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  • 282 points the_mf1923

    This had to be stealing at this point, increasing prices above retail price for an individual should be illegal

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    92 points Teatime_Talks

    Its dependent on state laws and since this story takes place in america it may be legal.

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    36 points shimshamswimswam

    State Laws don't matter to them. We need consumer advocacy groups to pushback.

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    15 points ImPowermaster1

    Unions* The most effective group in forcing change has always been the workers whether through threatening to strike, actually striking, or organizing unions and etc.

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    9 points CatnotRespinding

    But that’s communism /s

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  • 398 points Leading-Wolverine639

    Where will I buy butt plug for cheap? 😔

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    78 points MotherTreacle3

    Facebook marketplace.

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    39 points amangothemangoes

    Used

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    21 points comic_papyrus

    Pre loved

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    10 points Paper_Says_No

    Read that as pre-lubed

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    5 points arcionek

    That costs extra

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    10 points Dramatic-Text8564

    I can share mine

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    10 points Fun_Month_6310

    My house

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    1 points Dizzy_Reindeer_6619

    There's some weird looking ornaments at my house but there's no base

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  • 828 points WimboTurtle

    this isnt even late stage capitalism
    its later stage capitalism

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    311 points Arthstyk

    Man, it's been late stage for like a hundred years, when do we get from late stage capitalism to early stage something else?

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    98 points Deutscher_Bub

    When the AI bubble bursts and the current economy stops "working". Then we'll need a new system. Trust me. It'll happen. I'm sure.

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    25 points dmicalt2004

    Welcome back Rudolf Hilferding.

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    32 points tianas_knife

    I've lived through at least two economy altering bubble bursts. Passivity is how we got here, and it won't be passivity that creates the kind of change you're hoping for.

    We're unlikely to see change in our lifetimes. If we survive the weather.

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    9 points ccstewy

    if we all purchased and used the second word of your username, we could make some change

    https://preview.redd.it/30yhza0q1w6g1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e00c46792be6dc0c45282e992116064a458b0ad

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    10 points OkFineIllUseTheApp

    When we resurrect Lenin.

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    4 points ollietron3

    When Luigi comes back

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    2 points Theodmaer

    You'll realize it was early stage something else after its done being early stage. At that point it will be too late.

    Technofeudalism? Maybe... 

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    22 points FusionBetween

    ultra stage

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    14 points MagicMarshmallo

    Neo feudalism

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    8 points Slow-Distance-6241

    Exactly. marx thought the fall of capitalism is inevitable, but he was wrong about thinking it'd be replaced by something better

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    9 points Airfryersgotmebanned

    Were peak stage capitalism

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    9 points YourBestDream4752

    I honestly can’t stand that subreddit. Whenever a corporation in America breaks regulations (which they will be punished for btw) they use it to paint the entire West as collapsing into a state similar to Cyberpunk 2077.

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    1 points Much-Menu6030

    we got a city to burn

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    4 points Kill_me_now_0

    This is too late capitalism, I got a chicken and I’ll give it to you for 2lb of potatoes

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    2 points Polibiux

    And the rich act shocked when people hate them when they pull shit like this.

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    1 points BinglesPraise

    Lunatic 1cc Phantasm Stage Capitalism

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    -1 points Accomplished-Fun-53

    End game

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    2 points DoubleJest

    Post game capitalism when?

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    2 points Accomplished-Fun-53

    Nah, we getting capitalism 2 when the big players get bored.

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    -1 points Burpyterra

    Later?

    This is fucking endgame capitalism

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  • 91 points Arthstyk

    Source

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    21 points Bobebobbob

    It's Instacart for those who are curious

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    14 points ElGordoCompu

    I love this YT channel, thanks for the source!

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  • 125 points Crownite1

    Usually shouldn’t you include the name of the shop so people know what to avoid?

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    104 points MeltheEnbyGirl

    If you live in the US, to not experience this practice, you should try to avoid: shops

    I hope this helps!

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    30 points Crownite1

    So whats the specific grocery app in the post not referring to every single shop but the specific grocery app in this context and not in any other context just this one alone beat that one liberal😼

    You cant say shops you cant say apps you have to give me the specific shop name that this post in general is referring to that’s the rules boss

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    26 points choke_on_jewelery

    i believe it was instacart (though the more perfect union documentary seems to realise that other shopping apps also have similar practices)

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    6 points Dramatic-Text8564

    If you're Canadian don't go to any groceries store owned by loblaw (aka all of them)

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    2 points Crownite1

    https://i.redd.it/n8mmtx42us6g1.gif

    im american and you failed my game in the other comment

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    1 points Dramatic-Text8564

    I lost the game, I don't deserve to live

    https://preview.redd.it/kv7tpeivus6g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ebb7cbc1aa780ebf7b868bc26a1e9cb695d8021

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    1 points Much-Menu6030

    god fucking dammit

    i lost too

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    6 points Arthstyk

    Well i did add the source in the comments

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    3 points Mixedtale_co-creator

    Most people don't go through all the comments just for the chance of somebody to have the source linked there, and because by default Reddit sorts comments by the top, so if your comment with the source isn't highly upvoted then it'll take a long time before people can find it and that might make more people think that it just isn't there because they can't see it

    Ps: trying not to sound confrontational, accusatory or anything like that, it's just something I've been noticing a lot lately and think an easy was to fix it would be to have the source in the body text of the post, you don't have to if you don't want to though! Just an idea :D

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  • 35 points No_Event6478

    This video explains the concept pretty good:

    https://youtu.be/acpd3UXQdmw

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    14 points ParkingShelter9634

    Yall are unable to even tax people properly, what makes you think this will get implemented smoothly.

