Don't listen to jimmy, the progression and UI is not that horrible that the rest of improvements are not worth it. S&P2 is a shit game that is even more P2W than this. This one is balanced around having all donation boosts active. not around paying like S&P2.
may get a lot of hate for this but, the dev did not screw us over, we can export out game to his site if we want artifacts. Now that's not saying that he pulled an asshole move but from his point of view, it makes a lot of sense to do this since he'll get more money but doing it.
@Meteora2006 it seems you don't realize other than lemonade that the higher priced items have a lower cost multiplier, .07 then .15 then .14 and so on til oil when the multiplier becomes .07 again
lolz @JacobG7; but that red bar is your manger's stress level really; the longer the red bar the faster that busness is while you're holding the button down but it'll cost a hundredth of your current buy 1 price of that busness if it fills completely and it won't produce money untill the red bar is gone and you rehire