On: Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Mus...

[systemvoltage]

> This modern version is a complete scam

Applies to pretty much 90% of everything I use and buy. The world is getting shittier by the day.

[tobmlt → systemvoltage]

This should be a proxy measure for inflation. (If only it was quantifiable so easily…)

Instead of prices going up in this case, quality goes down.

[nebula8804 → tobmlt]

There used to be an awesome blog site called consumerist that had a "Shrink Ray" section where they would try to track all the consumer products that were secretly degraded in some way. The blog shut down a while ago. Guess big industry got to them.

[1]:https://consumerist.com/tag/shrink-ray/index.html

[mark-r → nebula8804]

The life blood of any independent site is advertising. Who would advertise on such a site?

[nebula8804 → mark-r]

Good point.