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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Humans adapt just fine, billionaires though.

    The only reason we haven’t made the major life changes we need to make is because it isn’t profitable.

    We are not profitable, unless we consume. Unless our money continues to funnel to the top hands we will continue to perpetually destroy our planet. Simple as that.

    As citizens, we can only access the changes we need to make based on the size of our income. I can’t afford to get an electric car, fresh ingredients are expensive, I can’t buy a house to then fit it with solar panels.

    This change has to come from the people that have the means to change it for everyone, hence the top 400 people holding some 98% of the US currency hostage.

    This is not a problem civilians can solve. We can try, but we will fail. The footprint is from the people that can stop it and the only major lifestyle changes would be difficult, but doable for us, it’d be near impossible for the billionaires to adjust to such a degree, and I’m not confident they ever will.





  • Let’s be honest here, dude is gonna go to the whitest collar prison they can make and build him his own custom cell block. Donald going to prison would just be a way for him to own more property.

    I’m not opposed to him getting prison time, but it’s gonna be like everything else, handled completely different from the average criminal.








  • This just isn’t true. Walmart specifically has steadily increased prices, even though they are constantly making money.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-profit

    In fact, they believe they can perpetually grow and when they don’t grow they pin it on people stealing.

    Walmart loses about 1% of its annual revenue to theft. Sure that is pretty significant, but then you also have to realize that Walmart is typically the #2 company on spending for lobbyists. Usually influencing labor laws.

    Additionally, working class wealth has slowed to almost a stop. Since 2008 wealth generation for the average American is increased by about 1% each year. In comparison to the several hundred percentage that the top 1% has increased.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/

    You are advocating for a shitty faceless corporation and believing that stealing from them is actually harming others. They have made enough money to not only feed every single American, but also pay them a living wage, yet their employees are barely making that.

    If they didn’t have anybody stealing, prices would still be as high as they are, Walmart would just justify it with an excuse.

    They have not stopped increasing how much money they take. Every year they make more, charge more, and we don’t move. We stay right where we are and get to watch what was once a liveable wage turn into a nightmarish struggle.

    You aren’t the victim of others, you are the victim to capitalism.