Buy Less, Demand More

We should be far more outraged about certain things than we are. I'm not saying we should blow things out of proportion, like politics or movies based on comic books, but we need to say something about companies who make junk food and drink getting away with giving the consumer less, but making us pay more.

Thin sandwich cookies? What, did they run out of frosting? Is there a shortage of fake dairy and powdered preservatives, or is no one willing to churn that soft poison anymore?

Tiny soda cans? Not only tiny cans, but fewer cans per case?! Are you kidding me?

Is the unit price for these things up because the inedible material is doubled? Have the plants all shut down, so they have to supplement a lack of non-food with metal and plastic?

We're paying more for hamburgers than ever before, but the patties have slinked inside the standard bun like they're ashamed at how much they cost, now. What's more, or less, is if you want something with actual value to your body, like a slice of tomato, it costs almost as much as the entire sandwich, yet the slice is even smaller than the half-dollar of hambuger. 

The worst of all of this is that people are buying these things. YOU have probably bought these things. They're thriving off of novelty, like always, but this time the novelty is that they're screwing us over to our faces and laughing while they fan count the Benjamins. Yes, I am that street.

How about we buy less and demand more. After all, we're the ones who ultimately have what they want. So, let's start flexing our consumer muscles at the greedy idiots who syphon money from the addicts they've trained.

And, let's do it before we have no more muscles to flex.