As does anyone who, five years ago, didn’t have to think twice about the cost of eating out or hopping in the car. Just a sea of empty storefronts now in a lot of places, and we’re all stuck living in places that are being slowly and systematically deadened in order to make a billionaire’s bank balance go up a few bucks that they’ll never actually live to spend.
Every dollar spent at a company listed on the stock market is (mostly) a dollar whisked out of the economy that regular people function in, and into the other economy that’s used to syphon more money from the first one.
You’re not wrong. Important to shop local where you can, but I think for a lot of people that’s unfortunately just not an option. They’re stuck in a billionaire-constructed ecosystem that locks them into their Walmart and Amazon accounts.
Word. It’s our monetary system. As soon as interest is charged on something (or otherwise getting something for nothing), this is where things inevitably end up, it’s how the math works out. The wealthy remain wealthy because wealth, and they have even more now, accumulating at an even faster pace.
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As does anyone who, five years ago, didn’t have to think twice about the cost of eating out or hopping in the car. Just a sea of empty storefronts now in a lot of places, and we’re all stuck living in places that are being slowly and systematically deadened in order to make a billionaire’s bank balance go up a few bucks that they’ll never actually live to spend.
Every dollar spent at a company listed on the stock market is (mostly) a dollar whisked out of the economy that regular people function in, and into the other economy that’s used to syphon more money from the first one.
You’re not wrong. Important to shop local where you can, but I think for a lot of people that’s unfortunately just not an option. They’re stuck in a billionaire-constructed ecosystem that locks them into their Walmart and Amazon accounts.
Word. It’s our monetary system. As soon as interest is charged on something (or otherwise getting something for nothing), this is where things inevitably end up, it’s how the math works out. The wealthy remain wealthy because wealth, and they have even more now, accumulating at an even faster pace.