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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mArXiSm

go actually read Marx, dude was smart af.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anything in particular? He has boocoos of books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

beaucoups

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There are multiple acceptable spellings of this word.

beau·coup (bō′ko͞o′, bo͞o′-, bō-ko͞o′) also boo·coo or boo·koo (bo͞o′-)Informal

I chose boocoos, because it looks funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capital 1, if you can hack it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very long. Seems interesting, though. As someone that has lived in communism, I can say with first hand that it doesn't work en mass. But, then again, capitalism doesn't work either...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more of a treatise on economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ok cool. I added to the reading list yesterday, and plan to get to it after the one I'm reading now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Manifesto is literally 20 pages.