Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.

veganpizza69@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LengAwaits@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All this time I thought we’d eat the rich. Turns out they’ll eventually just eat each other instead.

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  • Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They will eat us

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    • LengAwaits@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      will? They have feasted upon us.

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s a bit like agario really

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, this is the rich trying to rest the middle class.

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• huginn@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also known as wealth hoarding.

  The rich get richer…

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Private taxation” is just price gouging.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Progressive

  Oh you sweet summer child…

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  • eltrain123@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Progressive taxes are not the same as ‘progressive’ in terms of social politics.

    Progressive taxes are how our tax brackets work. The more you make, the more you pay. This is them saying private companies will use progressive taxation as their model for pricing goods.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I know. You’re a sweet summer child if you think these algorithms will be used to consistently make wealthier people pay more, as opposed to (for example) charging poor people without cars more because they can’t as easily go to a different store.

      They will exploit every customer to the maximum extent that they can. Rich customers may have more ability to pay, but they also have more resiliency and options to resist the exploitation.

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