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hunter

(40,262 posts)

5. I don't "want to buy" anything. Problem solved.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:53 PM

7 hrs ago

They can't win if you don't play the game.

I'll take a pass on consumerism. I don't want to be a consumer. I'm a human being. I want a safe, secure, comfortable place to live. I want clean water and healthy food. I want appropriate medical care. And so on.

Consumer "choices" are like the hoops little dogs dressed in tutus jump through at the circus.

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Prices in the Machine - An Emergent AI Threat [View all] Celerity 9 hrs ago OP

Look at the cost of PC RAM and how much that's increased. Initech 9 hrs ago #1

That's trippy cause I was pricing RAM yesterday thinking of going from 4*8 to 4*16 sticks AZJonnie 8 hrs ago #3

You're looking at DDR4 prices. Initech 6 hrs ago #7

Umm ... my post specifically says I'm looking at DDR4 prices AZJonnie 6 hrs ago #8

Cory Doctorow and others have been arguing this also. Surveillance capitalism. erronis 9 hrs ago #2

There's already a lot of price fixing going on in the housing rental market dickthegrouch 8 hrs ago #4

I don't "want to buy" anything. Problem solved. hunter 7 hrs ago #5

Hey, that's capitalism. LudwigPastorius 7 hrs ago #6