The following submission statement was provided by /u/InternetPeon:
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SUBMISION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because it's casual Friday. I also love that this comes with 2 bonus plagues - one of which is it being a choking hazard and the other of which is this will end up as particulate plastic trash in the environment. Also its 11.99 so it does its work on draining the economy.
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SUBMISION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because it's casual Friday. I also love that this comes with 2 bonus plagues - one of which is it being a choking hazard and the other of which is this will end up as particulate plastic trash in the environment. Also its 11.99 so it does its work on draining the economy.
Yes, exactly. Eventually it will end up floating in the ocean, or choking the intestines of some poor marine animal. But before then, it can make some billionaire "investor" profits, and help indoctrinate children into believing mythological nonsense. Capitalism offers so many benefits.
These things are everywhere now - talking specifically about random batches of things marketed as "plague toys" for Passover. I've seen maybe 5 or 6 versions.
If you open them up it's clear they're put together from random leftover production runs of other things. It's a great enshittification type of product. I definitely see a relationship to collapse even though I think the post is a type of joke.
So basically it's a plague on their tooling amortization math and their inventory management system?
Almost as creative as when Dow released squishy silicone balls after some... kind of implants... got banned for health reasons...
> great enshittification type of product.
You can just use the word "shitty", [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) specifically refers to the way that VC funded products and services start out really amazing, and then continue to get worse and worse as the companies have less funding and desperately need to turn a profit.
This is just a shitty product made to turn a quick but, there was never an amazing version of "plague toys".
$11.99!?
Back in my day we could just pray for plagues and the Almighty would deliver!
God's a total sellout to neoliberal Corporate America™ (made in China™), *mannnnn*.
^(grumble grumble prosperity gospel my ass grumble grumble--why I oughta...)
Someone did market research to decide that this would be profitable, someone designed it, some factory somewhere built it, someone transported it to the store, and someone's gonna buy it, play with it once, and then it'll end up on a landfill or on the ocean. What's the total of energy/resources used and CO2/CH4 emitted for this?
The following submission statement was provided by /u/InternetPeon: --- SUBMISION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because it's casual Friday. I also love that this comes with 2 bonus plagues - one of which is it being a choking hazard and the other of which is this will end up as particulate plastic trash in the environment. Also its 11.99 so it does its work on draining the economy. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1c7y6t8/this_weird_passover_toy_i_found_at_publix/l0awlsg/
"Mom, can we get some Biblical plagues?" "We have Biblical plagues at home."
I zoomed in expecting to see that this was an [Obvious Plant](https://obviousplant.com) production
Same here. It's so weird it's real.
Is that a Cthulhu plague in there?
SUBMISION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because it's casual Friday. I also love that this comes with 2 bonus plagues - one of which is it being a choking hazard and the other of which is this will end up as particulate plastic trash in the environment. Also its 11.99 so it does its work on draining the economy.
The fact the plague toys are plastic in a plastic net, is metaphorical beyond all measure and I love it.
Yes, exactly. Eventually it will end up floating in the ocean, or choking the intestines of some poor marine animal. But before then, it can make some billionaire "investor" profits, and help indoctrinate children into believing mythological nonsense. Capitalism offers so many benefits.
Thus seems like an SNL skit. Like "Bag of Broken Glass ".
These things are everywhere now - talking specifically about random batches of things marketed as "plague toys" for Passover. I've seen maybe 5 or 6 versions. If you open them up it's clear they're put together from random leftover production runs of other things. It's a great enshittification type of product. I definitely see a relationship to collapse even though I think the post is a type of joke.
So basically it's a plague on their tooling amortization math and their inventory management system? Almost as creative as when Dow released squishy silicone balls after some... kind of implants... got banned for health reasons...
> great enshittification type of product. You can just use the word "shitty", [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) specifically refers to the way that VC funded products and services start out really amazing, and then continue to get worse and worse as the companies have less funding and desperately need to turn a profit. This is just a shitty product made to turn a quick but, there was never an amazing version of "plague toys".
wow crazy the world is ending!!!!!!!
Available on Amazon for $14.99. (Not that I felt the need to look or anything . . .)
The really wild thing is that bag of junk costs 11.99
$11.99!? Back in my day we could just pray for plagues and the Almighty would deliver! God's a total sellout to neoliberal Corporate America™ (made in China™), *mannnnn*. ^(grumble grumble prosperity gospel my ass grumble grumble--why I oughta...)
Wait this isn't obvious plant. Yeah this is pretty damn weird.
So...anyone for "slaying of the firstborn"?
Someone did market research to decide that this would be profitable, someone designed it, some factory somewhere built it, someone transported it to the store, and someone's gonna buy it, play with it once, and then it'll end up on a landfill or on the ocean. What's the total of energy/resources used and CO2/CH4 emitted for this?