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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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It's so hard to fully encapsulate my rage at just how much people buy into the idea that capitalism will uniquely incentivize people to innovate when... it isn't about innovation. It is about profit, and those two things are not mutually inclusive ideas.

Maybe I'm getting too old, but all of these "new innovative" ideas were shit we had in ye olden days - movies, renting, delivery services, taxis, housing - we had all of those services, except now, it's exorbitantly more expensive because of price gouging.

You aren't witnessing innovation; you are witnessing the modern invention of the wheel behind a ludicrous pay wall.

#anti capitalism #politics #my dad and i ruminate about going to bastings to rent movies and just how much shit they had there #and i just worry that people are so blinded behind the glitz and glamour that *corporations are invested in propagating*...#...that they'd willingly let companies do whatever even if it isn't a luxury service #the profit drive will eat you alive and still come away hungry #i use luxury services because it's one of the easier and more glarongly obvious examples #i really need to sleep it's way too late #i just. think about this a lot

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