tal@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAmericans cut back sharply on their spending last month amid tariffswww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down12
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minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoTheir idea is that, on a long enough timeline of not having easy goods that we’d become slave labor,… slaver labor, anyway.
minus-squarechaosCruiserlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoOh, so consumers stop consuming, retail companies fire employees to maintain profitability, etc. Few rounds of that and you have even more poor people who can be exploited to maintain the wealth inequality or even widen the gap. Was that the idea?
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 day agoYep, sounds about right. "They’re trying to build a prison, for you and me to live in." ~System of a Down
Their idea is that, on a long enough timeline of not having easy goods that we’d become slave labor,… slaver labor, anyway.
Oh, so consumers stop consuming, retail companies fire employees to maintain profitability, etc. Few rounds of that and you have even more poor people who can be exploited to maintain the wealth inequality or even widen the gap. Was that the idea?
Yep, sounds about right.
"They’re trying to build a prison,
for you and me to live in."
~System of a Down