please stop typing a CEO will read this and get ideas

Looking into this.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto, 1848

An economy based entirely on ratfucking and scamming.

We’re in 1729 France now baby

my rate of profit! my rate of profit is falling

TBF there's only so many ways to cook a burger.

jimmy johns prompting you for a fucking tip now

Here it's the opposite, groceries are lots more expensive than they used to be, but going out prices have only gone up by a little

"Just wait a couple hours. Just adjust your circadian rhythm so that you're not hungry during peak hours. Just do your grocery shopping in between 10:23 and 11:02, it's so easy."

• Future annoying bootstraps influencers

dynamic per-item, per-customer pricing based on doing machine learning security camera analysis to see how much you've probably got as you walk in.

if you look too poor to belong in the store at all, the prices go way higher.

The prices will be dynamic, the wages stagnant.

Indeed, just remember it's not about treats, it's about ethics in economics. Don't let them smear us on this. Everybody needs treats they're a basic human right.

Bargaining is when you eat at 1am to pay the old regular price

Any “savings” are total bullshit - a corporation will never, ever ever take anything less than they possibly can

Yeah this just seems like a reason for fast food workers to unionize like the Starbucks employees did.

I am not diabolical (not because it's wrong but because I'm a chickenshit), but is "remote device" like a raspberry pi?

Also gotta love how many things are keyed alike.

For real, if you're scanning QR codes... you shouldn't be. They are not secure and it's infinitely easier to hijack a business QR code than it is to install a card skimmer, except a QR code can be used to gain access to vastly more than just your credit card details.

On a similar note there's this company I have purchased a consumable good from online that I opted for auto-renewal with because it's cheaper. I have a new card since I signed up with them so the transaction didn't go through this time around and there's nowhere on their website to change my card details. It takes idk 24-48 hours and then I get this text message saying something along the lines of "Your card has failed to process, please follow this (url shortened link) to update your details". The shortened url leads to a 3rd party payment processing and credential-storing website that is a reputable e-commerce frontend so I'm 99% it's legitimate but I was like "Naw, fuck that" and sent their company director a blistering email saying that their payment processing is virtually indistinguishable from a phishing scam and to do better.

I haven't updated my card details with them since that email and their garbage tier "I can assure you that the message you received is verified and was sent from by our team" response in protest.

Fucken tone deaf bullshit. My problem wasn't me saying "Can you please verify that you sent me this message?" (MFer, do you want me to email you every time I need to update my card details to verify this shit??) but it was that their processes are extremely vulnerable to exploits and, although I'm fairly confident that I can identify that it's legitimate, I don't want to have to go through the process of carefully checking the unshortened url for any sneaky typographical anomalies and sussing out the whole website and it creates such a lax security culture that it encourages people who aren't tech savvy to drop their guard, which can easily lead to personal disaster.

Fuck all companies, fuck capitalism etc. etc. but such blatant, negligent disregard for customer security is just straight-up bullshit.
/rant

This is a great idea actually, stuffing those little markers with propaganda at places that do this