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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] LovableSidekick 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Prices going down seems like good news to me. Are you thinking this equates to jumping up and down cheering and waving pompoms for a company and forgiving all their unforgivable evil misdeeds and sucking their dick? Cuz it doesn't. It just means lower prices are good news.

[–] pennomi 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

People tend to shit on good things just because they hate the people in charge of the decision.

We should celebrate bad people doing good things instead of flaming them for it. We want them to keep making good decisions, right?

[–] ripripripriprip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, steps in the right direction are steps in the right direction.

Previous practice outrageous? Yup. New practice awesome? Yup. It's ok to recognize both.

I feel like it'd be a miserable life if you took the negative part of this story and ran with that instead of the more positive side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean... people like you are part of why shitty things stay shitty. If that's how you want to live you can, but this patronizing sense of superiority you seem to feel is what hurts society.

[–] ripripripriprip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"How I want to live", or how I actually live, is by not paying exorbitant prices at events like this (or exorbitant prices elsewhere).

I'll go eat somewhere actually tasty before a game. In other areas I'm fairly frugal, as well.

Mobilizing some movement with enough people putting on an embargo to lower prices? Not even gonna try.

I do, think the OP is a step in the right direction and I'll focus on that. I understand everything, in general, is too expensive.

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