• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    10 小时前

    Well yes of course they could but why should they? I also think it’s hilarious that people acknowledge that we live in a capitalist society, and then get upset when the realities of that society hit them.

    If you want to go seize the means of production I won’t stop you, but otherwise stop whining about increasing production costs been passed on to the user.

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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      43 分钟前

      It’s a fairly common sentiment that ‘good billionaires’ like Newell will demonstrate that seeking profit by making things people want to buy is more profitable than ruining things people were already buying so margins are higher, thereby making the bad billionaires want to copy them, and then capitalism will start working for the common people, and that therefore seizing the means of production is unnecessary as long as they praise gaben. Pointing out that he’s still accumulating the value of other people’s labour as quickly as he can and he’s just less short-sighted about it, rather than aiming to do good, can be helpful.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      8 小时前

      Im not whining, the commented acted like it was out of their hands when it isnt. Simple as that.