A Boring Dystopia

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Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. (lemmy.world)

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

because a lot of rich people can buy items through their LLCs and get bulk or retailer pricing.

I'm not even rich, but I'm considering doing this so I can skip the 22% sales tax on some purchases. I'm in IT so there's no way they could argue that my next gaming PC ISN'T a business asset. I could be running AI models on the GPU!