• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    People that can still afford stuff will be so cool. The hippest tech, biggest cars and newest kicks, everything will be uber exclusive. This is good for america because reasons.

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      2 months ago

      This is good for america because reasons.

      People with lifted pickup trucks can now go into even more debt, so they can flex on the “poors” (while complaining about their “economic anxiety”).

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        2 months ago

        Not to worry. If gas is a little cheaper while they fill up their tanks at the pump, they’ll be happy to pay [insert car financing company here] exorbitant amounts of money and think they’re winning

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        I think car industry regulations (ratio of gas per weight or something) are one of the incentives for production of such trucks. So again - this may eventually get better if “deregulation” stops being a curse. Not with Trump, of course.

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      2 months ago

      Especially because every grift that trump has made, his shoes and the like, were all made internationally. Wonder who will pay for those tarrifs when he does the same?

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      If that is truly their plan, they are dumber than we fucking figured.

      If a billionaire wants to buy a swimming pool, he needs a considerable amount of other people to be able to afford swimming pools or it it becomes impossible for him to get one at all eventually.

      To have a swimming pool, there needs to be an industry of specialized labororers who can manufacture and install. There has to be electricians who specialize in mixing water and electricity. There has to be people working the factories where the chlorine gets manufactured and bottled.

      This is true for every product that billionaires consume. You really gotta think that these people with all this wealth would have people on the payroll pointing this out to them.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        That is more of a millionaire problem. A billionaire can afford to fly the specialists and the materials in from Europe.

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        2 months ago

        Party officials in USSR kinda managed to keep such an industry for their nice things. It’s not as complex as computers.

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      2 months ago

      This is good. Same way forest fires can be good.

      But those people thinking they’ll be the elite don’t quite realize how exactly.