Its so true. Most of you will just blow any money you saved on drugs and hookers anyway.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Euthanized through taxation? Why not euthanize through example? Meet this level of greed and your life is over. Like, this is the line, cross it and die. And if you cross that line, your children don't inherit your wealth. It gets sent to the people hurt by the inherit loss of wages.
I don’t see our ideas as mutually exclusive.
The capital punishment for corporations would function basically as you described, if they’re convicted for heinous behaviour, their capital/assets are seized, and the proceeds from their auction are given to their victims.
Agreed, but I demand the erasure of those people from existence. They're harmful to the existence of our society and population. They need to be removed from society if it is going to continue to function. Otherwise everything fails.
Bloody well said mate
I'm sure the argument is wages. Lower prices means lower wages or less jobs.
Except... 1. not really, not in the long term and 2. it happens anyway
The endgame is that very few people have jobs, and almost nobody can afford to live. Yet a handful of people have so much money that their great great great grandchildren will never have to work a day in their life. It's a slow burn genetic genocide, except that being rich doesn't mean superior genetics. It means that cruelty and luck are considered genetic traits. And they will continue to use that as a basis for superiority, and kill off anyone below them because it benefits their corporate profits.
they will have to keep some slaves around to maintain thier little enclaves in the end.
They'll need a security team to protect them from the slaves.
Then the security team will kill the whole weak rich family and start this shit show over again.
The slaves eventually turn into the tyrants when they take power.
You're gonna need to add like 100 more greats there. These billionaires make more money out of just loans annually than most countries' GDPs. Then their children can continue making even more after their deaths without ever working a day.
Agreed, it's basically feudalism. These shitbags believe they're better because they're born better off. It's like the boys, they feel superior and we're just pawns for their use. But not one of them have had to wield a weapon to defend their position. We need to make them earn their position.
3 If everything costs 25% less with a 10% wage drop that makes everyone effectively richer.
Also, lower wages don't do shit if all the companies revenue goes to the exec c suite
Corporate Headline: "Why you might not want lower prices or higher wages after all"
Me, waving a giant Abolish Money placard: "Bitch, I know!"
Bell Riots need to fuckin happen already so we can get back on track for the Star Trek utopia timeline
We're cutting directly to the Eugenics Wars, unfortunately
Let me guess, deflation disincentivizes consumption so it can lead to a feedback effect that leads to recession?
Pay and wages tied to the rate of inflation would probably preferable; I’m sure congress will get right on it…
Lower prices incentivize consumption though, right? It definitely hurts profits, but people buy lots more pointless shit if they can afford it.
Static lower prices might, but deflation does not. If prices will be lower tomorrow or next week, it's wiser to hold on to your money and buy later.
Sounds good in theory, but I don’t think that holds up in practice. For example, computers getting more affordable and powerful year by year didn’t stop people from buying them.
If the price is lower than the opportunity cost of NOT having it, people will buy it now, even if the product will be priced better next year.
And a large part of the price increases people are struggling with are food and housing. It's not like you can wait till next year to eat or have a place to live.
It’s not like you can wait till next year to eat or have a place to live.
Eat? No waiting. Live? Sure! If prices were consistently falling because of deflation, and you knew renting for a year would allow you to buy a larger house with the exact same amount of money you hand in your hand, most would do that and rent for a bit.
For buying a house, isn’t it kinda like the stock market (except way less liquid). Yeah, the prices may go down in a year but someone may swoop in and buy while you’re sitting on the sidelines trying to time the bottom.
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You're absolutely right. The average Joe does not approach buying stuff with any kind of investment theory.
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Do people really do that? If lettuce got back in the range I was used to paying before, I feel like I'd start buying it again as soon as I noticed.
There have been multiple real world examples of deflation so we don't really have to guess.
There was a somewhat famous example starting in 1929 and extending through the 30s.
It's less about whether you wait to buy food and more whether you decide to stretch your junker car out as long as possible, or put off home improvements because you'll save thousands, or decide to put off capital investments and sit on your cash till it's worth more.
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only if you have money to hold to start with
But even if we could get relief on inflation, the prices wouldn’t keep decreasing by large amounts forever, right? It’s not like cars would eventually cost negative money and they pay you to take them. At some point the expected savings from waiting aren’t enough to justify the pain of doing without the shiny new thing.
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It's not even lower prices, it's more "not increase much faster than salaries".
I mean, I'm perfectly fine with high prices as long as wages rise faster then the prices do...
Tomorrow's article, "New trend among corporate America: Vibe volunteering allows companies to augment staff with enthusiastic citizens who simply want to work without any recognition"
This is exactly how they're going to spin slavery when they eventually succeed in bringing it back.
Cough convict labor cough cough.
I'm fine if the prices stay high, as long as my wage is increased the same amount.
They won't do that either so....
I mean, we already know that WaPo is the mouth piece for Baldy Bezos.
What the what? Seriously? I've never in my life, thought you know what, I'd like to pay more money. This is true of rich or poor.
I've thought that plenty of time when the decision is between local or small business or support a mega corp
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This is what happens when billionaires are allowed to exist
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