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.
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What the fuck are we even doing at this point, as a society?
nico198X@piefed.europe.pub 3 weeks ago
cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
omarfw@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TBH I’d just say were seeing capitalism approach its final inevitable form.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The hard times are coming, so we’ll have to be hardened.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
A 1TB SSD is 60€. In a shop.
They’re like cheaping out 6 bucks here
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Node shrinks drove a lot of this those have stopped being such large leaps.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
missingno@fedia.io 2 weeks 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.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Stagnation ahead of a major societal shift?
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 2 weeks ago
Making rich people richer at the expense of our dignity.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.