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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (11 children)

That's not a contradiction. Your, my, and everyone's bed is for sleeping in. The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth. This displays the harsh efficiencies of capitalism, because the people in the most need for a bed cannot afford to have one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth

...selling people beds so they have beds to sleep in. Beds that aren't riddled with bugs thanks to the store not being a homeless shelter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're assuming selling beds is the only method to distribute them. That's simply untrue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Best method we have found so far. If you want cookie cutter efficient ass state made beds you can move off to the.... Well, every state who has tried has collapsed so you're shit out of luck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You mean like the still-existing and highly complex gift economies of natives all across the globe that have no homelessness?

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