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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What can we do to shrink our economy and progress by 90 years?

What an asinine post.

You guys act like that system was even good back then because things were "cheaper".

Want to affect prices? Then literally stop buying shit.

No Nikes no coke no mcds no chips. They charge you as much as they do because U LET THEM!

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

No Nikes no coke no mcds no chips.

I've been doing this for years and years. Economy still broken.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Agreed with the first part of your post, but you completely loose me at "stop buying shit" being a solution.

Any meaningful massive change requires systemic and legislative frameworks that companies, political organizations and government entities have to abide by - and this framework basically modulates popular behavior. Ex: what's available for purchase (ex: only things meeting certain profit margins or environmental criteria), who you advertise to and what you can advertise (ex: not to children, not for medication, etc), etc etc

If we expect and hope people to "wake up" and change their behaviour en masse, it's simply never going to happen, and the large corporations and lobbies keep rubbing their hands, happy we're guilt tripping each other rather than vote in people with clear legislative and regulatory agendas focused on actual human well-being...

Sry for the rant

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It's like an engineer imagined a perfectly spherical consumer: it makes only rational decisions and, once that decision is complete, it retreats into a hermetically sealed box to wait until it is time to make the next perfectly rational decision.

[-] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Economist. The word you're looking for is economist.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I've totally stopped buying houses because fuck them builders (sure, its not because I can afford like a few square meters of a house at best)

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