tal@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAmericans cut back sharply on their spending last month amid tariffswww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down12
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minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoTheir idea is that, on a long enough timeline of not having easy goods that we’d become slave labor,… slaver labor, anyway.
minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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 month agoYep, sounds about right. United Prison of America. "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. United Prison of America.
"They’re trying to build a prison,
for you and me to live in."
~System of a Down