Seriously, enshitification is the only thing US companies do well these days. They just dig deeper moats around their walled gardens because they’re too greedy to make decent products that people actually want.
My understanding is it’s only legalized on a state level and not federal. So I guess if they’re shipping it from an international airport or by sea the feds might see that as drug trafficking.
I live in Maine and the market is so flooded nobody can even grow straight for the black market and compete anymore, it’s all spills over from licenced grows. $80/oz for top shelf if you look around a little, $100 if you don’t. It’s almost impossible to spend more than $200. That has to be having farther reaching effects.
It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.
When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.
Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.
Seriously, enshitification is the only thing US companies do well these days. They just dig deeper moats around their walled gardens because they’re too greedy to make decent products that people actually want.
Enshittification, AI slop and fascism are America’s greatest exports. And that’s not even a joke.
We grow pretty good weed too, that isn’t nothing.
Not exported overseas though.
I have a feeling it probably must be though. What other countries are pumping out literal metric tons annually?
My understanding is it’s only legalized on a state level and not federal. So I guess if they’re shipping it from an international airport or by sea the feds might see that as drug trafficking.
I absolutely mean smuggling
I live in Maine and the market is so flooded nobody can even grow straight for the black market and compete anymore, it’s all spills over from licenced grows. $80/oz for top shelf if you look around a little, $100 if you don’t. It’s almost impossible to spend more than $200. That has to be having farther reaching effects.
I’m on medcan in Australia. It gets imported from everywhere but I’ve yet to come across a US grown flower.
All of the North American stuff I’ve gotten is Canadian.
I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.
It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.
When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.
Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.