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The reality where people cannot afford $10-20 things. And the corporations just start charging those poor people interest.
Being poor is expensive.
Of course. How else do you keep poor people poor and rich richer.
Poor people: charge them extra for not affording things.
Rich people: let them buy things they don’t need but can afford and then charge poor people to rent those things.
Rich people: just give them expensive stuff in the hopes that they’ll buy more expensive stuff from you later.
You see, it’s funny because life is a late stage capitalist hellscape from which I cannot wake 😐
Born too late to buy a house.
Born too soon to be forced to evacuate your city because of the rise of sea levels.
Born just in time to see the deaths of the major democracies in the world.
As Ben Shapiro so perfectly put it:
If the sea level rises, just sell your house and leave
If you’re willing to buy a flooded underwater house let me know, i have a deal for you 👌
It was an intentional reference to a nonsense argument by Ben Shapiro, famously mocked.
I’ll do it. I’ll just remove the flood with my mop.
Facts and logic be like /s
Facts don’t care about your floods and natural catastrophes
Also known as acts of god- so as long as you’re on god’s good side, those things won’t happen, and if they do, well obviously you did something to piss off god so you deserve it. QED.
The kingdom of atlantis needs housing. We just need to get a hold of aqua man.
You’ll have to wait. He’s a little tide up right now.
You might still be born in time for that second one.
Lucky us
Look on the bright side, if Putin and Trump start launching the nukes in a dick measuring contest, you will probably die of radiation poisoning long before sea level rise affects you.
I still hope for a quick one with the shock wave from the explosion, still…
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Assuming the finance a pizza bit is true, it’s a sign that the American economy is on the brink of a deflationary spiral. Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts, and then the capital to create more debt will dry up, resulting in the amount of money in the economy drying up as well. Businesses will be forced to lower prices and scale back operations, which will result in rising unemployment. Which in turn will result in even less money in the economy, perpetuating the circle.
Thats the nature of an economy where most currency circulating is actually just debt.
It’s not unlike the economies of ancient Mesopotamia. A farmer who wanted beer would write a promissory note for a few bushels of barley in some clay and give it to the brewer. The brewer could then either wait to collect it at harvest, or trade that note with someone else for something they needed. This would be passed around until it ended up in the hands of people with real wealth, and if the farmer couldn’t pay the wealthy person would take whatever they wanted.
It’s thought that this is why in many near Eastern societies women are expected to dress plainly, as they wouldn’t be chosen when the rich asshole showed up to collect on his debt. One way some societies solved this problem without violence or slavery was to eliminate all debts every several years.
This is from David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” and I highly recommend it.
In the bible, the regular elimination of all debt was called the “Jubilee”
Which is just another way all the conservative Christians decrying the elimination of student loans are hypocrites who’ve never actually read their book
It’s not even like they are struggling financially These big companies just want more to the point of sinking there business because they got a fraction less profit that year
Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts
JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America have already had to write off $4.5 billion in debt that won’t be repaid.
EVA nautilus live is basically exploring space irl. Except it’s the bottom of the ocean. They stream every day.
It’s wild that I can’t tell if financing a pizza is real or not
Oh man, and it’s from Uber. So not only do they want you to pay for the pizza, and interest, they want you to pay up to 100% more for delivery. They used to deliver these things for free, in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza was free too. The enshitification continues!
They used to deliver these things for free, in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza was free too.
I guess that too now kinda falls into the “too late to buy your own house” thing
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It’s real. IIRC you can make 4
payments over 6 weeks.
No man’s sky is actually a pretty cool game.
Agreed I need to play it more
Thanks trickle down economics!
You’re not born to early to explore space, just too poor!
Like a credit card?
Can’t wait to buy a pizza on layaway!
At the current rate of humans regressing to the past, we’ll never venture out into space in the way we’d all hope.
Still not as messed up as paying for groceries in installments…
