Consumer choices affected by pandemic

[dannylion]

I would not object to having fewer choices as long as the varieties I prefer are the ones that remain.  I expect others might feel the same way.  It's one of those things that's like a lot of other things in life: significant for those who are adversely affected, unimportant for those who are not.  


The problem with eliminating choices is that they were somebody's favorite thing, maybe many somebodies' favorite thing, so just eliminating choices for the purpose of "improving our quality of life" is only going to improve the quality of life for the people who didn't like or were indifferent to whatever it was that was eliminated. 


If I don't want a particular item, I don't buy it, but I understand that its existence is not designed to make my life difficult.  It exists because other people want it.  It's really none of my business what kind of, say, cereal other people buy, so I try not to experience any kind of existential horror over the existence of cereals I don't like.  Companies make products because people buy them.  

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Jul 4, 2020 14:43:04 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I would not object to having fewer choices as long as the varieties I prefer are the ones that remain.  I expect others might feel the same way.  It's one of those things that's like a lot of other things in life: significant for those who are adversely affected, unimportant for those who are not.  


The problem with eliminating choices is that they were somebody's favorite thing, maybe many somebodies' favorite thing, so just eliminating choices for the purpose of "improving our quality of life" is only going to improve the quality of life for the people who didn't like or were indifferent to whatever it was that was eliminated. 


If I don't want a particular item, I don't buy it, but I understand that its existence is not designed to make my life difficult.  It exists because other people want it.  It's really none of my business what kind of, say, cereal other people buy, so I try not to experience any kind of existential horror over the existence of cereals I don't like.  Companies make products because people buy them.