Ugly profit driven business model?

I have been using a certain brand of product for quite long. They're very good in quality and the price is reasonable. It has been getting more popular over the years, and they even got listed in the local exchange.

Recently, there's a noticeably drop on the quality, I wonder why. I imagine the situation could be like this?

1. Start a new brand, offering great quality product at reasonable price, let say they can sell 10,000 every month. So, imagine if they cut cost of $0.1 for each item, they can only save 10,000*0.1 = $1000 only, not worth to do at all!

2. They have a bigger market share, now they can sell 1,000,000 every month and since they are more popular now, they have more control on the price, they have more bargaining power, so they can always increase the price a little bit without problem. Let say by $0.1 for each item, they can earn 1,000,000 * 0.1 = $100,000 more each month.

3. Now, they are one of the major players, they can sell 100M every month, they can virtually control the price until the consumer cannot afford, and they are now ready to reduce the quality, let say $0.1 for each item, they can earn 10M more each month.

Is that what is happening all these years? I wonder.

好! 但不要叫我來做...

近日香港正生書院打算遷入梅窩，但這卻引來當地居民強烈不滿。

在於梅窩居民來說，這似乎不難理解。但在於普通市民來看，這似乎又太不近人情。這實在有點奇怪，但這卻又是一個正常不過的現像！有些大家看來都很好的事情，基本上要執行，每一個人都會贊成，但其實背後卻有一個重要的假設，那就是不要在我家附近！

若我們把這個現像推遠一點，我們就發現其實這個簡單的模型確實能解釋很多事情：

1. 捐錢幫助窮人實在是一件好事，但請不要叫我每月都捐出我收入的一個部份，別人要是這樣做我會很讚賞，但我就不會了

2. 捨身救人的好人：某某警察或消防員很偉大，但我的兒子最好不要當那些職業，要當也要以自己安全為首要啊！

3. 接納精神病人仕：那當然是一件好事，但請不要叫我參與

似乎這個 NIMBY 現像就是人自私的具體表現吧！但請不要怪別人，因為只要我們回頭想想，其實我們也是一樣的！

香港議會的 "出氣" 文化

有人話香港議會好唔 productive, 鍾意搞對抗...

我覺得原因好簡單，皆因民選議員在議會只有 "發聲" 的權利，但因為人數不足，卻沒有足夠的影響力！在不能求實際的時候，就只能 "發聲"，並替選民 "出一口氣"

所以呢類能夠幫市民 "出氣" 既議員有相當市場... 你話佢粗口咩? 呢個正係佢可以幫人 "出氣" 既賣點........

如果他朝有日有全數直選, 相信呢種文化會慢慢消失?