Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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You know your life has gone to shit when you have to finance a pizza.
But most importantly, whichever corporate honchos thought preying on the ultra-poor was a decent thing to do and authorized this scheme, should know they’re worthless human beings.
Probably related to the high prices of delivery services. Maybe people wouldn’t think about financing a pizza if the cost wasn’t tripled by delivery.
I don’t use any delivery service, and I can drive 5 minutes over to Little Caesar’s and get a pizza for about $6, or I can go to Pizza Hut and pick up a better pizza for about $10. But I hear that other people pay vastly higher prices for their unhealthy fast food when they use delivery services.
Domino’s barely even puts sauce on the fucking pizza anymore. Fuck the economy.
Costco pizza is the best. I just wish they had more variety.
Also I wish I could just order on my phone and then pick up when I’m done shopping, rather than having to queue for 15 minutes to order and then wait another 15 while they cook it.
What? We call in a whole pizza order all the time. You can do that.
True, it’s mostly cheese here in Australia.
“You will own nothing and you will be happy about it.” -1100 c.e. The Feudal System
Feudal peasants actually got a decent amount of time off, because the landlords understood that they had to keep the masses happy. Medieval peasants had an average of like four months of vacation time a year. Basically, the ruling class knew that the only thing stopping the peasants from marching up to the castle with pitchforks was the peasants’ own sense of civility.
And by “vacation”, you mean “Time spent working not to pay taxes”
Now dopamine hits are used
My gut says medieval peasants had to use that time on chores. Where can I read about how medieval peasants had like, a good time? And that they weren’t unhappy enough to kill their Lords?
Large if verifiable
Today’s Behind the Bastards is about how Christianity was eaten by capitalism. The super far right propaganda campaign like FOX news and PragerU started before WWII when pastors were all far left champions of the poor. (Contrast today.)
Seems relevant.
FDR’s New Deal was meant to stop the Great Depression from turning into a socialist revolution (We were watching the early USSR play out).
Interesting, I’ve always wondered how American Christianity managed to be so right-wing despite being based on the idea of a rebellious, anti-materialist, proto-socialist, proto-hippie Middle-Eastern figure.
I’m not religious but was raised Christian so the contrast between their interpretation of Christianity and the “teachings of Christ” are baffling.
If you look as religion as padding for the ego instead of an idealistic pursuit, it makes all the more sense.
Maybe the tankies will actually save us. If we can get another red scare going our government might step towards social democracy for a change.
What’s the interest charged? If they’re charging 0% of interest then it could be a good decision if you have an account that pay interest over thar time. Obviously, it also assumed that ypu were already going to buy a pizza anyway.
6 weeks of interest at 0.25%apr compounded daily on a ten dollar pizza is 0.34 cents, or 0.0034 dollars. Might not be worth it, but ymmv.
My APR is 4.26 at Discover, Ally, and Sofi… that’s like 17x the pennies!
If you’re catering some huge event (…with pizza, apparently), it would absolutely make sense.
Cardboard? Are you talking about the pizza, or the build quality of a lot of new houses I’ve seen?
The pizza mostly, but that also fits.
As if advertisement wasn’t already the most insidious part of everyday life, now they’re also laughing at us and the capitalist hellscape they’ve put us in.
Not really capitalism if they got the government’s economic and political support against competitors. I’d really call it Neomercantilism more than anything
...............thats literally what capitalism always does. manipulate the government for economic and political support. Thats like capitalism 101.
If you need to finance a pizza over 6 weeks, you were never going to do the other two things either.
It won’t let you finance under$50 I checked it out. So I imagine this may be for parties but then I’d just buy a bunch of Little Sleazers and call it a day.
I’d just make it myself. You could make it yourself with better ingredients for the price of cheap pizza, or you could slice up veggies and put it on a frozen pizza if you’re not great at cooking
Not a lot cheaper, but so, so much better
Harsh but fair. An average pizza combo would be about 15 bucks.
Having an unhealthy diet and eating 3 daily for a month would be about 1300 USD monthly, about 16k a year.
The median mortgage payment is about 1600 USD and you’d need to save about 2500 USD monthly for a year for an average down payment for a house, of about 30k. In total 4k monthly give or take. Add 4k for col and you have 8k monthly for expenses with no weird shit happening to you, yet
So in order to not be affected by these pizzamania scenario, you’d have to earn and 80k annual salary and be able to save more than half of it monthly.
That’s all assuming you have no weird medical emergencies, which you won’t have.
At least until the diarrea hits
Born to early to experience a capitalist free post scarcity solarpunk utopia
assuming it ever will exist
cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right?! It’s just tricking people into spending money they shouldn’t.
Hank@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's like 99% of what marketing is.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Next they will have Pizza Mortgages and their logical counterpart, the Reverse Pizza Mortgage.
TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
" If you own your pizza, you could qualify for a reverse pizza mortgage!"
aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did anybody at all read the article?
666 people are enrolled in a trial system so that their pizza debts are collected from their estate when they die.
No interest rate or fees.
So…
Basically free pizza for life. It’s not predatory, And it’s insane to me that people post articles, even in a comment, without reading them. Because if you had read the article “predatory” would be the furthest thing for your mind. It’s just a gimmick promotion to increase sales
I definitely wish I was one of those 666 people
cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shit, if everyone signs up for that what’s to stop them from going bankrupt before you have to pay? Also, what stops people from altering the will after the fact?
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Well, they can sell your debt if they go down.