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This suggests a social trend of pushing back against misleading marketing. Is there evidence of that behind this article's conjecture? Is (American) society ch

by ncr100 3y ago

This suggests a social trend of pushing back against misleading marketing. Is there evidence of that behind this article's conjecture? Is (American) society changing? (Is this another twist of the "Where's the beef?" moment?)

pumpkindaughter 3y ago
I was wondering the same. Maybe there is just an uptick in legal firms taking interest in bringing suits because it has proven to be a viable business? The article points out these firms exist, but "increase in one form of lawyering over the last decade" isn't nearly as sexy as "Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after x"
donatj 3y ago
I suspect it’s less a general social trend and more a cohort of litigious profiteers looking to make a quick buck.
- delecti 3y ago
  I'm happy having thirsty lawyers act as part of society's enforcement against bad corporate behavior. It'd be better if the government did it first, but I'll take what I can get.
  - vladvasiliu 3y ago
    This. I'm against profiteering as much as the next guy, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. If they can curb these dubious practices, good for them.
- rst4455 3y ago
  It's the sum of both - your textbook cohort of litigious profiteers, now with the perfect social trend excuse so they can redouble their efforts and mask the profiteering as social justice. Expect to see much more of this going forward.
- LiquidSky 3y ago
  Yeesh, it's sad how effective corporate propaganda is to see efforts to take companies to task for lying to consumers described this way.
II2II 3y ago
It's not very compelling evidence (just three selected data points), but the article states: > According to Perkins Coie, a law firm that tracks such cases, 214 class-action lawsuits were filed against the food and beverage industry in 2022, and 331 cases were brought the year before. > It's a major uptick from the 81 cases filed in 2014, less than a decade earlier.
bell-cot 3y ago
> This suggests a social trend of... > Is there evidence... No. But I have seen nothing to suggest a social trend of pushing back against wishful reporting. Or one could view such embellishments as low-dose mood meds, added to keep people from getting too depressed, due to chronic over-consumption of news...

by ncr100 3y ago

pumpkindaughter 3y ago

I was wondering the same. Maybe there is just an uptick in legal firms taking interest in bringing suits because it has proven to be a viable business? The article points out these firms exist, but "increase in one form of lawyering over the last decade" isn't nearly as sexy as "Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after x"

donatj 3y ago

I suspect it’s less a general social trend and more a cohort of litigious profiteers looking to make a quick buck.

delecti 3y ago
I'm happy having thirsty lawyers act as part of society's enforcement against bad corporate behavior. It'd be better if the government did it first, but I'll take what I can get.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
  This. I'm against profiteering as much as the next guy, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. If they can curb these dubious practices, good for them.
rst4455 3y ago
It's the sum of both - your textbook cohort of litigious profiteers, now with the perfect social trend excuse so they can redouble their efforts and mask the profiteering as social justice. Expect to see much more of this going forward.
LiquidSky 3y ago
Yeesh, it's sad how effective corporate propaganda is to see efforts to take companies to task for lying to consumers described this way.

II2II 3y ago

It's not very compelling evidence (just three selected data points), but the article states: > According to Perkins Coie, a law firm that tracks such cases, 214 class-action lawsuits were filed against the food and beverage industry in 2022, and 331 cases were brought the year before. > It's a major uptick from the 81 cases filed in 2014, less than a decade earlier.

bell-cot 3y ago

> This suggests a social trend of... > Is there evidence... No. But I have seen nothing to suggest a social trend of pushing back against wishful reporting. Or one could view such embellishments as low-dose mood meds, added to keep people from getting too depressed, due to chronic over-consumption of news...