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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

Have any of you actually ever stopped to process what the tagline, "I'm shopping like a billionaire" means?

I've always interpreted it as,

I'm needlessly buying things that don't make me happy, but making the purchase without any hesitation, knowing that the purchase price could never financially impact me in any real way. When I purchase the thing, I'll probably never use it or actually take it out of the box even. It is just empty, hollow. And somewhere inside, I always know that it's all only possible, because I'm actively exploiting the cheap labor of scores of other people that are made to perpetually suffer in generations of abject poverty to allow for my relative comfort...

🎶*"I'm shopping like a billionaire!"*🎶

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am disabled and have limited income I don't have control over increasing or decreasing. I use temu to save a lot of money on essential things that should be cheap but are still overpriced in America. Sponges. Rags. Soaps. Pens. Tools. Home improvement hardware. Plant grow supplies. Gifts for me nieces. The tagline, is just a tagline. Billionaires are not like me and scouring for cheap magic sponges.

Edit: also, temu did not invent drop shipping. Shopping on amazon is literally the same thing.

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good to know people that are disabled don't mind using shitty maleware apps, I guess?

What's your point combining using the malware app with you being disabled? Is that supposed to make the app better somehow?

You're not special because you're disabled. Things you use aren't magical amazing. You're still the same as everyone else.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

That's... not what they were saying? They were responding to a comment saying it encourages consumerism by saying that they use it for better prices on things they need regardless

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

What does being disabled have to do it?

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

That's why they're broke

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Well this disabled person thinks you're a dumb asshole.

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Other commenters have already corrected your thinking, don't pretend like you didn't read them.

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I completely forgot about this post. I'm not going to read any more comments than I did however long ago the conversation originally was. Oh shit it's almost 2 weeks old lmao I don't give a fuck

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 years ago

My interpretation of that tagline is that since the prices on Temu are cheap, it means you can shop as if you had a lot of money, without actually spending that much.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think you cracked the case on that one, that's gotta be what it means.

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