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if you think you can hide in your bunkers, or compound without paying people that are essentially slaves, they will easily turn on you in the end.
Another day in the age of the dystopia plutocrats.
It's like he's begging for it
It’s always pathetic when someone who lives in a completely shielded Elysium accuses others of weakness while erecting barriers to prevent anyone from proving them wrong.
"Survival of the fittest! Let nature take it's course!" ::nervously re-checks automatic locks::
By weak he means less rich
Bezos needs to be reminded his flesh is as soft and squishy as the the rest of the weak.
Pissed off at Bezos betraying us all again? Consider not giving him your money and boycott Amazon.
Someone reading this message could cost them hundreds or thousands over the coming year by simply shopping elsewhere. That's not nothing. There's no doubt that Amazon is convenient, but it is possible to get along without them.
For Americans: in this time of rising fascism, it's important to chip away at the pillars that are holding up the regime in the White House. This is one way to use your agency to have a measurable impact.
I just want to add to this that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BOYCOTT SOMETHING COMPLETELY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
It's absolutely OK if you cannot 100% cut Amazon out of your life. It's OK if you have to buy from them sometimes because it's the only place you can find that particular thing you need.
You just need to stop making them your default. Check somewhere else first. Make that little bit of extra effort to see if maybe a local store has what you're looking for.
If you reduce your spending on Amazon by 80%, that's still a huge reduction. If enough people do that, they'll be in serious trouble. And it's a lot more manageable than an all or nothing boycott.
And if we could convince a hundred million people to reduce their spending Amazon by just 10%, that would have far more impact than a hundred thousand people cutting them out entirely. It's better to set a lower standard that more people can engage with, especially because the more people develop that habit of not always going to Amazon first, the more it's place in their lives will continue to shrink.
I call this "soft boycotting". Reduce rather than remove. It's far more sustainable as an option in your every day life, and it encourages people to actually engage with boycotting instead of writing it off because it feels like an impossible commitment.
Unfortunately, it won't make much of a dent at all. Amazon's traditional goods business runs on very thin margins, and they can write it off. Their profit center these days is AWS, and there isn't much you or I can do to boycott that.
That said, I have canceled Prime, and I only use Amazon for some hobbyist stuff that's hard to get from literally anywhere else.
I dumped it on Jan 20 after seeing Bezos at Trump's inauguration. Honestly, after the addiction wore off I don't miss it at all. The biggest change I've noticed is I no longer impulse buy stupid shit I don't need.
CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! ALL YOU HAVE TO LOSE IS CHEAP SHIT YOU DON'T REALLY NEED ANYWAY!
Well, that and some genuinely good media that they've locked down the rights to...
Unless... 🏴☠️
By virtue of my location, the Jolly Roger is the only way I can access most popular media.
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I so badly want to watch the new critical role animated series and conveniently buy and ship Christmas gifts this time of year. God damn it Bezos. All you had to do was not be fucking evil.
allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers
If that's what he expects will happen then he is out of touch with AI and its capabilities. AI nowhere near being capable of completely replacing humans.
In fact the main reason for the AI bubble is because billions have been dumped into it expecting it will be capable of replacing humans, but all it's really good at is making AI slop.
The only jobs it has kind of started replacing, but not really - more like transforming them - are software engineer jobs.
When the economy collapses, it will affect ALL businesses, and all kind of people will lose jobs, from software engineers to teachers to analysts. And none of those jobs can be fully replaced by AI, or it would have happened already.
Bezos is a fucking clown.
Crashes are good for people that have capital because it lets them buy things that people are forced to sell at a discounted price.
Not because it lets them sell ai. The goal is to snatch up cheap assets to sell when the economy recovers then do it all over again.
Yep. It's a fire sale for the 1%
Crashes are good for people that have capital because it lets them buy things that people are forced to sell at a discounted price.
Facts. You don't even have to be particularly rich to do it. I had a few thousand I'd saved over a decade in March 2020, used it to buy oil stocks at a 90% discount, then sold it two years later when things rebounded. It wasn't 'fuck you' money, but it allowed me to pay off my student loans.
my personal plan is to gather as much capital as i can while this everything bubble goes wild (fuck it, look at total volume levels now vs...anytime last 30 years...nobody but degenerate gamblers and those that should know better are playing right now), then...go on a mass-building spree to drive down the price of housing.
high density, high-quality, affordable housing built for sale not rent, sold exclusively to long-time local residents and/or first-time home buyers. my hope is this crashes individual localized housing markets, as the local rent parasites cant find renters and since they probably took loans out on their properties to throw into the casino...
then i swoop in, buy their distressed property on the cheap, throw down even more high-density/quality, affordable housing for sale.
repeat until everyone has a home
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Even better. The AI Bubble bursting may be good because it may finally wake people the fuck up as to how utterly god-damned stupid their ruling class is and eliminate them.
Lol just like we did the last time. And the time before that. And the time before that. And...
It will eliminate the weak meaning the companies in actual competitive markets, so monopolists like Amazon can buy them up and monopolize even more markets.
Yep. Trillion dollar companies are so huge that a deep recession only mildly impacts revenue.
Yeah, that's why they do the whole greedflation thing, to make central banks raise rates, causing a slew of bankruptcies among the competition, making them ripe for a buyout.
The fact that it also destroys labour negotiating positions is a cherry on top.
Translation: I have enough money to weather this self-inflicted disaster. Do you?
He wants to buy everything remotely competition at scrap-bottom prices
I genuinely believe that this is why they crash the economy every now and then. We've had at least 4 economic catastrophes in the last 30 years...and they were all predictable and preventable.
But somehow, none of these very wealthy and successful people, were able to see the inevitable consequences of their own actions? Yeah. No. Not buying it.
Their wealth grows nearly exponentially each time. What a crazy coincidence huh?
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The last crash destroyed families and destroyed lifetimes of savings from the utter devastation of the fallout. My family never recovered and tragedy was the result. I know millions of families will never recover from that and there was no accountability at all. The occupy movement was a genuine working class movement against the criminal oligarchs who destroyed our economy. Unfortunately the book was thrown at the occupy movement and the well funded tea party movement and white nationalist movement was funded by the oligarchs and ignored by lawmakers. This all led to what we’re dealing with today. Families never recovered the cost of living keeps skyrocketing and we keep getting poorer. Unfortunately the correct counter movements get stamped out and the ones that blame minorities get funded and this is where we’re at today….we can’t move any further right we are at the end of the line. The oligarchs need us to fight eachother so they can justify the police state they’re building indefinitely. It’s like System of a Down said “they’re trying to build a prison for you and me to live in”
i dont think we truly recovered from the 08 crash to begin with, we just truncated it to something else. terms of job-wise yea it gotten harder since that time.
Well said. However, at this point I think they've already built the prison, and we're already living in it.
True. It’s an old song
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Eat the rich
God no! Wow! They'd taste like ketamine and evil!
I’m hungry and I don’t mind hard drugs
I love ketamine but it's not something I enjoy having in my mouth.
I can't wait for the purge of the billionaire class.
Translation: will allow them to buy up a bunch of shit for cheap as soon as it bursts
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