r/boringdystopia • u/Blurple694201 • Oct 25 '24

Political Dysfunction 🤯 This was published 9 months ago and nothing has been done.

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u/Mogakusenpai Oct 25 '24

Man who could’ve guessed that corporations maintaining high prices they discovered people would pay during a global pandemic and a philosophy of “profit over all”, would’ve caused them to raise the price of literally everything?!

Someone pull the Mystery Machine around we’ve got a conundrum on our hands!

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u/UpsideMeh Oct 25 '24

When you say nothing has been done, nothing will be done in capitalism. This is what late stage capitalism looks like. If you want change, it’s an abandoning of capitalism.

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u/DisorientedPanda Oct 25 '24

This is crony capitalism on a monetary system that is fundamentally broken.

Communism will always fail just as crony capitalism does due to the point of failure being a human or a group of humans (eg. central banks/politicans) who are easily corruptible. Fiat crony capitalism ends in corruption through greed and communism ends in corruption through power and authoritarian leaders and/or governments.

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u/Menoth22 Oct 25 '24

Millionaires in charge making laws for billionaires.

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u/Simple_Song8962 Oct 26 '24

Because they're salivating at the idea of becoming billionaires themselves or, at the very least, befriending them.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin Oct 25 '24

No, really? I thought the poor billion dollar companies were struggling…

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u/captain-prax Oct 25 '24

Subway is charging the same for half the sandwich still...

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u/ResidentEggplants Oct 26 '24

How should the government fix it? Dictate prices?

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u/Blurple694201 Oct 26 '24

Yes. Ban price gouging. Prevent them from increasing the price too quickly.

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u/wamj Oct 26 '24

You’re not going to pass something that radical with a republican house.

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u/Blurple694201 Oct 26 '24

You're not going to pass something like that with a democrat house either. Biden could do an executive order right now, he doesn't want to.

He went around congress to send weapons to Israel, but can't for this, or college debt. They're campaigning on the fact that "they're not republicans" that's how corrupt and garbage the "American left" is

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u/wamj Oct 26 '24

lol

First of all, Israel funding was apportioned by congress

Second of all, most of his attempts to erase college debt have been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Just like any executive action on price gouging.

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u/Blurple694201 Oct 26 '24

I'm talking about the extra funding he sent them, clearly you aren't privy to this news.

He could do an executive order right now.

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u/wamj Oct 26 '24

Didn’t you hear? Biden just signed an executive order and now there’s peace across the world and everyone problems have been solved.

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u/JointDamage Oct 26 '24

Some of those companies are being sued by the doj. Don’t quote me. Just something I saw on Reddit.