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[–] j4k3 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalism enables the unethical. As someone that has owned my own business with employees twice: it is easy to get rich; simply have no ethics. My last apprentice still owns his house all these years later. At one fork in the road of his life, that was a choice I made. The best business decision was to do the opposite, but in this instance I had ethics that stopped me. Every person with abnormal wealth is at the head of a wake of destruction. Most know what they have done; the rest are egregiously inept or diluted.

[–] TwoFacedJanus1968 10 points 1 week ago

"It's not hard to make a lot of money. If all you want to do is make a lot of money." -Citizen Kane, 1941

[–] UnpopularCrow 16 points 1 week ago

I’ve heard stories of how expensive watered bottles are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • Eating hot chip
  • using all the wifi
[–] psmgx 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • twerk
  • be bisexual
  • lie
[–] Bassman27 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I kind of agree with the buying only fans one…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of good ones on that list. Eating out frequently, for example, is super expensive compared to cooking at home. Lottery tickets are also a waste of money.

Hell, some of them like impulse shopping directly contribute to capitalism.

[–] glimse 9 points 1 week ago

It's still a stupid picture (the original) for being so reductive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Watered Bottle? wtf.