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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices (just for you, and just on that day) because you psychologically are more willing to spend in that moment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's fucked up. Why this legal?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because we live in a capitalist hellscape and the companies that implemented these tricks were the fastest growing segment of our economy for like 15 years (esp after the 2008 crash) so the government turned a blind eye. Now they control the world and are able to literally buy politicians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've heard that if we vote, all these problems will go away. But every time I vote, there's never an option on the ballets for "Guillotines"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

You need to vote for people that will PUT guillotines on the ballot! If there are none, find someone who will, or be the change you want to see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The free market will provide guillotines if the people truly want them. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there's a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don't tell you the price, or we tell you only the 'highest price that nobody pays' "

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Perhaps it's not a lot of skill needed, but a particular set of skills