This is straight up #fraud. And as usual, there’s zero consumer protection. Even when caught it’s cheaper to just pay the minuscule fines rather than do anything about it.

The robber barons are back, welcome to the Gilded Age 2.0. This time with even more political power…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs

#capitalsim #oligarchs

How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

The Guardian
Cool, cool, the #ChronicleOfHigherEd wants to charge us 10% more (haggled down from 20%) to support their work on an AI feature we didn't ask for and don't want. #libraries #AI #capitalsim
Dig: Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian

Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 05/20/2025 · 2h 34m

Apple Podcasts

This is just so damn good.

Vivek Chibber gives so many great insights, hot takes, and clear critiques of the contemporary Left's failures and what it means.

#Left #NewLeft #academia #socialism #politics #history #class #ClassTourism #capitalsim #marxism #VivekChibber

https://youtu.be/kE8K9w3-b9U?si=vwitWBb-Br4-VQZR

Vivek Chibber: How the Left Got Lost | Doomscroll

YouTube
Luigi Mangione Sparked GOVERNMENT MONITORING of Those "Negative" Toward Health Insurance Companies

YouTube
Fascism is a necessary consequence of hierarchy and top down decision making on the economic level. #facism #capitalsim #faultydesign #democracy

Just read an article where the author's solution to why many Americans are barely living paycheck-to-paycheck is to:

* "Save more!"
* "Live within your means!"
*"Stop impulse buying due to
FOMO (Uuugh)"

Here's a very expedient solution never put on the table:

*"Make the wealthy and
corporations PAY THEIR DAMN
TAXES!" along with
"*Close all the loopholes in the
U.S. tax
code allowing corporations and
rich asses not to pay taxes!"

This alone would do a great deal to resolve income inequality.

But no, let's demonize those struggling financially who already pay a disproportionate share of government taxes.

#incomeinequality #anticapitalism
#capitalsim

Monthly ration per Polish citizen in the mid 80s. Now they have #capitalsim so they can’t afford the food that is in the shops.
Sport: what's it all about then. Those who have the biggest sponsorship win. The dead weight of sponsorship #Win #sponsorship #Alcohol #capitalsim #Marketing #Advertising #consumerism #sport #football #Satire
Dozens gather in Halifax in support of striking Pete's Frootique workers | CBC News

An enthusiastic crowd gathered on Dresden Row in downtown Halifax Sunday afternoon for a solidarity rally in support of striking Pete's Frootique workers.

CBC