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• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  “Product hoarding” conflicts with wealth hoarding. The only logical solution is to make less durable products that quickly wear out with frequent use.

  That way consumers are forced to spend more and contribute more to the hoarded wealth of individuals who know very well they won’t be able to spend their fortunes before they die. However their desire for more and more wealth to hoard is limitless because it acts as s useless status symbol amongst other wealth hoarders.

  When consumers become concerned about skyrocketing cost of living and wealth inequality, the wealth hoarders will remind them they’re lazy and greedy. If they didn’t want to be poor they should have worked harder (like them) or been more careful not to spend all their money on “frivolous purchases.”

  However if consumers don’t spend enough money on frivolous purchases, they’re not being smart, they’re “product hoarding.” When consumers don’t have money to spend, but the wealth hoarders continue to churn out shitty products that they know nobody will buy, the economy will collapse.

  The wealth hoarders could afford to take the hit. It might even help them understand cause and effect, so they don’t just keep making the same mistakes in the future. They could even use some of their hoarded wealth to get themselves out of the hole they dug by just giving it to the consumers to spend on their own products. But instead, they’re usually just given a bailout because they’re too big to fail.

  After all, the economy would collapse without them…

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• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Counterpoint: Linux on the desktop works now

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Linux is famously both American and Corporate /s

    But yeah sytsem76 and valve are both american and valve is corporate. And around Lemmy you would think they are the only ones responsible for the Linux boom.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s a little bit of both of those nowadays with all the corporate maintainers and the fact that the Linux Foundation is headquartered in the US and Torvalds lives in the US too

      But really it’s still a global effort

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hannah Montana Linux can run code on time itself and create whatever you want from nothing.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Actually, everything is working as intended

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  • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I feel like the tiny little uptick in the red line at the end is just a lie to try to give us a smidge of hope.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This single diagram really tells you all you ever need to know. And yet a lot of people in the bottom 50% think that the gays or refugees are to blame for their problems.

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    • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      all you ever need to know

      There is a line missing, for the 0.001%.

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    • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And they also might magically become the 1%

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  • Aberration13@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now lets see it adjusted for the real value of the dollar over time! :D

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh dear god I had not seen that graph updated in some years.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    WTF happened in 1971?

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      LBJ wanted to have social spending and have a massive knockout punch in Vietnam. Instead of a knockout punch, the War turned into a massive quagmire. It was costing the US a fortune, but LBJ didn’t want to raise taxes, so he printed money. Nixon got elected and doubled down on the War and using inflation to pay for it. The4n the OPEC oil embargo hit and inflation went through the roof.

      Jimmy Carter’s plan [controlled by Fed chair Paul Volker] solved inflation, but by the time it kicked in Carter had been replaced by Reagan. Reagan deregulated a lot of industries and let them run wild.

      In 1968, ‘middle class’ was defined as one Union job supporting a family of four. At that time $1 million was a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. was out, ‘middle class’ meant two incomes to run the home, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.

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    • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apparently it’s so common a question it’s made into a domain wtfhappenedin1971.com

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Republicans. Go figure.

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    • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      after a bit of a search, Nixon happened

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    • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there’s a how history words vid on the subject youtu.be/HchNA3a9L5E I dunno if it tackles your question tho, as if haven’t watched

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When it’s not working, it’s working.

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s because of all the wokeness.

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It all turned to shit.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obviously. Once we ban trans girls from playing volleyball, all our problems will be solved.

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• Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My car runs forever and my tires run even when flat. Nah bro

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “We have finally eliminated planned obsolescence. We have replaced it with instant obsolescence.”

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  do you have the latest software update though?

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And yet the somehow charge more for it.

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tuned for optimal exploitation.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I sometimes ask people, “Do you think that in 500 years, capitalism will still govern the world? Is capitalism the last system we will ever see, and is it the single best system humanity as a species could possibly come up with?”

      And they are just dumbfounded and don’t know what to say, because they can’t even imagine the concept of an alternative.

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well that's good news. Now I can finally relax. I'm going to go lay down in my back yard, that is nothing but dry dirt, and stare up at the pollution clouds in the sky.
  Good time, good times.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oooh look at Mr. Fancy over here with a dry dirt yard and pollution clouds in the sky! We used to dreeeeam about dry dirt yards and pollution clouds, instead we were happy in our pit of acid rain, and we didn’t complain, either!

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism still works!

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cars are vastly more reliable. Clearly you weren’t around for carbs.

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  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but I can fix a carburetor with a wrench and a screwdriver. Can’t do that with modern cars.

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      starting to not even be able ro change their brakes

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you aware that next to your name are two red warning triangles telling everyone you’re of dubious character?

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    • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I don’t see the triangles. Is it because I have trials too? Now I’m paranoid.

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. There is a huge echo chamber here who don’t like when things like, cars being objectively more reliable, are pointed out.

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• sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like the author xe cution

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