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Someone stockpiling in Canada and Mexico, some of what isn't delivered in LA, would make a killing. We should be putting an export tax on Chinese made goods going to the US unless we want to follow the coyote. 😂

Do they have the equivalent for Lemmy?

E: Found it using Kagi... It just wasn't turned on for me.

I see. Thanks!

What's Hyprland?

This rings true.

My brain instinctively thought the hand being stopped was Thatcher's.

Don't worry, cheque's in the mail.

I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.

Totally great for Tom in the short to medium term. Long term.. maybe, if he finds an isolated self-sufficient place to spend the rest of his days. Either way he'll be better off than the rest of us no matter what.

Not sure if sarcastic or I didn't make my point well enough. Just in case I'll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It's not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck Prime would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you'll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it's happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, Big Entertainment does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money... for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they're not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.

Yes this is how things are supposed to work in the system but my point is that it's a) driven by the system, not individuals, and b) the consequences are unsustainable.

Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.

Thing is, it's not the dude. It's the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don't, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then do a hostile or peaceful purchase of the dude's firm.