like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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    That’s the end result of a capitalist system once corporations have superseded governments in power. It will only get worse.

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      Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US… this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.

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        What’s funny is that this is entirely unsustainable. If they were in any way a real “capitalist” they would realize that the creeping authoritarianism they’re pushing destroys economies long-term. They’re laughing all the way to the bank right now because they’re not concerned with the future.

        However, they should be, because this House of Cards can easily collapse with the right push. They literally can’t see past the profits at the end of the next quarter.

        They literally can’t imagine that all of them choosing to undermine capitalist principles at the same time will result in capitalism failing completely. The only reason it even functioned as well as it did for so long was 1. regulation and 2. raping the third world for resources.

        I mean, I’m a fucking leftist, and it makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills that things are so far gone that I’m actually arguing “if we’re going to do capitalism, we may as well do it in a way that it actually functions properly” as if that is a fucking fringe idea here.

        The wheels are about to fly off this fuckin turkey.

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          Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.

          The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.

          This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.

          To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.

          We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.

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    You load 16 tons, what do you get?

    Another day older and deeper in debt

    St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

    I owe my soul to the company store

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    Huggies went up in price, but their cost of manufacturing actually went down.

    It’s got nothing to do with profit margins, it’s just pure greed. Also, the law requires that publicly traded companies be greedy.

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    because somehow our economic system says that a company is only successful if it’s growing, not if it’s regularly turning a profit every quarter. at least, that’s my understanding of it. so, they have to do something to generate something that looks like growth somehow

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    It’s pretty simple. Because we are all so spoiled and entitled that we won’t even consider NOT buying their shit anymore. It’s the same reason the video game market has grown rampant with micro transactions. They keep pushing the boundaries, and we keep giving them our money regardless of what they do. I’m actually curious to see how far they can push this insanity. They already slap a new year on sports titles every year and somehow sell the same game to the same people annually.

    PUT YOUR WALLET DOWN.