Dealing with knock on effects of a vindictive rapist trying to dismantle the global economy because he lost a popularity contest. Possibly at the behest of his russian handlers who want to fill the power gap.
And its gonna get a whole lot worse.
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
What the fuck are we even doing at this point, as a society?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Zorque@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.
omarfw@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s post-capitalism. Capitalism was only ever capable of bringing about merit based class mobility temporarily before the sociopaths all trickled to the top over the decades and then and shut that shit down. Neo-feudalism is the inevitable result, and that will eventually be dismantled by another working class revolution.
All economies have lifespans.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The hard times are coming, so we’ll have to be hardened.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
TBH I’d just say were seeing capitalism approach its final inevitable form.
omarfw@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That’s essentially what I’m saying. It will always end up this way. Whether we call it late stage or post capitalism or just capitalism is irrelevant. It’s a system that empowers sociopathy and sociopaths will always choose to enrich themselves at the expense of the country and it’s citizens.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, wasn’t disagreeing with you. Capitalism is a fundamentally unsustainable system, it’s always going to eventually metastasise into a situation where a very few control almost all of the resources and the vast majority are desperate and impoverished. There might be meritocratic aspects to it in its early stages, but later on skills, talents and hard work won’t get you shit unless you’re rich.
nico198X@piefed.europe.pub 21 hours ago
the snake is eating its tail. but ppl won't rise up until they are literally dying.
so do what you can in your own life to mitigate these impacts on you and yours.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This is really insightful and very good advice
It fucking sucks how much this point illustrates the reality of this time. But it’s upsettingly accurate
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is just classic shrinkflation. Your bottle of shampoo comes in 32 ounces, they shrink it to 24 ounces without changing the price, then later they come out with 32 ounce bottles again with a higher price and a sticker that says, “Now with 33% more!” to make it seem like they’re giving you so much shampoo; and then the cycle repeats.
slate@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
No, it’s not. Consoles (and technology in general) historically trend cheaper over time. Demand lowers, manufacturing cost lowers, newer tech releases, costs adjust to accommodate.
It’s very abnormal that the current gen of consoles has not only not gotten cheaper yet, but have actually raised in price. Like, very very abnormal.
Shrinkflation is a real thing, but historically it has nothing to do with consoles.
missingno@fedia.io 1 hour ago
In addition to what others have said about Moore's Law slowing down, there's also just the fact that console generations themselves are slower. The cheapest price cuts on old consoles were fire sale prices to clear out old stock when they were on their way out. Even though the PS5 has been on the market for about as long, it still feels like the generation is only beginning, we won't be talking about PS6 for a long time yet.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yes, but Moore’s Law has broken down, and the things that used to allow for consoles to get cheaper over time, via new revisions, are not holding true anymore. So in lieu of those things, we’ve got classic shrinkflation.
Valmond@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
A 1TB SSD is 60€. In a shop.
They’re like cheaping out 6 bucks here
paraphrand@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Node shrinks drove a lot of this those have stopped being such large leaps.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I have a theory.
None of this is real. It’s a simulation thats been abandoned. And now, all the errors are compounding.
stoy@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Stagnation ahead of a major societal shift?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Transistors aren’t getting cheaper, and the industry doesn’t know how to deal with that. They’re still in the mindset that Moore’s Law has continued and will continue.
Then some clown convinced a bunch of people that he should be in charge of things, and he thought tariffs were a valid economic tool.