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Everything is getting worse

Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?

I can't help but feel most things I expereince day to day are getting worse.

Bakeries produce worse food, fruit is all water and no flavour, mumble mumble grumble.

I mention this because I'm watching an old prime time Brit sit-com 'Bless this house' and it's had a silly confusion over who the model was for the sons painting - a nude on which he painted the neighbours face.

Several times the nude painting is shown, and no one gets worked up over the idea of a nude painting although there's some worry that the boy has been dallying with the married neighbour.

Yet not long ago a painting has been censored on 'Antique Roadshow' because it was a nude.

And it's got me annoyed that everytihng seems being driven down in quality in pursuit of improved profits (rather than up in quality in pursuit of higher margins as economics would have us expect) and life being quashed by prudes fearful of peoples passions and expression.

I mention bakeries because there used to be an excellent baker around the corner from my home yet once the owners retired the quality was abandoned in favour of mock cream and flat dough. Yuk. And I've spent some time trying to find a replacement There's nothing within miles to compare.

So I'm in a huff. It's all going to crap.