• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Another fun fact: Walkable neighborhoods are cheaper to build. But we’ve made that illegal, and instead build insanely expensive car infrastructure everywhere, then wonder why we have an affordability crisis.

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        2 hours ago

        That’s not at all how that relationship works.

        Reducing the cost that it takes to produce something does not affect its margins negatively

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          And since all ownership is kind of souped together, profits are averaged across industries.

          Why the hell would you accept the capitalist lie that the owner class would compete against each other?

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            I hate this kinda thought. It is very much based on marxism (class consciousness or whatever), but very much conspirational. ‘They’ control everuthing and don’t want you to know about it!

            Obviously there is to some level of cooperarion between the greedy fucks, but it really isnt like that. There are people who became billionaires off of green energy companies, and who would actively push in favor of more eletric cars, so that they make more money, inspite of the petrol companies.

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              It’s how it works. You don’t own one. You own 5% of twenty things, derivatives in ten others, and one chunk of money in a hedge fund that has you diversified into literally everything.

              Its not a conspiracy. Nothing is behind closed doors here. It’s literally ‘diversify your investments’. The first thing literally any competent investment advisor tells you.

              But ownership is much more abstracted now, so shares aren’t just shares, they’re bundled and derived, until derivative bundle derivative product bundle derivatives are 10% of your portfolio. It’s literly just a matter of class now. The actual money doesn’t matter.