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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ lemmy.ml yogthos@lemmy.ml
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GiorgioPerlasca lemmy.ml GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
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This is another overproduction crisis. As usual, they are trying to solve it by blaming minorities and creating chaos in a country where they can steal oil.

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Anna lemmy.ml AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Yeah what are those workers gonna do it's not like they can unionize. And if I pay fair wages how am I going to buy my new yacht. You know those aren't that cheap. \s

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limer lemmy.ml limer@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-07-16
#4 · Quote Reply

Still waiting for hyperinflation

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

This is another overproduction crisis. As usual, they are trying to solve it by blaming minorities and creating chaos in a country where they can steal oil.

It's not an overproduction crisis. It's an escalating greed crisis paired with a disappearing guardrails crisis caused by a kakistocracy.

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
#6 · Quote Reply

It's not an overproduction crisis. It's an escalating greed crisis paired with a disappearing guardrails crisis caused by a kakistocracy.

Both of those things produce overproduction, and then overproduction reproduces them as producers and regulators respond to the ongoing crisis.

It's a dialectic, you see.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
#7 · Quote Reply

Both of those things produce overproduction, and then overproduction reproduces them as producers and regulators respond to the ongoing crisis. It's a dialectic, you see.

No, greedy corporations cutting corners, firing people, and raising prices don't cause overproduction.

Stop trying to cram unrelated 21st century real world problems into your oversimplified 19th century framework of false dichotomies.

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

No, greedy corporations cutting corners, firing people, and raising prices don't cause overproduction. Stop trying to cram unrelated 21st century real world problems into your oversimplified 19th century framework of false dichotomies.

Greedy corporations overproducing causes overproduction, and so does removing the guardrails. Read literally any theory.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
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Greedy corporations overproducing causes overproduction, and so does removing the guardrails. Read literally any theory.

They're not overproducing. They're cost cutting and exploiting workers, neither of which is an act of production.

And no, I don't think I'm gonna be wasting any more time reading monist theory such as materialism than I already have.

I prefer NOT trying to cram the whole world into one specious binary.

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

They're not overproducing. They're cost cutting and exploiting workers, neither of which is an act of production. And no, I don't think I'm gonna be wasting any more time reading monist theory such as materialism than I already have. I prefer NOT trying to cram the whole world into one specious binary.

"Corporations are bad because they're greedy" doesn't read like materialism to me, but maybe you've read different theory. Or am I reading that wrong? Are you saying that, actually, you're just done with materialism as a concept?

Because uh.

Or maybe you've never read anything, because you're too smart to waste your time reading other people's thoughts. 🫸

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
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"Corporations are bad because they're greedy" doesn't read like materialism to me, but maybe you've read different theory. Or am I reading that wrong? Are you saying that, actually, you're just done with materialism as a concept? Because uh. Or maybe you've never read anything, because you're too smart to waste your time reading other people's thoughts. 🫸

"Corporations are bad because they're greedy" doesn't read like materialism to me,

Not to me either, but "profiteering equals overproduction and so does regulatory capture" sure does.

Or maybe you've never read anything

Yeah, because that's the ONLY way to disagree with your reductionist theory: to not be aware of it 🙄

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
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"Corporations are bad because they're greedy" doesn't read like materialism to me, Not to me either, but "profiteering equals overproduction and so does regulatory capture" sure does. Or maybe you've never read anything Yeah, because that's the ONLY way to disagree with your reductionist theory: to not be aware of it 🙄

You're definitely too smart to waste your time reading reductionist theories! You only read real theory, like... what, exactly?

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