• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Acting on “what the market will bear” instead of what at cost as well as labour is predatory in that it is opportunistic in the basic definition of what makes predatory behaviour predatory. It is also gouging as it is setting a price range that can be considered exclusionary. And then to also attack a customer who feels this and speaks it can be considered victim blaming as you’re enabling these behaviours by dismissing the feedback of the victim, which again is being exclusionary by enforcing their money to be taken but not allowing they can be part of the feedback or setting boundaries of what is happening to them.

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      10 months ago

      When you call someone choosing to buy a $12 latte a victim it makes everything else you say impossible to take seriously.

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        10 months ago

        If these people have been raised by exploitative pricing all their life, I honestly am not sure who to blame anymore.

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        10 months ago

        you use ‘choice’ like $3 latte is an option. You’re bent on manipulating people so it’s hard to take you seriously.

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          10 months ago

          You can get a latte at Dunkin donuts for $2.69 or McDonald’s for $1. Or, and this is going to blow your mind, you can live without lattes. We’re not talking about insulin ffs. How fucking entitled are you talking about a luxury item like it’s a necessity lmao