I bet those bedbugs were vectors for some type of bioweapon so they could eliminate their greta problem. She needs to get checked out by a trusted physician asap.
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ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?
1·4 months agoUnfortunately Americans using their brain when they purchase something means they are looking to maximize their quality to cost ratio. I do this all the time when shopping for automotive tools. Lots of companies sell what is more or less the same exact quality product made by the same exact manufacturer. And if you peruse amazon(so hard not to even send traffic their way) you will find the same item sold by say matco, cornwell, mac or bluepoint rebranded in different packaging for 15-25% the price asked by those other high end brands. And in some instances i have seem people open up the product and find it is packaged with the more expensive brand name logo on it. So when 50% of Americans earn $42,200/year($20.29/hr) or less and when you remove the highest earning 10% from the data set then the average wage in the USA is $58,000 ($28/hr) American’s known only one way to shop smart and that is look for the best deal and ignore the ethical implications because most of us can not afford to figure this into our shopping habits.
And this is compounded even more so by the reality that us yankees are being lied to by the financial institutions at the helm of our societal machinery. Inflation statistics are wildly skewed to reduce the possibility of the working class rioting and fomenting a revolution so the passive income stream for the ultra wealthy will continue to flow.
The world bank and international monetary fund who’s inflation calculations are regurgitated to us hu the FED and all of Wall Street- they use consumer price index to figure inflation statistics and CPI is flawed in multiple ways but the most important of them being that CPI does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply as well as leveraged national debt/ deficit, and these 2 factors are the primary driving force of inflation. And if you even mention the fact that the price of gold foes account for those two factors then youre called ridiculous and a few will try to spew out a ton of nonsensical economics information at you but all you need to know is that in the 172 years of the US dollar as a standardized currency the price of gold only fluctuated ≈95% from $18 to $35 (and the bulk of that was when FDR had to take drastic measures to save the economy after wall street malfeasance that caused the Great Depression which was mild in comparison to the last 40 years of fraud by wall street so FDR made it illegal to hoard gold and bought up the majority of the supply at $20.67/ounce to store in the newly built fort knox and when his administration was certain they had the majority of the supply they revalued gold wt $35/ounce where it remained until nixon ended the gold standard permanently in 1971 by withdrawing from the bretton woods agreement) but since nixon ended the gold standard permanently 54 years ago the value of gold has increased in direct proportion to the national debt going from $35 to $3400/ounce or ≈9600% compared to the national debt increasing from $400 billion to 37.3 trillion ≈9400% in the same exact time frame.
So this is why the silent generation l, boomers and most of Gen x had it so well. Why my grandfather was able to buy a house in 1955 just 5 years after coming to the usa at the age of 18 on a minimum wage salary in an Ivy League college town for less than $3000 but today federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in going on 17 years and average rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in the same city is now $3000/ month if you go outside the city its $2200-2500 depending on your standards but the reality is that it cost more to purchase and maintain enslaved people during chattel slavery some 170+ years ago than minimum wage workers anywhere in the Usa are currently paid today. We are slaves convinced of an illusory freedom. Mainly through the eradication of high education standards that were the norm after the Great Depression up until the end of the civil rights movement Fascism has creeped into sociopolitical system and taken a strong foot hold while using digital medial to effectively disburse propaganda and condition many to support ideas against their own self interest and simultaneously believe what is in the better interest of the working class is evil and foolish. Things couldn’t be more upside down than they are now.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?
7·4 months agoI think you have misread what I said.
The richest 1% (3.4 million people) own 44.6 trillion. Half of that is 22.3 trillion so 22,300,000,000,000 divided by 336.6 million (336,600,000) and you’re left with $66,646.74 now take the other half and divide it up amongst the 3.4 million richest 1% of Americans and they are left with $6,558,823.53 each
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?
1·4 months agoYou’re talking about a gray market, like in legal cannabis states where prices are still high and there are ridiculous barriers preventing those who were growing cannabis illegaly before “legalization”(or rather prohibition 2.0) from entering the industry so they sell at a lower price and undercut the market. But these people are not multi million dollar cartels and in 97 cases out of 100 cartels have already moved out of the cannabis trade or they have taken steps to enter the legal trade. Im talking about a commercial environment where violence is not needed to protect the producer and their profits, the main idea behind prohibition is this enforcing of abstinence only moral Puritanism built on religious fundamentalism and racism/ white supremacy. There is definitely a way to undercut the entire black market but it is almost impossible within a capitalistic economy the leas regulated the more unfeasible it is.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?
2·4 months agoOr we could just end the prohibition of drugs because it does nothing beneficial for society and destroy the black market instead of doing bullshit like “decriminalizing” which doesn’t do any good because the black market still flourishes
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
1·5 months agoReminds me of the tool song “jerk off”
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
1·5 months agoFuck, that is the truth. If i could edit the poorly cropped meme i cropped i would :(
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
1·5 months agoNo bottle, maybe a diaper.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
2·5 months agoNo because after he accumulates all the wealth he had in life he just gets to be eternally tortured like every one else but with a useless collection of acquired wealth
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
2·5 months ago24/7 manual bull semen extraction at minimum wage for servers tips allowed but only acceptable tips are bull semen.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
2·5 months agoWhatever do you mean friendly fellow hooman 🤖
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
6·5 months agoThe computer is unfortunately down, you will need to call our toll free line to get in touch with a live representative…. After being queued through our patent pending AI filtration system (hosted by Amazon web services!) to properly sort your query all before sitting on hold listening to Nickleback and Benson Boone songs on shuffle/repeat
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
6·5 months agoYou have my vote
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldOPto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth
15·5 months agoHuman civilization most likely wont be here anymore in 9 million+ years at the rate we are “progressing”
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•KY man wakes during organ harvesting procedure, prompting federal investigation
4·5 months agoIsnt this just the most accurate l representation of our disgustingly disheartening current timeline
This is an explosive opinion
I follow the same rule with my wife.
Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?
2·5 months agoEven then how whats your deductible or your out of pocket cost before insurance kicks in and then your doctor will have to prove you needed it they might stick you with a bill anyway and 4 months in IC will likely be $5009-15,000 per day maybe more depending on any surgical procedures. The land of the free run by the POTUS- Pedo of the United states, what a great time to be dying



Israel’s military intelligence apparatus constantly sets the bar for sleazy low life behavior. This is a military that put out s propaganda campaign legitimizing the rape of illegaly detained Palestinians. I would not put biological warfare beyond their means and intent