Giving money to Amazon, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google .etc

It’s like, you can’t have an argument for price gouging, when you’re enabling them by spending. If people were smart, they’d stop giving them money 10 - 15 years ago and they’d be right now, trying to reconstruct so they can be more economically friendly than how they are now.

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    Because with stuff like this you cannot simply say “everyone should know better” they don’t know btr, they don’t care, they don’t understand. For a myriad of reasons people will always do stuff counter to best logic, so you cannot ask them to. The only practical way to prevent stuff like this is through regulation and a government that serves the people. Lol it’s nice to dream.

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    Building electric car charging stations without security cameras.

    About 75% of the chargers are disabled in my city. The primary method of disabling them is roll up with a sawzall and just chop the cable off. Gets you $5 worth of crack, which is always a nice incentive structure when there’s unguarded copper lying around.

    The only chargers that survive are in front of 24 hour businesses.

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    It’s not about “smart” vs “dumb.” People’s ideas are shaped by their Class Interests and Material Coniditons.

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    They’d stop believing people are stupid, especially those they disagree with, and realize that their differences are mostly made up by the ruling class to keep them in line.

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    Stop generalising groups of people.

    I cannot think of a proper example rn, but I see this everywhere.

    meme example

    group a does x

    also group a: says something contradicting x

    This happens across the board, not only in political topics.

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    You’re not getting cashback on your credit cards yous daft cunts 😂 You’re paying it in advance

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    Thinking that they have the “one simple trick” for everything when most matters are actually a complex network of issues where there isn’t one answer.

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    Stop driving (pollution, deaths, cost of living etc) and remodel cities and town around PT and AT , restricted gun ownership

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      How do people living with no PT or AT options stop driving?

      Also, the working masses must remain armed to prevent even further class slavery.

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        I’ve joined three different unions and the only guns I’ve used were loaned to me by a representative of my country for a short period decades ago.

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            OP mentioned remodeling cities around public transport, I think that also goes for more rural areas. There’s a solution for every scale : metro, bus, train, shuttle, etc.

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              I agree there are solutions, I have lived in places with great options. But getting things changed here is very slow and for now you still can’t walk or bike, and there are no buses or trains.

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    They would understand that socialism is not communism. Also you can have capitalism and socialism at the same time, you just have to give and take a little.

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      They would understand that socialism is not communism.

      Socialism has so many definitions that this can be subjectively true or false. This isn’t even some trivial gotcha, the terms were used interchangeably even by significant writers of the 1800s. For another example, a socialist mode of production and a capitalist mode of production are contradictory.

      If one wants to make these kind of broad claims without starting pointless arguments, they’ll need to use a more specific term than ‘socialism’.