Money is just pieces of paper and digital numbers. It's only worth anything because we say it is.
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Yeah, at this point it just some random number you briefly see on the checkout screen.
Big name stores will all move to personalized surveillance pricing. They will track your phone when you go into a store. Cross reference the fingerprint of your device to a database full of data on you that they’ve bought from a databroker. And then use that to jack up the price on the e-price tag if they know you really need that product. Plus they even will change the price on their website when you double check the price.
I went to Lowe's the other day and bought a couple of drill bits. While there, I looked at some cabinet pulls -- didn't buy any or even picked any up, just walked past them and looked at them. That night on Amazon I got ads for drill bits and cabinet pulls. I assume it was something linking store footage with my phone data, but who knows. Maybe I got the neural implant already and the implant makes you forget you got the implant.
Fooled them, I already don’t go into stores. I order everything online. ….. where. … they. …. Probably …. Already …. Do … that
Aight time to stop careyng my phone around to stores.
Only paler lists anymore.
alright i thought I wasn't racist but today i realized i don't like gray people. that's disturbing as fuck.
How much cost a bread, a kg of flour/potatoes? Base on that.
so many things are going on that seem to violate the bullshit i learned in economics school that i am having trouble processing this reality as real, even though i know it is. it's unsettling
Which school of economics did you learn?
bullshit mostly. i was a micro guy not a macro guy.
I get this is just a shit post but this really gets at the unreality that has been manufactured for us. a lack of stability that makes everything just a little bit more unbelievable.
I shouldn't need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.
"When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!"
They were saying that because it was weird to them. Inflation as we know it didn't really start until Nixon.
Big Mac used to be 3.19 back in 2012, now it’s 6.09 but I don’t make double of what I did back then
Yeah but think of how cheap TVs that you don't need are.
No thanks, when companies are doing their hardest to reserve and implement innovations like this, I'll stick with my dumb 2012 TV til either it or I croak.
But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can't cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.
That spy on you and sell your data and then get so slow with updates after a few years you need a new one. And have advertisements baked in
Golly gee, if only there were a way to prevent that by, say, just choosing not to connect your TV to the wifi.
I've never seen so many complaints about a self-inflicted problem.
This isn't going to be an option in the near future. With Amazon sidewalk and other projects setting up open networks, your TV is going to automatically connect to a network whether you like it or not.
I never said I had that problem, I have never connected my TV to the internet. But those are issues with modern day TVs, you can't argue against that
Money isn't real, and humanity will keep enslaving itself until we equally distribute the products of our labor.
Food and housing didn't cost money until we decided it did.
We can decide to change things again.
It doesn't need to be equally. Some people wanna distribute based on need. And some people think if you work extra, you should get a little extra in return.
No, we have enough resources to provide for everyone. Money isn't a game to be won, it's a tool for human beings to extract what they need from human societies.
We have to break that capitalist conditioning.
There will never be a fair system as long as we keep creating different tiers of privlage.
You've never heard of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"?
You should look into Leftism my dude
This is also why we could decide billionaires own nothing.
Bonus:
And yet whenever you try to bring this up you get folks from all sides of the political spectrum losing their shit.
Thank you. Every time someone says "The Economy™" as something that should drive policy instead of being an effect of it, I get a little twitch.
Why should I give a shit about their economy anyway?
Cause whenever it gets fucked, it usually impacts people like you and me.
When articles mention "The Economy" it just means rich people's money.
That's "the stock market".
I use this simple formula:
Fisrt count the number of years Trump is in office, then multiply that by 0.5. Now multiply that by the price you would normally guess the cost to be.
So if Trump is in office for 5 years, and you think something should cost $20 it turns out to be:
(5*0.5)(20)=50
Making that thing that should only cost $20 actually cost $50
How does this formula account for the fact that I can't do math? Bet you didn't think of that.
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