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Please Rockstar and Take-Two, push GTA 6's price up to $80 for the good of "the entire industry", Bank of America beg
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That sounds a lot like an argument a cartel would make.
I was about to say, this sounds like market collusion
Wouldn't the free-market capitalist thing for them to do in this situation be to take the knowledge their competitors can't compete with them and use it to squeeze them out of business?
Literally if they do anything else with this information it feels like it has to be pretty textbook collision
Free-market capitalist thing would be to do whatever the hell you want to make as much money as you can. That's what you get when there is no regulations on the market to discourage bad behavior for competition, the consumer or environment.
No, it's just "price fixing", and thanks to decades of alternating between neoliberals and Republicans, it's essentially legal.
Like, there's no debate about if this is price fixing it's blatantly obvious.
The loophole is because it's blatantly obvious.
The real problem is this isn't the only place financial institutions want higher prices, they want everything to be as expensive as possible, be ause it adds up and pushes people into debt.
They're dreaming of a day people Klarna everything and never get out from under debt.
That's the natural conclusion of banking in a Uber capitalist society. It stops being a place to store wealth, and becomes a place to borrow wealth from. Because that's how banks make the most money, and that's all that matters in Uber capitalist societies.
Profits over all else means everything else sucks
it's funny because the higher prices have made me reject modern society, and I buy NOTHING as a result... literally nothing. havent bought a thing that wasn't food in about 3ish years now. sorry, I bought a mouse. some unknown brand because all the 'top brands' are horrible quality and break way faster then some $15 cheap AliExpress junk I bought.
I refuse to participate and will sit on my money. don't care. let it burn
Which is why Uber capitalist societies need inflation. If people remove wealth from the cycle, they get punished with inflation.
A lot of people don't understand that inflation isnt some insurmountable natural force we fight, it's something that is intentionally done by the people literally controlling our economy.
That's not a conspiracy, that's what the Federal Reserve literally does.
all I see is companies buying up everything, (or promising too...), driving the costs through the roof resulting in me either choosing between food and shelter... or buying stuff.
I choose me... my house, and staying alive. the rest... whatever. let it inflate to absurd levels and crash. they can play their dumb game, I'll wait until the riots start.
I mean, storing wealth in US dollars is stupid, the government learned their lesson a century ago and that’s why inflation exists.
You can buy gold/silver or any investment vehicle, even guns and ammo if your pessimistic enough. Or land in the middle of nowhere if you have the funds.
Like, at first it sounded like a personal choice. Now it sounds like a forced reality and not a choice?
Anyways, if anyone is storing wealth at any substantial level, under no reason should anyone keep it in cash under their mattress.
Cash constantly get de-valued, it's not something anyone should "hold".