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[-] tourist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Capitalism is when private equity acquires basically all of the bricks, mass produces their own intentionally inferior bricks in a country with no labour protections, and charges you a monthly subscription fee for every brick they sold you at a 110% profit margin

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

And at the end you have no community, lots of debt, a broken body, and nothing to show for it.

[-] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

But the landlords, banks and shareholders are all very wealthy.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago

But also deeply unhappy people

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