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    The reason billionaires exist is because people like you and me are overcharged for everything we purchase so they can accumulate the surplus.

    The reason why we don’t do anything about it is because we evaluate that we get good value for our money in most situations.

    What is that evaluation based on? Our past experiences…

    But the only experiences we have to evaluate what our money is worth is us being charged enough that the rich people at the top accumulate an unreasonable amount of wealth.

    We never have an experience where those leeches at the top aren’t present to artificially inflate the price of things so we can actually realize how much we’re supposed to be able to get for our money!

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        I’ve tried Temu a few times. The quality is such garbage even calling it Chinese crap doesn’t do it justice. It’s basically from doorstep to landfill.

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          Yeah I didn’t think Chinese knockoffs could get any worse.

          Many products on there basically copy photos of a product and replicate how it looks with the cheapest materials possible.

          I got a few good deals but understand it’s NOT going to be high quality tier stuff

          So I buy things I’m willing to just toss if it’s no good. I do a refund and they’ll tell me to keep it. Then it goes into the trash.

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          It’s literally the same drop shipped stuff on temu. You can order from “local warehouses” and it’s literally the same products. Amazon USES drop shipping. They don’t own it.

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        6 for 75ct. Eurocent, so in USD it’s a whopping 81ct. Tax inclusive. Available in both scratchy and gentle.

        If supermarkets get away with charging those kinds of prices there’s two things to do: a) Raid each and every HQ to see whether you can nail them for collusion, b) price controls.

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    Its a built in feedback loop. Under capitalism, resources are distributed based on capital. But capital is a resource. So its naturally going to concentrate.

    We need hard caps on wealth

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    Perhaps my first controversial post here. Hmm. No, I’ll be decent. But seriously? Fuck the elites. Fuck them hard.

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    Twitter mob: Protect rich minority at all cost! Feed the billioners!

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    Nah but it’s the poor woman and child fleeing crime & poverty from south of the border who is the problem!!! /s

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    Taxes won’t fixe this, but an 18th century invention might.

    As long as the rich have the means of wealth generation they will always come ahead no matter how much you tax them. They will always buy back the system. Now if those means were somehow communalized then things could change once and for all.

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    This is a completely meaningless figure…

    I really hate when articles come out with this kind of data. Huge numbers like this without any context just mean nothing. Ok, 42 trillion$, how much money did they already have? How much percent did their fortunes increase? Is that more or less than inflation?

    It’s just a meaningless huge number that has no intention other than to shock, certainly not to inform or they would have given actually useful numbers that would actually let you have an idea whether it’s that bad or not…

    I hate that people keep falling for nonsens like this… Just post a huge number without any context or any other numbers needed to be able to make sense of it, and everyone is like “omfgwtfbbq, this is SOOOO bad”! Is it? It’s perfectly possible that this isn’t even enough to keep up with inflation, and they’re technically poorer, probably not, but we’ll never know from this useless article…

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        Ah yes, i can’t critisize such stupid articles without opposing their message… I’d love more equality, and agree that something should be done about it.

        I just would love to see actually useful numbers that mean something when we make a fuss about it rather than useless info like this that is meaningless.

        How you interpreted my message as bootlicking is beyond me, but i guess you’re a youngling that interprets any critique as an attack?