this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

$20? That's amateur stuff. Buy my $999 course and you'll learn from a master how to apply capitalism to problems!*

*For legal reasons, note that I did not say "how to apply capitalism to solve problems"

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For profit reasons, neither did the capitalist

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

True. A distressing amount of the time, you can make far more money from a problem existing than from solving it.