• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Turns out when a bunch of bigots and corporations throw their weight in behind a low IQ felon rapist to make a profit or simply to hurt others, things go off the rails for everyone.

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    11 hours ago

    McDonald’s is selling paper thin beef and costs more than your local cafe here in Australia

    The standard has dropped a lot. I only go on a long car trip

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      I don’t even go when on a long car trip anymore. I’d rather pay just as much for a less american chain

      hell even McDonald’s closes the doors after 11pm now and is drive through only. the last thing they had going for them was that they had a washroom available when driving at night. now I’ll still go to the less american chain since there’s literally nothing McDonald’s offers that they don’t. well, nothing good anyways

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        For me, it’s generally when I travel up to hotham (a 4hour trip). As I need fuel too and always tend to stop at the same servo.

        But yeah, I remember my first big Mac probably 25 years ago. It was incredible. Now it’s a limited edition

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    Whirlpool CEO can fuck the fuck off after this douchecanoe pushed for washing machine tariffs and then proceeded to raise their own prices raised to match the competitors resulting in all washers AND dryers by over a hundred dollars on average. And then they also proceed to layoff factory workers while complaining that people weren’t buying US made goods.

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    14 hours ago

    They’ll say the same thing in the 2030s after replacing all of their workers with AI once they realize that those workers are also consumers 🤯.

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      If you had to choose between

      1. infinite money, or

      2. money being worthless, and you having an army of robots that would do whatever you want and no one else having anything,

      which would you choose?

      Because I think that a lot of people are thinking that it’s a question of JUST infinite money versus worthless money, and no, there’s another part to this.

      It involves breaking the system and worldwide universal slavery for literally everyone except the people at the top.

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    18 hours ago

    “We have priced a good portion of the population out of being our customers. If there was only something we could do. I know! Let’s ask the shareholders. They seem like a reasonable bunch who would not expect continued yearly profits for all eternity.” /s

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      Come on, this isn’t a realistic solution. ONE guillotine? It would have to be running day and night to make a difference, and it would be down for maintenance half the time. We have captured bolt pistols like in No Country for Old Men now. We don’t need to use 18th century technology.

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        Fine industrial size woodchipper BUT we get to use the guillotine symbolically for the special guests

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          Good to hear you say “industrial size”-- getting too small of a chipper is a classic mistake.

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    24 hours ago

    Who would have thought that if all wealth is in the hands of a few billionaires, there is no wealth left for all that can be milked…

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    Wait so trump’s 5D chess economics plan to lower prices by making everyone run out of money is working!

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      19 hours ago

      But billionaires aren’t the main consumer base for these brands. They buy boutique appliances and health foods more than they buy sodium laced chipped meat products and mom-and-pop’s favorite dishwasher.

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        For sure, I was just saying that the people who buy this stuff’s money is tied up with the billionaires

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          Absolutely - you’re right. I just mean that these brands are complaining that they don’t benefit from their own CEOs having all the money, which is kind of amusing

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      The 1% accounts for 60% of spending. But they are all over leveraged or waiting for the inevitable crash so they can buy everything cheap and increase their hoard.

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    You mean the parasite class is having money trouble because the peasants aren’t buying? How dare they opt for cheaper options when they can barely afford rent! Don’t they know it’s paramount to society that they slave away to engorge those who already have too much???

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    Make your slop cheaper or fuck off. These people really are stupid. They are greedy and lack basic positive human traits but otherwise they are just stupid.

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      There is one more option. Make it better for the same price.

      Bwahahahha they will never do that, nevermind