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Nobody cares that their TV is cheaper when it now smashes ads in your face while using your bandwidth to serve botnets and sends a heartbeat even when offline.
by bix6 2mo ago
Nobody cares that their TV is cheaper when it now smashes ads in your face while using your bandwidth to serve botnets and sends a heartbeat even when offline. Everything that actually matters, like good healthy food or youth sports, is increasingly expensive or shrinkflated.
- inigyou 2mo agoIt's because of rent. Rent keeps going up and this gets passed on to all people who buy things, live, or work, but it rarely flows the other way - rentiers spend all their rent acquiring more rent, not on productive things. And so you have this constant leeching away from the real economy.
- bix6 2mo agoThe rent seeking in this era really is off the charts