Hail corporate (they did it tho)
(midwest.social)
fossilesque
Science MemesMeanwhile, Dick Van Dyke is just happy that he can play with Lego again.
His greatest accomplishment
Aight, this is pretty wholesome
Aything to please consumers but lower their prices
They do make as pretty good product and dedicate much to r&d and on the community in general. I know premium brands which are more openly extortionate and care little about their customers.
What I mean to say is that quality is not solely in the product itself (even though they are very serious about quality in that aspect too).
I mean value wise there are cheaper plastic toy choices, but there's nothing close to what Lego does.
Lepin has revitalized ny love of legos...I bought a ship I always wanted for $65 on aliexpress...just gotta do your research instead of blind buys
LEGO has technically lowered prices. They have started transitioning to sustainable plastic sources that are much more expensive to produce, but will not increase prices.
just means they were overpriced to begin with.
Lego sells a physical toy in 2026, not a game, and is still running.
They are not stupid. They will not rock this boat with a price increase.
Yes, but now that they're built from better and more expensive materials without a price raise, they're less overpriced than they used to be.
Hell, name any other toy brand with anywhere near their popularity and brand recognition which HASN'T been overpriced forever AND raised prices significantly in recent years.
On top of that the general price increase over the last 25 years has come with considerable increases in set intricacy, piece count, and variety to both piece shapes and themes. I love to dunk on corporate price gouging but i really struggle to fault LEGO. I personally use “a person can comfortably buy LEGO as toys for their children” as my personal litmus for what a good wage should be; they’re pretty solid for maintaining a price/value ratio and Americans should all be making at least 150k/year by now even out in the boonies, just deduct it right out of the fortune 500s margins
my point, is I won't give companies a shred of recognition of a 'good job' until their crimes, lies and corruption are stopped or they are jailed. no more free passes, no more looking the other way, no more 'well it's kinda better now' .. no. hard stop, I'm sick of all these companies. they all deserve nonstop hatred, being called out for crimes and being treated like trash.
What crimes have LEGO committed?
Instead of paying workers what they are worth, they are paid a market wage that is always less than the value they produce.
That's where profit comes from. All profit is theft.
Profit can also be the value of the labour you put into something. If you buy wood, build a table, then sell it for more than the value of the wood, then that profit is the value of your labour.
or they get to write off some tax as a result of switching to the sustainable plastic, so it doesn't actually cost them anything to switch.
The price per kilo has increased.
The price per piece is mostly constant due to pieces using less plastic and there generally being more tiny pieces in all sets.
