• @Allonzee
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    I want the owners to feel uncomfortable.

    Im all for this.

    Put Luigi everywhere.

    Even they look out their limo windows at the plebs walking by.

    Let them see Luigi, let them see DENY DEFEND DEPOSE

    Make the owner’s guard gated world feel like a gilded cage.

    Make them feel explicitly unwelcome on every sidewalk they too have to walk down to get to the resturaunt/show/etc they want to go to. Everywhere their exploited congregate.

    They destroyed the Commons, send the message they can get the fuck out of them.

    You might think it won’t matter, but these are the types that lose their fucking minds being denied anything.

    • @grue
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      721 hours ago

      Make this its own post, please.

  • @FiremanEdsRevenge
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    There’s nothing like showing you’re against corporate America, like buying merchandise from corporations stating that you are. /s

    • @very_well_lost
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      The terrible genius of capitalism is that it can commodify anything, including criticism of capitalism itself.

    • @[email protected]
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      While yeah the store fronts are probably large corporations (Stripe, Shopify, etc)… Most of these sellers are likely small privately owned businesses.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 day ago

        Yes, but probably in China, just churning out low quality junk to capitalize on current events.

        • @[email protected]
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          Hey, at least those poor souls in the sweatshops have access to healthcare.

          But you’d be surprised a lot of people still run small Silk screening shops.

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            Hey, at least those poor souls in the sweatshops have access to healthcare.

            Fun fact: China doesn’t have free healthcare.

            Edit: this is always a guaranteed way to get salty tankie downvotes!

            • @[email protected]
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              While that’s partially true, it’s also reductionist, and the trend in China is to expand coverage, not the other way around.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_China

              Healthcare in China is primarily provided by state-owned hospitals. Medical insurance is primarily administered by local governments. Over the twentieth century and twenty-first century, using both public and private medical institutions and insurance programs. As of 2020, about 95% of the population has at least basic health insurance coverage.

              Medical assistance has subsidized 78 million poor people to participate in basic medical insurance, and the coverage of poor people has stabilized at over 99.9%.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 day ago

    Funny how the driving behaviour of CEOs (do anything for more money) is the same thing driving all these folks trying to make money off of this incident. Obviously the amounts of money in each case is way different but still …

    • ArchRecord
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      The difference is that, in this case “anything” for these merch sellers is selling merchandise with words printed on them for money, whereas “anything” for healthcare insurance CEOs is denying care for people and allowing them to suffer and die.

      Sure, they’re both doing it to turn a profit, but the motive and rationale is entirely different.

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      When all of your reasonable material desires are met (other people live here too), and your family’s material future secure, if you still need, demand and pursue mooaaaar, you have a disease.

      A disease our toxic culture nurtures. A socially destructive disease.

  • @xc2215x
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    Not a surprise honestly.