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Short selling spice derivatives based on future forcast retirement community being built in order to afford the $5/bottle surge after the petrochemical train devalued its load into the aqueducts. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Posadas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

pricing can be completely automated

when that's working there's no reason they couldn't do surge pricing. an infrastructure existing with only the prospect of modifying their pricing algorithms & updating it more frequently to enchance profitability.

you can't squeeze blood from a fucking stone

you can bleed an awful lot from monopolized essential goods

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

You can't make a profit from people who have no money to spend

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

this is just a basic contradiction of capital, obviously its true in the long term but capitalists will always pursue the road of maximum profit to the ends of a common ruin of the classes. they're going to do surge pricing and all manner of new horrors if not restrained by a state or overthrown