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Will Stancil with another banger: https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1730723754223800617
My mistake, I thought everything costs more and rent has fucking tripled since covid. I guess I'm actually not poor despite my lack of money
Did you read the basket of goods they use? It includes a tv ffs. Apparently tv prices matter to people who have to choose which meal they skip.
The wall is too kind for these stains upon humanity
I for one am purchasing a new TV each month. It’s a staple for our household. We go out and it’s like a nice little tradition we’ve established. Then we put it in the living room, hold hands, and skip around it chanting while we burn the old one at its feet so it knows to behave.
Tv did take a huge dip in price (completely unrelated to the fact the majority of people were watching content on their phones or computer screens I'm sure) so literally every article uses them, the one thing that's decreased in price, as a comparison point to show stuff isn't getting more expensive.
The main reason TVs have dropped in price is because under surveillance capitalism the TV watches you. On a lot of models more money is made from all of the spyware and adtech that comes with TV than from the sale of the TV itself.
Killah Priest "information", from Heavy Mental, 1998
Haha, whoa, true on every point, love when people nail it
Yeah it's the fuckin' best...
🎶 You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape I'm watching all the time 🎶
This explains why it's virtually impossible to buy a "dumb" TV anymore.
Have you checked your bank account for a recent inheritance from your dear aunt sally?
The fact that I have a very very rich great aunt who never spent a dime on herself (her husband who died before I was born, so must have been when she was in her 40s or so was like one of the earliest investors in AT&T and obviously that paid off big.) is pretty much what's keeping me able to not be homeless. So...yeah, that is essentially the case.