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 3 months ago by LengAwaits to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thats not the way it will work. They will give discounts to the rich and charge the poor more. This is essentially what dollar general is. A added cost for being poor.

[–] xenoclast 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What an embarrassing existence. A society that COULD feed everyone in it decides to optimize the wealth of a tiny few and let millions starve to do it. What stupid stupid animals we are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're not stupid animals, there are plenty of historical examples of societies allocating resources based on need rather than economic capability. We're just living under the wrong system, and we need to evolve past that system towards something with actual democracy, where the people can decide democratically how the economy works and how the resources are allocated, where the workers aren't under the orders of a dictatorial power structure 8 hours a day 5 days a week, but instead they collectively make the decisions and take the profits from the companies they own collectively.

[–] xenoclast 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We are stupid animals to have chosen this system.. is what I was saying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We didn't choose the system. I wasn't handed a ballot when I was born, were you? Capitalism developed in specific historic and material conditions not by popular choice but by the logical consequences of those conditions.

[–] xenoclast 1 points 3 months ago

No, but I have a sense of responsibility greater than just my personal needs. I can conceptualize problems that I didn't create, are still ones that I'm responsible for dealing with.

[–] LordCrom 11 points 3 months ago

Correct. That 1.00 bottle of soap costs more per oz than the bigger bottle from other stores.