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[-] WakeUpSmashPots@lemmy.today 3 points 21 hours ago

Wait... Do rich people think we need roommates to... MAKE OUR BEDS??? Are they so delusional they think "well I know the poors can't afford maids like me, so how does their bed get made? Oh, I see! This is why they need roommates! They get roommates so the roommate will make their bed!"

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

About what I'd expect from people that have to pay for friends

[-] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Rich people really do cosplay as poor eh

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

Wait, were roommates supposed to be making our beds?

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That's it! I'm calling my old roommate to tell her what a bitch she was for only making her own bed.

[-] Darkonion@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

At first I thought that robot was folding a person into that bed.

[-] WappleFF27@feddit.online 157 points 2 days ago

Aside from the affordability thing...

Do rich people think we make each others beds? Tuck each other in for the night?

[-] raid_dad@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

Normalize tucking in the homies and kissing them goodnight.

[-] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Did you even think this through?

If I tuck them in, they will have to get out of bed to tuck me in. It’s going to create and endless cycle where we are up all night kissing each other.

A better solution is to simply share the same bed and kiss in it.

[-] raid_dad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Alternatively: we just discovered infinitely renewable energy. 😘

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, man. Right after we shave the bread and bean and dole it out.

mickey shaves and serves transparent bread

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[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Let me translate this thought process from rich asshole to regular human:

  • People need roommates because they cannot afford to live on their own.
  • The reason they cannot afford to live on their own is because they aren't working enough hours (to make him more money.
  • The reason they aren't working enough hours is because they have to spend too much time engaged in activities that aren't work.
  • A robot frees them of having to do things that aren't work.
  • Thefore a domestic robot will make his workers do more work and achieve their purpose of working and paying all their bills.
[-] hdsrob@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

They just forgot the part where the people that need roommates don't have money to buy a robot, or pay the subscription for the robot, or the "don't kill me in my sleep" premium upgrade for said robot subscription.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well you see, if we increase costs to a point where you need to work 100+ hours a week just to survive then you'll have to buy the robot just to do it.

The model is probably that you have to rent or finance the robot or something so that it just costs you productivity instead of a big up-front cost.

[-] bathroomconnoisseur@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I needed that explanation

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[-] AviAdi@lemmy.world 213 points 2 days ago

The rich lack the empathy to care that you can't "afford" something. They think everything is a choice. The homeless chose to be homeless as much as they chose to be rich. Fucking delusional evil people!

[-] Blurntout@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 days ago

We are the collection of all of “our” choices.

Even the ones we made before we were born by people we’ll never meet lol

[-] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They genuinely believe their familial history and it being the reason they’re rich or privileged enough to become wealthy is their own doing, that they actively participated in creating that opportunity and they’ll call themselves a rags to riches success story for investing a small inheritance or loan of a million dollars into hundreds of millions, saying it was all grind and sheer willpower. They think everyone who didn’t do that is dumber than they are, and then they’ll tell you all about their neat ideas on how scientists and experts are wrong and how all their boys at the private country club told them the real truth about health and economics and women and the poor and anyone who doesn’t believe it is a sucker and deserves it.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

It's funny how the most valid part of Christianity, that rich people are the most evil, is the part modern "Christians" reject the most.

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[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

Who makes their bed, anyway? I cannot think of a reason to do so.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

I rarely do, there's usually a cat or three on it

My mom just moved into an assisted-living facility and immediately had a fall trying to make her own bed. They of course make the beds for you there but only after breakfast and my mom's mind at 7:30 am couldn't handle the "mess" ... of one corner of the blanket being turned down. Meanwhile I just sleep on my mattress with a mexican blanket over me.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My aunt once told me "making your bed is like making yourself a present you can unwrap later".

Didn't inspire me at all

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

As someone who has perpetually battled the blankets never being correct - you're gonna end up doing it anyway. The only difference is that one way looks much nicer than the other, and has the added benefit of being a start-up ritual.

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

Does the robot pay the rent?

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Why is my roommate making my bed?

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Why isn't mine?!!!

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[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No it costs $20,000. Then costs $400/month for the premium Roommate plan. $50 for the AI-compatible sheets only washable by your CoMpAny-ApProVeD washing machine.

Also you pay with your private data

Warning: Robot not responsible for any damaged goods, or murdered humans.

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[-] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

This is just weird

I looked it up thinking there had to be more to this that just isn't pictured here. We're missing context or something

I can find nothing.

This guy literally thinks people have roommates to make their bed for them?

Even thinking people have roommates to help with chores, instead of bills, why the fuck would he think the main chore we need help with is "making my bed"?

Like I'm going to bring somebody else into my house so they can make my bed for me? My bed? That's weird as fuck

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Maybe he thinks roommates is what poor people call their maids?

Though I'd happily make my potential roommates bed every morning instead of paying rent.

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 36 points 2 days ago

He thinks maids are housemates.

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[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 days ago

Scenario 1:

  • 2 bedroom apartment. $2000 a month.
  • I pay $1000 a month.
  • Roommate pays $1000 a month.
  • Split utilities between us both.

Scenario 2:

  • 2 bedroom apartment. $2000 a month.
  • I pay $2000 a month.
  • I buy bed making robot. $15,000-20,000
  • I pay bed making robot subscription. $500+ a month.
  • I pay for all utilities

I can see how Scenario 2 will be much better for me. Sign me up.

Side note: That fucking robot better have a handjob mode.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

I mean, if you like getting handjobs from an Indian dude remotely controlling your robot, sure I guess? Though expect it to do that thing where it looks like it shuts down and then starts up again as it goes through a bunch of Indian dudes who see the request and then quit their job on the spot. Just hope you don't get one of the ones that punches you first.

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[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 138 points 2 days ago

Rich people think roommates are servants

[-] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 35 points 2 days ago

Omg they were roommates!

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[-] Janx@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

What a fucking idiot. How out-of-touch can they be!?

[-] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

It's so out of touch that it flips around to being some bizarro joke that no comedian could actually come up with. So far removed from the reassuring embrace of reason, yet somehow manages to capture everything wrong with this world in but a few words. It's... beautiful.

[-] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm imagining that guy spraying water in the face of a whimpering man chained to a radiator while yelling "Shut up! Bad roommate!"

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[-] joyjoy@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago

No, the robot killed the "need a maid" argument.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

No, the robot killed Grandma when it glitched out (having never properly functioned to start) fell on her and punctured her lung.

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[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 40 points 2 days ago

I refuse to believe that there's a bipedal robot that can make my bed, with out ridiculous specific programming.

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[-] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

Aren't those types of robots mostly remotely controlled?

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[-] drmoodmood@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

What's even funnier is that the video of the robot making the bed was AI generated. This bed making robot doesn't even exist, yet guy has to shame people having roommates? :D

[-] katzimir@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

This looks like bad translation. For many asian languages the words maid and mate look sound quite similar. And the distance from house too room might also just be bad translation. Aaand if you change room mate to house maid the headline makes a LOT more sense...

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[-] silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 30 points 2 days ago

Instead of sharing rent with a roommate, people will now not want to save money and actually pay more by purchasing a robot.

🤡🤡🤡🤡

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