The reality where people cannot afford $10-20 things. And the corporations just start charging those poor people interest.
Being poor is expensive.
Of course. How else do you keep poor people poor and rich richer.
Poor people: charge them extra for not affording things.
Rich people: let them buy things they don't need but can afford and then charge poor people to rent those things.
Rich people: just give them expensive stuff in the hopes that they'll buy more expensive stuff from you later.
You see, it's funny because life is a late stage capitalist hellscape from which I cannot wake 😐
It is actually pretty unethical and scummy. I think we need a boycott
Assuming the finance a pizza bit is true, it's a sign that the American economy is on the brink of a deflationary spiral. Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts, and then the capital to create more debt will dry up, resulting in the amount of money in the economy drying up as well. Businesses will be forced to lower prices and scale back operations, which will result in rising unemployment. Which in turn will result in even less money in the economy, perpetuating the circle.
Thats the nature of an economy where most currency circulating is actually just debt.
It's not unlike the economies of ancient Mesopotamia. A farmer who wanted beer would write a promissory note for a few bushels of barley in some clay and give it to the brewer. The brewer could then either wait to collect it at harvest, or trade that note with someone else for something they needed. This would be passed around until it ended up in the hands of people with real wealth, and if the farmer couldn't pay the wealthy person would take whatever they wanted.
It's thought that this is why in many near Eastern societies women are expected to dress plainly, as they wouldn't be chosen when the rich asshole showed up to collect on his debt. One way some societies solved this problem without violence or slavery was to eliminate all debts every several years.
This is from David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" and I highly recommend it.
It's not even like they are struggling financially These big companies just want more to the point of sinking there business because they got a fraction less profit that year
I'd be very curious to see how many people actually use this option and for what price. I could see a family living paycheck to paycheck using this for a child's birthday party. (Don't misinterpret that statement as giddiness.)
Your statement sounds like giddiness! Oh wait never mind. Carry on
If only money machine could go brrrr...
Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts
JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America have already had to write off $4.5 billion in debt that won't be repaid.
Pay over six weeks with what fucking money? Seems like everyone has a fucking "job" to waste my time interviewing for, but no one has a fucking "job" that pays me or even lets me participate in society for free.
EVA nautilus live is basically exploring space irl. Except it's the bottom of the ocean. They stream every day.
If I can't die horrifically and spectacularly, is it even exploring?
I mean you can. Ocean gate was a thing, I'm sure there's others.
To be fair, short of rapid depressurization or suicide, dying that way is hard to do in space. Modern spacecraft have relatively safe environments; no Trek style plasma conduits or transporters to screw that up. The impacts that radiation and zero-g have on the human body are also factored into the mission way in advance. Even crew homicide is carefully mitigated with psych evals and tests, prior to launch.
Instead you have a slew of less fun alternatives. Limited food/water/O2, heating, tumbling into the void on a spacewalk, navigation error, all set up slow and agonizing ways to go. Especially that last one - you could wind up knowing that you're going to die a whole month ahead of time, with nothing to do but wait.
I was hoping for unplanned rapid disassembly, I can do all the boring endings at home.
It’s wild that I can’t tell if financing a pizza is real or not
This is horrible
Oh man, and it's from Uber. So not only do they want you to pay for the pizza, and interest, they want you to pay up to 100% more for delivery. They used to deliver these things for free, in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza was free too. The enshitification continues!
You're not born to early to explore space, just too poor!
No man's sky is actually a pretty cool game.
Okay this is disgusting. It's only gonna make people's money problems worse. If you can't pay for a domino's pizza out of the pocket, maybe it's a better idea to go for something cheaper like a freezer pizza from the supermarket. Most people picking this option will be making a mistake.
i be financing the 2 dollar vbucks 🤦♂️
I’ve seen people put fucking mixed drinks on payment plans. We’re fucked lol
Thanks trickle down economics!
Unfortunately have done this before with food when I had an addiction to ordering all my food through ubereats.
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