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What even is money at this point (infosec.pub)
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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

A strange thing to me, and maybe I'm thinking about it incorrectly, is that things on Amazon sometimes cost significantly less than in the store. My hair products are easily 5 dollars cheaper than the store. I hate Amazon and I realize I am paying for delivery, but I just don't get the economics of that.

Also, I live close to the US border and I will clothing shop there,it's WAY cheaper, and let's face it, it's all made in sweat shops regardless so might as well save a buck. Honestly department store pricing is just rigged, like if you go with the coupons and app offers and long weekend sales, etc, I can get a ton of clothes for under 400 dollars, which would not get me far at all in Canada, easily I quadruple the amount of clothes I can buy, even factoring for the exchange rate. When I read the receipt, everything is knocked off and under 25 dollars at the end of the sale. I don't get it.

[–] DudenessBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Money is just pieces of paper and digital numbers. It's only worth anything because we say it is.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, at this point it just some random number you briefly see on the checkout screen.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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.

https://youtube.com/shorts/PL1d0xiHRhg

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

Probably not video, just pinpoint geofencing on your phone.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

Bought a brand of iced tea I never had before in the drugstore one day with cash, no points card or anything, got an ad on Instagram half an hour later. I had microphone and location turned off on Instagram, and location turned off on my phone altogether as I only turn it on when using the maps app.

Once glanced at a carton of soup broth in the store, just like you, got an ad on Facebook for it that night. Again location and microphone off, and I didn't even touch it. I don't use face recognition or biometrics or voice assistant stuff at all ever.

Once was cleaning up my desk and found a business card for my old manager. I tapped it against the keyboard for some reason of my desktop computer. This was a paper business card, and I only worked for her for a bit, and she popped up as a suggested friend on Facebook that day. I had never looked her up and hadn't thought of her in years.

So what's all that about?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Fooled them, I already don’t go into stores. I order everything online. ….. where. … they. …. Probably …. Already …. Do … that

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Aight time to stop careyng my phone around to stores.

Only paler lists anymore.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

alright i thought I wasn't racist but today i realized i don't like gray people. that's disturbing as fuck.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Which school of economics did you learn?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

bullshit mostly. i was a micro guy not a macro guy.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 hours ago

How much cost a bread, a kg of flour/potatoes? Base on that.

[–] Quexotic 24 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I shouldn't need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.

"When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!"

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

They were saying that because it was weird to them. Inflation as we know it didn't really start until Nixon.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 8 minutes ago

When I worked there in the late 90s, a Big Mac MEAL was 3.14 after tax.

I worked in Drivethrough checkout a lot and a lot of those prices are burned into my mind, half the time I was not near the register when taking orders and giving totals when it was slow.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah but think of how cheap TVs that you don't need are.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can't cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 138 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Bonus:

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 hours ago

And yet whenever you try to bring this up you get folks from all sides of the political spectrum losing their shit.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You've never heard of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"?

You should look into Leftism my dude

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

This phrase is the basis for enforcing an equal society, not an excuse to establish a different type of economic caste system.

Doctors will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.

Engineers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.

Sanitation workers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.

There is no situation where a caste system results in a more equal society than just equal wealth distribution.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

This is also why we could decide billionaires own nothing.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10???

Yes.

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