Trudge [Comrade]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Behold
    6·
    1 year ago

    In my early 30s. I think your age is the cutoff for when the circuses were good and original.

    For younger Gen Zs and Alphas, it’s nothing but remakes of what we got when we were kids. Pokemon, Harry Potter, and Minecraft are what my nieces and nephews are still into because companies barely invest in new IPs anymore. Even the snack isle look the same as it did 15 years ago, with food companies not investing in new products since the corporations consolidated and there’s no competition anymore.

    It’s not that I don’t like the new thing now that I’m older, it truly feels like there’s less new things since late stage captured markets deemed it inefficient.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Behold
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know if anyone saw the Superbowl but it was pathetic. Not the game itself but the production value behind it considering that it is the biggest event of the year for America.

    The halftime show was cheaply done, commercials looked cheap, the Apple music logo that was repeatedly shown looked like it was thrown together by an intern in about two hours.

    It was the same for other “big productions” from the imperial core in the past year such as Kohaku for example. I’m predicting that 2024 Eurovision will look like crap too. We’re already not getting bread but the circuses also look terrible.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Hot browser action...
    35·
    1 year ago

    Edging is a psychosexual manifestation of the capitalist mode of consumption. By artificially limiting the number of orgasms, the capitalist now controls this once limitless resource that was freely available. The proletariat is forced to acquiesce to ever-smaller proportion of releases while tricking themselves into believing that they’re getting a good deal while the capitalist is getting fat off of proletariat labor.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Theory vs Practice
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    2 years ago

    Expired food transaction prices are closer to cost. It is the necessity for a profit margin that drives grocery stores to sell at a higher price (or as I call it, cost + profit price). Now, you may say that profit margins are bad for grocery stores, which is true (2~3%), which cannot account for discount on expired food (10~30%). However, The grocery store overall margin does not account for the cost of individual items. In terms of percentages, markup on dry goods (cereals, pasta, etc.) and canned goods are lower while the markup for prepared food, frozen food, and bakery goods are more than twice that of dry goods. Which items actually do go on sale then? The ones with higher margins. . The discounted price for fresh food is absolutely possible when you take profit margins out.

    For the microprocessors example, I’ll use the same example as to why that mode of complex production is more likely under communism than capitalism. By your account, ARM designed microprocessors while there wasn’t a huge need for it, but the market for smart phones exploded later. Does this make sense? No, it doesn’t make sense under capitalism, so let’s look at the history of it. ARM (Acorn/Advanced RISC Machine) financially functioned by being funded by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). ARM’s nickname in the UK used to be BBC Micro! I don’t think I need to go on about how communists are all about state-funded enterprises, so I rest my case.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•Theory vs Practice
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    2 years ago

    Alright, now we have a concrete example of a good transaction in capitalist society. It’s buying almost expired food at discounted prices. I remain unconvinced though that it is an example of a good transaction - many others and I have waited until the food is almost expired to buy them at discounted prices. The store is forced to refrigerate and carry the good until it almost expires, and I am forced to wait until the food has gone almost bad to get it. The same transaction could have happened when the food was fresh. The store would be getting the same amount of money, increase their stock rotation and I would be getting fresher food.

    As a show of good faith to demonstrate that I’m not trying to debatebro you, let me give you an example from a socialist society. Cuba. Cuba imports frozen chicken parts from the United States (Tyson Foods, Inc.) because they determined that the US can more efficiently raise and process poultry than they can. In return, Cuba sells paintings to America as Cuba has a thriving art scene encouraged by the state. The end result is that Cubans can draw art and eat chickens for a cheaper price (labor hours) than they would if they had to raise chickens themselves. This is not a unique transaction - Cuba has been engaging in this type of trade with many countries such as the former USSR and China for almost a century for other products such as sugar which Cuba can grow more efficiently due to their climate.

    I have to say that I remain unconvinced that the capitalist mode of trade is better for the individual. You demonstrated that it is better for businesses such as ARM, Samsung, and Qualcomm, but the benefit for you or me, individual human beings, seem lacking.