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Doug Warren@fgusmao They call it "rent-seeking" but you don't actually get to live anywhere.
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Inflation. Price gouging.
Every time I turn around someone is raising prices.
I will believe inflation has gone down when consumer prices, especially grocery prices stop going up and start going back down.
maxmoon 🌱@fgusmao Is this a technocrats joke, I don't get, like they have apps, which get money frequently (and without having control about it) or because of micro transactions to have some cosmetics, which don't give you any value at all in life?
Vincarsi@utopify_org @fgusmao this.is a rentier joke. Maybe it's not as bad in Europe, but in Canada and America you can't eat, sleep, use the bathroom or even sometimes drink water without someone trying to charge you per use for it. Not only have prices gone up, but the number of things we have to pay extra for that used to be included in a larger purchase seems to grow every year.
@utopify_org @fgusmao you want to take us all in? Pay for our moving costs? Or do you believe only the wealthy deserve to not be exploited? Across just about every land border the situation is the same or worse, so saddle up those ocean liners for every resident of the Americas /s
Individual solutions for this level of systemic injustice are naive at best and at worst actively reinforce the idea that power should not be challenged and authority must rule unopposed
Individual solutions for this level of systemic injustice are naive at best and at worst actively reinforce the idea that power should not be challenged and authority must rule unopposed
@Vincarsi @fgusmao Why should I pay for the moving costs of a lot of other people? And why should I want them here? It doesn't make sense to invite people with a destructive lifestyle in a healthy environment.
If I would donate to move a human, I would cherry-pick those, who have a sustainable lifestyle, not destroying the planet.
btw. you will compensate a flight ticket within a short time if living is so expensive there.
@utopify_org @fgusmao you mistake my meaning. I was being sarcastic because saying "just move" is so phenomenally ignorant of how these systems trap people in a cycle of just barely surviving poverty that the only reasonable response is to mock it.
WestTexasJesus@fgusmao Park usage fee + parking.
Oblomov@fgusmao (may I suggest adding “by Sarah Andersen” to the alt text?)
IanMoore3000@fgusmao here's the artist's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahandersencomics/
EpiscoGrrl@fgusmao it’s the last panel (“OK”) that bothers me the most.