@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 4 months agoWith the ubiquity of inflation and shrinkflation, why aren't there more boycotts? When will people say enough is enough?message-square126fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down114
arrow-up1233arrow-down1message-squareWith the ubiquity of inflation and shrinkflation, why aren't there more boycotts? When will people say enough is enough?@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 4 months agomessage-square126fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•4 months agoYour dystopia doesn’t account for automation. Corporations don’t even want your labour. A social crisis seems inevitable on our current trajectory.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•4 months agoThen for WHO are the corporations creating products for? There isn’t a growing pool of rich people. It’s shrinking.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 months agoThey won’t be at that point. Their extraction of all the wealth will be complete, and all of their needs met. As for us? Well who knows?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoWell I did say that people would demand it… which as you correctly point out, is by no means a guarantee that corporations would want to accept.
Your dystopia doesn’t account for automation. Corporations don’t even want your labour.
A social crisis seems inevitable on our current trajectory.
Then for WHO are the corporations creating products for? There isn’t a growing pool of rich people. It’s shrinking.
They won’t be at that point. Their extraction of all the wealth will be complete, and all of their needs met. As for us? Well who knows?
Well I did say that people would demand it… which as you correctly point out, is by no means a guarantee that corporations would want to accept.