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> To me, that is deeply unethical behaviour. This is just 2024 again. My theory is here that regardless of what you might otherwise think of ESG, I think one of the key things to bear in mind is it imposes is that customer value is not the top priority. I understand of course that the longer-term idea is that, say, all businesses get better at waste disposal, and once that happens businesses can prioritise customer v…
Private companies in market economies have always been incentivized to maximize profit, and one way to do that is to charge as possible for as little as possible. Nothing has changed. The only difference here is now they have a bunch of people cheering them on for saving the planet when they do this. If you cheer on all other forms of shrinkflation, then sure, this is something you would also like. I should be clear…
Well, I think I agree. The only reason I brought up ESG is it gives all detergent manufacturers the incentive to provide the same shrinkflation, and gain points for it. Not to say they will; I just thought it was an interesting angle.
I do think that offering infinite space and then limiting it to 20GB isn't quite the same as shrinkflation. It was silly to ever offer unlimited space. But they are definitely tightening the screws, I agree.