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

The price gouging will continue until morale improves

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

Are they even trying to hid it anymore?

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

Corpo media has an entire subgenre of itself that could be called "ACTUALLY." berdly-actually

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By dropping prices during the evacuation, the airlines ensured that flights filled up more quickly, making it harder for many to escape.

Bro I just... Wtf

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

glasses-on "Poors were allowed to escape before the rich, and it is unacceptable."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't you know? If your airline prices are higher you have more plane capacity!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

making it harder for many* to escape.

many: rich people

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

porky-happy "And, obviously, price is the SOLE mechanism we have to limit purchases. I mean, sure, we could simply not allow one dude to back up a dumptruck to push 10,000 rolls of toilet paper into-"

*crowd interrupts with cheers*

porky-scared-flipped "But-BUT that would be Un-American and communist! And my father died fighting those commies!

porky-happy "So that will be $65 a roll if you want to wipe your ass"

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

Late stage capitalism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bourgeois rag says what

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Boudreaux

Donald Joseph Boudreaux (born September 10, 1958) is a libertarian American economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, I thought this for sure had to be satire...

Also, here's an archive link:

https://archive.is/hN0MH

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

Donald J. Boidreaux 'Shutting The Fuck Up Forever' Is Good for the Public

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get a lot of mileage out of sharing this diagram:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the Marxist equivalent of "The mitochondria is the power house of the cell".

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

Pretty much, DiaMat and Historical Materialism is the foundation of any good Marxist and should be studied first.

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

The immortal science of Marxism. :)