tal@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 天前Americans cut back sharply on their spending last month amid tariffswww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down12
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minus-squarechaosCruiserlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 小时前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?
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-223 小时前Yep, sounds about right. "They’re trying to build a prison, for you and me to live in." ~System of a Down
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