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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This, we moved from Tribes to towns to cities to be more efficient but lost the cooperative aspect of the tribe which made it more efficient in the first place. Now corporations do market research until they figure out exactly what we can afford to get our needs met and then charge that price instead of anything related to their actual costs. It's resulted in a situation to where most people live month to month and can't afford vacation or even an unexpected car repair.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thats me. My car, teeth, hair, and some parts of my rental house (thanks landlord) are falling apart and I can't afford to fix any of it cause rent and bills are due each month and they keep going up. Its fucken madness, its making me insane.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Cheers from across the hellscape, friend.