There's always been wealth but ignoring the glaring issue of inequality and objectives of those wealthy is very much why we're seeing the decline on most daily products. Has there been innovative of course but when ultra wealth is presented to you in the form of "create value" with very little guardrails frankly you can exploit it as previously mentioned in my last post.

There's a significant difference between 60s and 70s to now inflation adjusted and its certainly not your average American winning for all the "value" being created.

You want to look zero guardrails look no further than Miami in the USA. Exploit, exploit exploit the average workers or builders to build the ultra rich a playground. Florida brags about its lack of regulation.

You misconstrue, thinking people hate the individual billionaire or billionaires but that's not what people are generally saying. Their ire or issue is with gov't allowing them to so freely remove any gaurd rails in place via influence which has been a huge determinat to your average worker especially blue collar. It's in many forms via worker regulations to the amount of market share companies are now allowed to obtain. Go back 50 or 60 years you had significant competition which also meant less single influence. You look at the market today it's dominated by few that continue to acquire everything competitive. The result speaks for itself.

This post was edited by SBD on Mar 16 2025 11:18am

i guess all the people who use amazon disagree lol

There's bad apples as billionaires, just like there are bad cops and bad teachers. Doesn't make them all evil...

What if someone is massively wealthy just from investing wisely?

Gotta give it to Bezos, he’s good at crushing local businesses and limiting options in some areas.

I can't use Amazon without insane shipping costs, 38 bucks for a jar of peanut butter for instance but sometimes I get it shipped south and pick it up when I'm down there and toss it in my bags for the way back.

What an absolute decline in my opinion Amazon is. Atleast Canadian Amazon. The amount of shit. I use a lot of like electrical connectors, fuses, stuff for all outdoor toys. You have to either know a established quality name brand to search or you're flooded with thousands of what I assume are Chinese sellers selling dog shit products.

And usually if it's a good name brand product I can just get it cheaper through some other distributor.

This post was edited by SBD on Mar 16 2025 02:25pm

It's not that I would argue that this narrative doesn't have some truth to it, but rather I simply don't think it's very relevant. In my experience people like amazon because they can get their needs met at the click of a button, in a short window of time in most cases, and the consumers simply don't care about the circumstances of the people who are working to ensure their needs are being met. This isn't because of amazon, but rather the preferences of the people using it.

You’re in one of the territories right? Whenever I’m up north for work, I hear people complain that they’ve become dependant on Amazon for some necessities, and although the prices are low they get shafted with shipping costs and delays.




Generation of autists who can’t fathom the idea of going to a store to buy a product they need. It’s true though that they usually are the first to hypocritically complain about Amazon though.

I would more so describe it as a generation of elites and their preferred preferences... only the most exalted in the past had servants willing to serve their any needs. Modern upper-middle class folks can achieve it easily today.

Good read lol 😆

I don't think it's envy, so much as there being a difference of values related to economic and social systems. To many on the left, the very idea of a billionaire is abhorrent and a society that glorifies wealth hoarding, or at least is uncritical or apathetic towards it, is culturally ill.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Mar 16 2025 05:21pm