A Boring Dystopia

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Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by LengAwaits to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This sounds like the capitalistic version of communism (Soviet regime), the politburo (the billionaires) have decided that a family should be able to buy a loaf of bread every week, so we set the price of bread to yearly income/52

[–] jorp 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Setting prices is communism, Marx got it all wrong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Communism is when capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

In Soviet America, universal basic income is when prices are set based on your AI calculated total income.