    Good concept, impossible to execute.

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    1 points AdonisBatheus

    Look at OP's source. It already is being executed and it is not impossible.

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    3 points ParkingShelter9634

    That is the part that's troublesome, half baked ideas thrown in execution, painted as "good for the society" by thieves to steal from the already troubled poors who believe that the system isn't trying to bankrupt them 24/7.

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  • 18 points NOGUSEK

    I want some sort of rapture already

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    8 points press_F13

    2012 was but we are one now living in he'll 

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    1 points Much-Menu6030

    sorry that'll be $29.99 per month to be lifted by god

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  • 18 points [deleted]

    But which grocery is the best one?

    https://preview.redd.it/5i62jqgupr6g1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0349bf324a0fc7655b690ac5793f6806f4c5abd

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  • 15 points Urban_Cosmos

    Vid from more perfect union

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  • 15 points artin2007majidi

    This seems PRIMED for exploitation lmao. Make a script that generates new accounts and bots. The bots constantly view the exact opposite of what you want to buy, so that when you want to actually buy them, they are as cheap as the app will go.

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  • 18 points AmanWhosnortsPizza

    Worse part is the fact that they were caught doing it

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    6 points press_F13

    Masquerade be falling hard 

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  • 9 points RepulsiveRichard

    That doesn't seem Orwellian to me, would love to hear how your interpretation tho

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    8 points press_F13

    More of huxley-clarke-asimovan 

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    3 points zrdod

    They're trying to track customers, so they can charge poor people MORE, and rich people LESS

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    3 points RepulsiveRichard

    gotcha, tracking to control and then disenfranchising working people to centralize power. Thanks for sharing :)

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  • 4 points press_F13

    My theory is why the meat is so pricy then. Also putting responsibility on customer than corpos. Tldr: you buy or don't, we know you can't not to, so this way we can sway you 

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  • 4 points altaltaltaltbin

    Am I wrong for getting irrationally angry when someone says something is “literally 1984” when it has nothing to do with 1984?

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  • 3 points Express_Ad5083

    Me and my friends had to come up with an business project and so we came up with an app that adjusts your rent based on your income (helps landlords manage their rent) with various subscription tiers and benefits. We were not aware that our ideas were already being implemented holy shit

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  • 2 points UnhappyStrain

    Chat control already out? Dayym

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  • 1 points Crazy__Toast

    I did not understand anything in that sentence but the title tells me that either 1984 or animal farm

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  • 1 points N00N01

    someone wrote a good book about smth about surplus value and money or smth?

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  • 1 points ledow

    Sounds like price-fixing to me.

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  • 1 points Carl_Marks__

    Yet economists will still argue that “Greedflation” isn’t a thing

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  • 1 points Karag-Z

    What's the app or this post is full of shit?

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  • 1 points MichaelTheLMSBoi

    Classism my beloved

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  • 1 points Alan_Reddit_M

    Literally 1984 (I can say it now because I've actually read the book)

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  • 1 points n0460

    Airlines have been doing this for a long time at this point

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  • 1 points lavendarKat

    if everyone pays a different price that's driven by income level then there's effectively not even a market anymore. There's no "generally agreed upon" exchange value, there's only whatever they can get from you, and since you need food to live and the only thing they care about is more money, they have all the leverage to pump you for everything you're worth and there's nothing you can do about it.

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  • 1 points Terrible-Election512

    our ancestors killed wolves with their bare hands

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  • 1 points Much-Menu6030

    i sure do love my monarch mongering corporation

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  • 1 points KomisktEfterbliven

    Wtf do you need a grocery app for? Just walk into the store

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  • 1 points ccstewy

    Why didn’t you just say instacart in the post

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  • 1 points DantoStudioInc

    u/SaveVideo

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    1 points SaveVideo

    View link


    Info | Feedback | Donate | DMCA | reddit video downloader | twitter video downloader

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  • 1 points Enough-Map1162

    Get Fucked stage capitalism

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  • -3 points Okcollege1200

    Errrm acsualy 1984 is about totalitarian communism. But this shit Scares me

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    4 points Arthstyk

    What? Are you implying that 1984 is a REAL book? That people can READ? Preposterous!

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    10 points CyberCephalopod

    Totalitarian communism is the same as megacorporations owning the government if you think about it.

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  • -4 points Matix777

    Yeah that's what the grocery apps exist for. What else? Giving free discounts?

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    16 points fuqueure

    I don't think you quite understand. Companies have experimented with this before. The main issue is, the price is higher for poor people.

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