Where's the Beef?

Where’s the beef?

Where’s the beef, was a tag line phrase tagged and commercialized by Wendy’s in the 1980’s, we have come a long way since the 80’s or have we? In many ways America has become a Walmart society and a McDonald’s society by squeezing out the value of every service and product offered today. We want bigger, larger homes and vehicles and toys indicated by what society deems to look like you are succeeding in life, yet we are failing miserably. There is no value in service, for that matter, there is no service anymore. Go up to any cash register in America and you will be, one lucky if you get a live person to assist you or are more likely to get just a machine in which you scan your own items and bag them, of course if you live in New York state half the time you don’t even get a bag anymore. In the rare instance you get a live person, what are the odds that person is not talking on the phone or to another associate while they wait on you with little to no regard that you barely exist and are the very reason that they are employed. The products you purchase, whether it be your fruits and vegetables that are half rotten or not even ripe to begin with, or the half empty packages that we are paying top dollar for half the product. Not only have we completely obliterated customer service but there is no value in products either.

????????????????? Products are no longer designed to last more than a few years at best. This is no secret we have known this for many decades, we are a throw away society so that we can simply sell more products. I have worked in sales for years and I see it in industry after industry, to gain competition over another company the proprietary industry self-destructs and constricts its value by offering the best price or the lowest commissions and the consumer thinks it is great by getting dollar store value. Just think how much money you just saved, right?

What we are losing as a society is so much bigger than a few dollars. Money is energy; we are expecting to expel less energy for more money. We are selling our souls to the devil for what deems to be the cheapest you can buy something for. We want the biggest and the best for the cheapest, the reality is that does not exist, at some point something must give. We are developing a society where it doesn’t matter where you shop because consumers are expecting to pay the same amount.

I no more than the next person want to overpay for a service or product, but what we are losing in value has far more weight than a few dollars that 10 years from now we won’t even remember we spent. We simply go to work and make more each day, or the government simply prints it. We are selling our soul to the devil for a few dollars in savings. Not many people go to work for the same paycheck decade after decade, we jump from job to job looking for the best paycheck, we expect to be paid the highest yet pay the lowest for products. You are only hurting yourself and fellow American’s by being a consumer that settles for the least amount of service and the cheapest product. How many people stop and value themselves to the product you are buying? Are you buying something that is simply the cheapest? Why not buy something that is the best? Many people must buy on that value otherwise we wouldn’t have products like consumers buying guides or even A.I to help you determine what the best product is to buy. Yet we are expecting to pay the least amount, you can buy something for less, but what is the value you are losing? Are you being cheap on labor? How does that equate when it is a gas or electric appliance we are installing in our homes, are you ok knowing that by cheaping out, you may be losing quality in labor and putting your family at risk? That would never happen right? Why would it, they are a reputable company? It can happen, something must give when we cut quality and value. Would you yourself install or produce a product for a pay cut? The simple answer is no. Nobody wants a pay cut but every day, we expect that when we purchase the cheapest product out there. Clearly there must be some value on why something is more expensive.

Of course there is value in being more expensive. A Better built product, or more qualified labor, or the convenience of having a company available to answer questions or help when something fails, all these have value in a corporation. More expensive likely means that the company has a higher overhead. What the media tells us is that its corporate greed right? We should make corporations and millionaires pay more in taxes and offset the expenses we the average people incur in products we want to consume, correct? What we fail to think of is that what if WE were that millionaire? Would you want to have to pay more in taxes so that someone who does not want to have work so hard can sit back and do whatever it is they want to do? I feel like most of us would answer no to that question, yet we do it every day, we do in in the way we buy, and the way we vote.

It really is the unspoken horrible truth. We all know people that need assistance and help, and who wants to be the one to say that those programs are no longer available or should not exist? We have created a society that simply puts there hand out and wants to get something for nothing. That is exactly what we are getting, something for nothing. For nothing has any value anymore. Everyone is out to get a leg up on anyone they meet. Let the next guy pay for it, I just care about me. We are no longer a Democratic or a Republican country, we are simply moving closer and closer to becoming a communist country. Simply by making the choices we make every single day, That Walmart and Dollar Store mentality that steals the value out of every moral ounce of our bodies. The mentality that we want more and more to look like we have it all, but we settle for less and less. That my friends, is really the difference between a quality life and a life that is no more valuable that the cheap broken plastic toy you purchased at the dollar store. We are nickel and diming our friends, our neighbors and our country, squeezing every ounce of getting it faster and cheaper. Where’s the beef? My Beef is with cheap consumerism.