• UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3116 hours ago

      That reminds me of a line on the very first episode of the 1990s X-Men cartoon, where Jubilation Lee accidentally blows up an arcade game booth and the owner gets mad.

      “Do you have any idea how much that game costs?!” grill-broke

      “Yeah, a quarter.” big-cool

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    17 hours ago

    When I was there I felt like a medieval adventurer because I could just find a market stall and pay for a meal with one coin

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3917 hours ago

      How liberating that must feel, that food is cheap and plentiful that you don’t have to worry about something that’s a human right. I joked about it up-arrow up there, but things are so dysfunctional in the imperial core that being food secure is a sign of having wealth, total peasant shit.

      • SadArtemis [she/her]
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        2817 hours ago

        Pretty much. My partner says I have a “great depression mentality” around food (stockpiling, etc) and it’s true…

        • IHave69XiBucks
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          1115 hours ago

          i grew up poor in the US and i literally learned how to grow calorie crops and have some in my backyard right now that could keep me fed for like a month if needed. My idea of luxury is having the money to replace my old broken shit that barely works but i keep using.

      • SSJ3Marx [he/him]
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        814 hours ago

        Not China, but Japan felt this way to me too. I knew other Americans when I lived there who would insist that we eat at the Chilis on base, when we could go to just about any Japanese restaurant and get better food for half the price.

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    Amazon.com, Inc. has a list of I believe 12 or 13 core tenets that they refer to as “Leadership Principles”. These tenets are supposed to permeate company culture and impact every decision made. Their hiring process vets candidates based on these tenets. One of the central tenets is Frugality. Amazon.com, Inc. is a company with a $2T market cap. It is the 5th largest company in the world by market cap. Are you, Mr. Los Angeles Times, saying that Big Business is wrong?

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      I love the irony of a company who’s most well known service is an ecommerce site that tries to manipulate people into impulse buying and overconsuming having “frugality” as one of it’s leadership principles. It’s up there with the Bezos Post using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a slogan or Google using “don’t be evil” as their motto.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      There’s a line on the very first episode of the 1990s X-Men cartoon, where Jubilation Lee accidentally blows up an arcade game booth and the owner gets mad.

      “Do you have any idea how much that game costs?!” grill-broke

      “Yeah, a quarter.” big-cool