Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system

Fal@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s not a contradiction. Your, my, and everyone’s bed is for sleeping in. The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth. This displays the harsh efficiencies of capitalism, because the people in the most need for a bed cannot afford to have one.

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  • dwalin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I belive the beds in a store that sells beds are either to be sold or to help you choose a bed. They are not “fuck you, see how many beds i have” beds

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’ll probably be sold at a discount too since it was for display

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For probably still more money than street sleeping homeless guy can afford of we are being honest.

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      • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ew, they would sell you a display bed? Seems, unhygienic.

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      • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        100%. I have yet to see somewhere that sells display furniture/appliances at full price, usually they knock some off due to shop guests messing around with it, wear and tear

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To that homeless person, yes that’s exactly what a mattress store is.

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what everything everywhere is. Many folks in communist countries lack things others have too.

        Only in a hypothetical utopia could all persons have all things equally.

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how capitalism works. It very much is a “fuck you look at our expensive shit” society.

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  • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth

    ...selling people beds so they have beds to sleep in. Beds that aren't riddled with bugs thanks to the store not being a homeless shelter.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re assuming selling beds is the only method to distribute them. That’s simply untrue.

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      • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Best method we have found so far. If you want cookie cutter efficient ass state made beds you can move off to the.... Well, every state who has tried has collapsed so you're shit out of luck.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So beds in the store are for accumulation of wealth but then when someone buys them they’re for sleeping in? Deep

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I do understand the sentiment but the thing is a lot of homelessness isn’t because people don’t have money not exactly. They may have support systems that they can make use of but if they have other problems they may not be inclined to use those support systems.

    You can’t just blame capitalism for homelessness, not exclusively.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which systems do you have in mind? Because homeless shelters are not a solution to homelessness.

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      • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But mattress stores are?

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    • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You kinda can. Capitalism provides no incentive to help this man (actually, it provides a disincentive because the time and/or money needed to help this man could be spent on more profitable endeavors). The support structures that may exist are not capitalistic, are disincentived, and obviously not adequate.

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Personally I blame it for the bulk of it in my country. We have a massive housing crisis caused by housing unafordability.

      The middle class here mainly invest in rentals (not stockmarket) and then use them as AirBnBs that sit empty half the time.

      Meanwhile whole families are living in garages or worse, cars. People who are sane and ordinary and work are living in substandard shitholes.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who are the people in most need for a bed? Isn’t that need relatively equal? I mean, I guess when I was younger I didn’t really need one, but now I’m a wreck without one. I know some guys with copd that only sleep in chairs, so maybe their need is on low end.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The people without beds, followed by the people that need to replace their beds, followed by people that want to receive a bed for any other reason.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just because I have a bed doesn’t mean I don’t need one. If I didn’t need it I wouldn’t keep it

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ROFL!

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      agreed, it’s pretty funny that someone thought that was a contradictory statement

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So… you think they should give beds away? Thats hilarious!

        Look kid, capitalism sucks. No one with a functioning brain is going to argue against this point. But going full bore extreme to the opposite side is just a fucking stupid.

        You’ll understand this when you grow up

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If anything this guy is a lot less in need of a bed than someone who hasn’t trained themselves to be able to sleep in a doorway (to wit, me.)

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there like an Uber for this?

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  • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t give Airbnb ideas

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, if people don’t have homes because they don’t have money, they wouldn’t have money for a bed uber either.

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a GrInD eCoNoMy oLd mAn.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Grindr is uber for warm, lubricated holes.

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  • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that’s just called splitting rent with someone who works nights

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are you so intent on defending the ruling class? You aren’t in their group. You’re a broke ass like the rest of us and you never will achieve anywhere near enough wealth to forget that.

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  • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So just because the “ruling class” is shitty and there needs to be change, we should just be allowed to make stupid, embarrassing statements that show a complete lack of understanding of society or economics?

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