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It's like the government just stopped caring to protect us at all. Every regulatory system has been broken. You are being sold carcinogens every day and there is no help coming. Have a nice day!
It's so frustrating to read about the history of this country and how much of what we have now is "And then the government gave so and so 500 acres for free..." and it's like -- where the fuck did that government go?
Our parents thought "free handouts" weren't good for us and were only for "bad people" which was inexplicably often black people
Your ancestors knew that doing stuff like that wasn't sustainable. However, instead of leaving the door closed, they opened the door nice and wide, exploited it as long as they could, and then welded the door shut so that no one else could take advantage of the leftovers.
It’s unfortunate, but even without the boomers we might be speed running into a brick wall.
Right?! It's just tricking people into spending money they shouldn't.
That's like 99% of what marketing is.
Which is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
It’s vile what we consider normal.
Absolutely.
How do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
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You can restructure society to not require profit.
How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can't. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine.
The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption
No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
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So your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
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That's no strawman. You just refuse to see that there is no universal way to decide upon value that fits everyone's notion of it. If both people in an exchange come away satisfied, did one exploit the other? How do you strictly define the excess value on each side of the transaction? Your idea of a profit-less society doesn't consider how we'd pragmatically exchange our labor to achieve that.
Next they will have Pizza Mortgages and their logical counterpart, the Reverse Pizza Mortgage.
" If you own your pizza, you could qualify for a reverse pizza mortgage!"
Did anybody at all read the article?
666 people are enrolled in a trial system so that their pizza debts are collected from their estate when they die.
No interest rate or fees.
So.......
Basically free pizza for life. It's not predatory, And it's insane to me that people post articles, even in a comment, without reading them. Because if you had read the article "predatory" would be the furthest thing for your mind. It's just a gimmick promotion to increase sales
I definitely wish I was one of those 666 people
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Fair enough.
And I apologize for the harsh tone.
I read the article you linked, and I was like "what's this guy talking about".
Have a nice day.
Shit, if everyone signs up for that what's to stop them from going bankrupt before you have to pay? Also, what stops people from altering the will after the fact?
Well, they can sell your debt if they go down.
I'm sure companies will be lining up to take debt that pays out on the debtors death.