Comrade drunkcheesesandwich on slash r slash TrueAnon summarised the past year’s situation (and foreseeable future’s) succinctly. I previously saw it enunciated, during the Obama era mainly, that an observable effect of capitalism/neoliberalism on the human condition has resulted in essentials like housing and university tuition and medical care skyrocketing in cost while “nice to have” and luxury shit like telescreens televisions and NATOpedia terminals smartphones plummeting in price.

Now, they’ve come for even those meager scraps.

Now, a handful inhuman demons controlling more wealth than any single real person could spend in 100,000 lifetimes has decided they need every final grain of sand on earth refactored into silicon compute slaves for some deranged vision of an artificial false deity has deprived the proletarians of even the comforts of doomscrolling an autodimming IPS Organic-OLED HD10+++ UHXFS3D screen in the palm of their hand whilst they cry themselves to sleep on a handful of over-the-counter-tranquilisers to make the wake-up alarm for their M-F widget job at 7am tomorrow.

Was planning to get a Pixel 10a with my limited funds to put GrapheneOS on it and be “safe” for security updates for a few years. It fucking spiked $100 like 3 weeks ago, the ‘sale’ now is fucking higher price than what is was base cost like a month ago (it’s personal but no, it’s not the sole specific reason for this ragepost).