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This is what social decline looks like. How does it feel to be at the bottom of society?

He sadly takes the limp broth he mistakes for coffee from his TM. He’s ashamed to offer this to his guests but has nothing better. Soon they will go to where Miele cooks. He knows it and gives them a forced smile.
That’s how it is: yesterday hot, today junk. Lost in thought, he wipes over the TM5, a sign of his social downfall. The budget device, symbol of a lack of performance, outperformed for a measly 8000€. The device for low performers like him. Hartz4-level is now just a Kitchen Aid away.

The new hot stuff is called the "Dialoggarer" (dialog steamer). You no longer even have to converse with your guests yourself, hence "dialog-". The next generation should even be able to receive guests at home while you’re not there. On vacation, or something. The must-have for the WhatsApp generation, where everything can happen asynchronously because you can always and everywhere access everything. The pathetic TM can’t keep up anymore. It’s a relic, a device for people who themselves are relics, discarded by modern society. An ancient internet shopping list printer.

Today everything just happens faster, including the decline. The spot in the sun, bought for a measly 1200 bucks, doesn’t last long. The technology you have to have comes on an annual cycle. He can’t keep up anymore. His neighbors know it too, he notices it in their pitying looks whenever they surface from their iPhone 42xpg+ultra, into which they increasingly dive via VR equipment. Sometimes they don’t even greet anymore. This is social isolation. Where can he still go now? Should he break with his principles and ask Miele for a consumer loan? He almost has no chance left. Can he afford that? Miele or phone? Maybe both? The scrap value of his prehistoric kitchen appliance certainly won’t help him much...

( Chand1986, freshly socially downgraded, musing about himself )

That's how it is: Hot yesterday, junk today. Absentmindedly, he swipes over the TM5, a sign of his social decline. The cheap device, a symbol of poor performance, outperformed for a mere 8000€. The device for low performers like him. Hartz4 level is now only a Kitchen Aid away.

That's how it is. Until yesterday, I didn't even know something like that existed. Now I feel somewhat connected to the TM owners – I already feel a bit of pity in me.

Dialog cooker is the new hot thing. You don't even have to talk to guests yourself anymore, hence "Dialog-". The next generation is supposed to even be able to receive guests at home while you're not there. On vacation, or something.

But you're a LITTLE bit afraid that this will soon become reality... :P

Pah! Next week Aldi Süd will have a Thermomix copy. Under 300 euros. The decline of morals.

Yes, at Aldi the thing is a bad joke. It's like comparing a cheap smartphone with the iPhone. Both can make calls... But that's about it.

Yes, the thing from Aldi is a bad joke. It’s like comparing a cheap smartphone to the iPhone. Both can make calls... but that’s about it.

Hmm... I looked into comparison tests in 2016: the cheap devices aren’t as great as the TM, but they’re supposed to be good too. For regular use, chopping, blending, and cooking, there’s hardly any difference, as far as I remember.
The Lidl one is even supposed to be better than Aldi’s. So, they come close to the performance, but are even cheaper.
But the TM topic has already been thoroughly discussed here.

However, I wouldn’t call every smartphone that’s not an iPhone but cheaper a cheap smartphone, like you are doing now,