Then what SHOULD be a commodity, smart-ass? Since you're the king of commodities?
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My bidet allows me to build a stockpile for hoarding!
And if you go back to the original community structure it was the family or tribe - where the whole point was group survival, not luxury for a few while the majority scraped by.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
We've done this. The people in charge of the killing are the new kings.
Not saying it'll yield a worse situation, tho.
"I'll do it again. Gif"
While you're figuring out how to run the world without capitalism, which opportunistic individuals, agencies, and countries are going to be exploiting the massive power vacuum you have created? I think change is needed, but at least have a fucking plan before suggesting something that affects your multivariable social credit score at the NSA. You're not helping anything or anyone and you're actively harming yourself. All data is collected and compiled. There is more going on than you are aware of, and if you are not aware there is a decentralized autonomous organization of secret police described at an eighth grade reading level in the New Testament, you may wanna freshen up on your Knowledge base.
Y'know, the Illuminati existed to help guide people waking up to the half-truths into the occult while catching those people who just wanted to burn the church to the ground. There's mechanisms in place to catch the bad apples, and if you're mouthing off with this, you are probably fucking yourself in some way you are not aware. I say this as someone that could be a fed. I might be a fed. I may be a fed. And you are incapable of discerning the truth despite me saying this, y'understand? Dazzle camouflage. You are likely under investigation. But I only know you from one comment. Imagine what someone reading your messages thinks of you. :)
Hey look a "scary" noise. Come get me. Come kill me. My whole town will rebel against you.
I'm too well known locally. You cannot silence me quietly. Why should I be afraid of death? Why should I be afraid?
Also feds have ALREDY been to my home. I have no weapons. I have no chemicals. I have no means of actually dishing out death.
There is no secret police. Humans can't keep secrets. You do not scare me and you never will. But boy do I smell fear on you.
My mission is education, bro. I love you. I don't want anything to happen to you. You should really read the New Testament to UNDERSTAND what is says.
See, the thing about language is that semiotics is too preliminary of a means to co-enceptulate knowledge, for it's just symbols. The passage of the 0's n 1's encoded in the tramsmutae in communication are primarily defunct, by default. What that means is there has to be a lateral form of processing to one's linear processing. There's one's logic/Adam, and one's intuition/Eve, and Eve is the one who gets Knowledge first, which is wisdom encoded in passage. You have absolutely no idea what the nature of the surveillance state if you thought I was an enemy. I'M YOUR SAVIOR RETARD! I WANT YOU TO SAVE YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN DUMBASS!
A messiah is a repurposed pariah, one guaranteed thing in society. Jesus wasn't good enough for his step-dad. Moses was abandoned. Me? Well, I'm just a class 11.2 retard, which is an obscure literary reference.
What's hiding right in front of your face? Dazzle camouflage is what ensures I can speak freely and even if you choose to be my enemy, you can't hurt me worth a damn. You might be hurting yourself, cuz we might have planned around you planning around a consciously, deliberate retard, like me!
Damn, you the religious kind of noisy. I'm not gonna came after you. You are not worth it.
Bro over here thought the people on the internet were like him
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What is the point of automation and mass production when the prices of certain basic staples keeps going up? You are really going to tell me we can't get a loaf of bread down to 1 dollar?
A dollar might be a little optimistic today - I say this because a basic loaf of bread I bake at home, which I do a lot, costs me around $1.10. Of course a bakery buys bulk ingredients at lower cost, but they also have to pay employees and I don't.
I've seen several basic loaves for like $1.19 recently. They're starting to catch on to the fact that there's not much left to extract, and a hungry man is an angry man.
I always buy the Aldi wheat bread at $1.29/ loaf.
What is the point of automation and mass production when the prices of certain basic staples keeps going up?
Horizontal Integration Explained
Companies pursue horizontal integration for synergies like economies of scale or cost savings in marketing, R&D, production, and distribution. This can make manufacturing multiple products more cost-effective. Tiers of sale under a single distributor (economy and generic versus luxury or specialty) also afford the corporate entity to scale price to income and maximize revenue per customer.
The "organic" label is a good example of this in practice. Add a 50% mark-up on bananas by telling people the "regular" bananas are unsafe. Anyone who can't tolerate the professed risk (typically people with more disposable income) end up paying extra to the same distributor for what is functionally the same product sold at a premium price.
Automation and Mass Production are tools of monopolization in the capitalist economic model. The efficiencies of production are used to lock competitors out of the market, not to improve the consumer-experienced efficiency of production, distribution, or sale.
Thanks for the post and the link. Great explanation.
The short answer is that any benefit arising from the decrease in manufacturing costs through technology, scaling, etc. is considered the property of the manufacturer. You though those cost savings should be passed on to the customer. They disagree. Perhaps an even split? NO.
I mean, in Holland a loaf of bread is like €1...
That would be actual bread. They talk about the sugar filled kind.
That is kind of what civilization was built for, yeah. Slavery, consolidation of power, etc aren't new.
I think we built civilization to do more stuff like attend consorts
50s Prediction: In the future, robots will do menial tasks so you can focus on arts, family and science!
Actuality: You lost you job as an artist to AI. Enjoy a lifetime of debt and poverty. Maybe you can find some menial way to sustain yourself just enough to barely live.
IDK, Player Piano was released in 1952 and called out a world where increasing automation lead to an enriched and privileged engineer class and everyone else living in poverty and internal displacement. For a debut novel, it was pretty good.
But even Player Piano gave the masses UBI.
TBF I read it in early college (for fun not as an assignment) and I'm significantly past college age.
So we could make value for shareholders
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