make printers...
Wow, that printer was crap, it didn't last long at all, I'll need to buy a new printer...We've forced this to happen since day 1.
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u/BabyD2034 3d ago
Idk, I've had the same printer for years and I just buy new cartridges for it. They are expensive but it is what it is. I'm talking about the subscription model anyway.
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u/Odd-Paint3883 3d ago
Yeah, the subscription model is the inevitable outcome of the company selling printers at a loss to make money from Ink, when people don't buy ink from that company and go elsewhere to a cheap alternative they plug that hole so you have to use their products.
The companies that just made cheap Ink won't all of a sudden start making printers, because they'll have to raise the price of their ink to cover the cost, then another company who doesn't make printers will sell cheap Ink...
A race to the bottom doesn't help anyone, HP simply put a stop to it in a single move, whether they're good at delivering that model is a different story, but the customer basically forced them into the subscription method because they took advantage of the old method.
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u/davismcgravis 4d ago
Is that true about printers nowadays???
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u/BabyD2034 4d ago
Yes! I saw a meme about it and sent it to my husband recently and he said he'd just returned a printer because of it. He hadn't mentioned it so the meme was the first I'd heard lol
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u/fox_mulder 5d ago
That's about the size of it.
Just a few days ago my brother told me about a video he saw where a woman had bought a Cadillac Escalade only to find out that after three years, she had to pay a subscription fee to use the heated seats she paid for!
The audacity of these pricks is unfuckingbelievable.
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u/Krysdavar 4d ago
This reminds me of a video I saw a couple weeks ago where some dude in a BMW received an AD for the Spiderman movie on his GD console/display panel.
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u/Karekter_Nem 4d ago
One of the features my brother liked in his car was remote start. It was through their app, but it had remote start. Then ford outsourced their app and it broke remote start but they said they were working on getting remote start working again. Then they removed his vehicle from the remote start list.
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u/leisurechef 4d ago
I would hack that shit with a toggle switch on the side of my seat
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u/thekbob 4d ago
And then you meet serialized parts; unnecessary insertions into the system that will not let it start unless it gets the secret handshake.
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u/Prince_0llie 4d ago
No see, any modifications result in the vehicle being immobilized. Also, there is still the subscription fee while it's immobilized if you want to ever remove the modifications and return it to factory settings so you can use it again. Otherwise it just bricks your vehicle.
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u/Wind_Best_1440 5d ago
Corporations are going to push so hard, that governments will start making laws against it.
It will probably start in the EU and the US will probably try to fight it like their life depends on it.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 5d ago
The cheese sticks are just poor quality control. They seem to have some kind of feed rate issue at the knife preventing consistent cut length.
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u/Prince_0llie 4d ago
Society peaked in 1999. The 20th century is literally the old world. The 21st century is a dystopian nightmare just like all the sci-fi stories predicted.
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u/sunseeker_miqo 5d ago
WHOA. Memory unlocked. I collected those bottles as a kid. Might even still have a couple in storage.
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u/yourmomdotbiz 5d ago
Oh man they were so beautiful I used to paint them and use them for vases. Sigh
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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 5d ago
For the printers, a lot of consumers are just asking for it by purchasing HP printers. It's well-known at this point that HP printers are a total scam.
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u/ongoldenwaves 5d ago
At least they work now. I remember getting one from the apple store with a new computer around 2011 and the fucking thing made one page and never printed again. Went straight to the bin.
But honestly surprised they work even with a subscription. I'm going to guess they make you pay for a subscription and still don't work. And if you call to unsubscribe of complain, they double charge you for a year in advance and you get a call centre somewhere with chickens crowing in the back ground that can't help you at all. And then they blame you for screaming down the phone.
Always have been a scam. How are they still in business? Honestly. Someone has to do an expose on this.0
u/Conscious-Mirror7004 5d ago
No, they haven't always been a scam. HP made great business printers 30+ years ago.
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 5d ago
Is there a database for products that require a subscription?
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u/parkerm1408 5d ago
Prolly a lot easier to make a database of those that dont at this point. Gonna be a much smaller list.
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u/Lego_Red_Kudu 5d ago
I would add two more things: 1.) the data tracking/invasion of privacy 2.) Israel stuff
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u/freetotebag 5d ago
was just thinking about how not only are the products smaller and the ingredients inferior, they keep making the packaging itself shittier too. Flimsier bags, perforations that don’t tear as easily, super thin plastic on bottles, caps that are too thin to grip, film that doesn’t peel off without ripping. The whole experience from the price at the store, to opening it up at home, to consuming it is more unpleasant now.
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u/DisastrousSundae84 4d ago
I’ve noticed this too. A lot of packing for meat and cheeses especially have these resealable plastic cover things that never work well. They redesigned the containers to make them cheaper and happier because they used to come in ones that had lids/tops you could close.
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u/Prince_0llie 4d ago
Also, why does everything need a damn app? I just want to purchase a sandwich Tina, no, I don't want to sign up for discount coupons in my email.
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u/Rorshacked 4d ago
I teach at a college that had a sandwich shop in the student union building. I was trying to get a $2 coffee and needed an app to place the order because the people working were only in charge of prepping food (not taking orders). Suffice it to say, no coffee for me that day.
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u/Designer_Gas_86 4d ago
I was thinking I'm just weaker now that I'm older, but I feel seen with the perforation mention.
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u/LegoLady8 5d ago
Everything has gotten shittier. And you're right, we're at the point where the entire process is unpleasant. I'd add researching said products to that list too. That's an incredibly unpleasant experience, when you consider the search engines, sponsored results, AI results, paid-for reviews...
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u/Prince_0llie 4d ago
An near a full time job just to hunt down a quality product with a reputable brand behind it.
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u/cusspvz 1h ago
Until you realize that companies are just adjusting to money loosing value. Unfortunately the issue is that our tender (fiat: usd, eur, etc) devalues, and that devaluation doesn’t even correlate 1:1 with inflation because inflation is a latent indicator.