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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • udon@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    6 days ago

    This can have an effect in exactly two ways:

    1. retailers lose a bit of profit because they cannot optimize their staffing for this one day. They might be a little less profitable because they have one person at work who is not needed, for example. They might also get mad customers the next day when everybody goes back shopping and they haven’t prepared for it. Similarly, they might have to throw away a few fresh products and not have them in stock later.

    2. if (and only if) people buy the stuff they need somewhere else instead. If this is about grocery shopping, well, you need groceries at some point. Doesn’t matter much for the retailer when you buy it (apart from 1), as long as you buy it consistently at their place.

    I support the protest, but if you want to make an impact, use that day to find alternative places to do your shopping in the future.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Same BS every year
    3·
    10 days ago

    Just look at high tax countries, like Sweden, Finland, Norway. They are pretty functional, although not perfect, with pretty well-working social systems. Look at countries that are all about avoiding taxes like… the US. Look at the UK, and what Thatcherism did to it. Social services are falling apart, if still existing at all.

    Whoever says taxes are a problem, implicitly says schools, streets, firefighters, … should be privately owned. And guess who would be the private owners and what they are going to do with prices :)

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Same BS every year
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    11 days ago

    Well, again, the taxes are not the problem, but the bad design of the deduction process. The war on taxes, especially in the US but also in Europe, is a strategy from the right and neoliberals to cut down on social welfare and essentially redistribute money to the rich.

    Taxes are good and important, but it’s difficult to figure out what to tax and by how much, and how to use the money well.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Friends who have babies
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    17 days ago

    It also ignores the many, many cases where children lose touch with their parents for various reasons, or the possibility that people care for each other without being forced to. Fortunately children (and spouses as well!) today can do whatever they want, leave their parents/partners if they try to emotionally blackmail them through wedding or blood contracts, and instead care for nice people.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•eggs in japan
    4·
    25 days ago

    To be fair though, February 10 is not exactly strawberry season. So that blame in part goes to this annoying “nature” dude, who came up with “seasons” and shit just to raise prices.

    The general point is true, though. Same with apples right now… you look away one second, they jump from 200 to 400円 each 😐

    At least (well, debatable) the fruit don’t shrink away at the same time like all the other goods.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Uniquely American
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    26 days ago

    Both are true, of course. Working smart is of course easier if you have options other than working at McDonalds vs. Burger King, and if you can grow in them. If you don’t have too many pressing needs that are so immediate that you can’t spend time on the side studying etc.

    It’s good to be born with the privilege of being able to take time off or do your work in a smarter way, but that is a privilege not everyone has