To that homeless person, yes that’s exactly what a mattress store is.
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dwalin@lemmy.world 9 months agoI 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
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Especially because unless you’ve solved the limited resources problem, then even in a utopia you’re still going to have to have something like money, and therefore you will still have things that some people have that other people don’t have.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What essential resources are so limited that we can’t provide them to everyone based on need?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which things? Because all historical sources show that the bottom 10% had all the bare necessities for life. They didn’t have luxury apartments, but they had a roof. They weren’t eating steak every night, but they had more caloric input and healthier diets than the US.
Fal@yiffit.net 9 months ago
The problem isn’t lack of shelter. There’s enough shelter available for the homeless. They just choose not to use it because it comes with rules like no drugs and (often) no pets.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how capitalism works. It very much is a “fuck you look at our expensive shit” society.
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’ll probably be sold at a discount too since it was for display
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
For probably still more money than street sleeping homeless guy can afford of we are being honest.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Right but equally it’s not the mattress company’s job to accommodate the homeless person. It’s not like they didn’t have to pay an inflated price from the manufacturer so if they sold it for the price of the materials they’d probably make a loss.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
No of course not. I’m not saying that the homeless guy should be in the store, I’m saying it’s out of his reach even for the floor model.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ew, they would sell you a display bed? Seems, unhygienic.
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I mean I don’t even wanna know how often the average person changes their sheets, let alone their mattress. My parents have mattresses in spare bedrooms older than me.
Honestly though, display beds aren’t as scary to me as hotel beds
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
SPARE BEDROOMS?!! By this you mean they have beds to spare and yet are not allowing unhoused individuals to sleep in them?? How very dare they. Guest rooms should be illegal. Everyone with a bedroom to spare gets a mini homeless shelter in their house.
lemann@lemmy.one 9 months 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