Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system

crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground. Because, yes, a store is unused at night.

  It’s about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be, because we are looking at the situation from a capitalistic ideology point of view.

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think the beds are the problem. Housing a single person takes much more resources than just a single bed. Those resources are scarce.

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    • hswolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are not, we have everything we need for all the 8 billion people living on this rock

      sharing.org/information-centre/…/enough-everyone

      The first problem is the word “profit”, most people who can make astronomical differences, wont move a finger if there’s no profit in It.

      The second problem is logistics, it’s hard to get things around the globe in an organized fashion, and this is usually overcome with big incentives, which brings us to the first problem again.

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground.

    If you let a guy sleep on it, then you can’t sell it. Who would buy it? The bed isn’t “not being used”, it’s not being used as a bed.

    It’s about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be

    There’s nothing inefficient about this allocation of resources.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Showroom beds are usually not the beds that are actually sold. The beds that get sold sit in storage.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The chances that person has bedbugs is non-zero. The chances they haven’t showered are also not exactly low. Putting them in a showroom bed could ruin it.

        I really want a solution to house people because it’s an untenable situation, but ‘let them sleep in a bed showroom’ is not a good solution.

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh, bed stores are a particularly ridiculous waste of resources. The average bed store sells like 6-8 mattresses a month, which is inefficient and dumb.

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• vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Capitalism is when an employed man sleeps outside the mattress shop

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is the guy in the picture employed?

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      many unhoused people are

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    • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone has to be employed somewhere. Otherwise we would kill ourselves and return to cannibalism.

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Capitalism is when 27 empty houses per a homeless person, that are used as investments for the rich to play around with their imaginary numbers, while 99% of population struggle to survive.

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  • Fitik@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "99%"
    You only prove how delusional commies are

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m glad that the only problem with my comment you have is that number. Yeah, it might be described as slightly less than that, depending on how you define struggling, some people are perfectly fine with being one medical emergency away from a bankruptcy, and not struggling at all about it. But for the broader point it doesn’t matter, really.

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tell us what you think the definition of “communism” is.

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Communism is when made-up stats

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  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you think society could be better if the rich weren’t forced to invest because their money is constantly being devalued by government and bankers?

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why are you gargling ruling class cum?

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The society would be better if we collectively eat everyone who is hoarding money above some level. Physically, literally, eat them, with mustard and mayo.
      But since that probably isn’t happening anytime soon, we have to make them stop playing their stupid fucking games with things that humans need to survive, like, for example, housing. Let them buy and sell and invest and shortly squeeze to the moon whatever bullshit people don’t use, yachts for example. But when they do it with real life stuff it’s harmful for the humanity

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I interpreted the picture overly literally to the point it loses its meaning. I’m very smart”

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You missed the entirety of the point.

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