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[–] 64 points 1 week ago (6 children)

.... set to fall for us pee-ons who can't or won't be able to afford anything

As usual, our rich and wealthy overlords will live in luxury while complaining about how they lost 5% of their billions of dollars of wealth.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Until it's time to storm the Bastille.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    No one's going to storm any Bastille until we are threatened with actual starvation. Past revolutions happened because people had absolutely nothing to lose but their lives.

    Wealthy overlords have figured out that as long as they keep our food supply available, we will never revolt. It doesn't mean that we will be happy or that we will disagree with it .... it's as long as food is made available to us no matter how meager or unpleasant, then we will never rebel.

    So unless we're starving, we'll never rebel ... governments and wealthy owners have figured out that they have to keep us fed, even if its just a little (and even if its shitty food), to keep us pacified.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    That still assumes people have a place to stay. When jobs don't cover rent anymore and you're having a lot of folks holding an eviction notice things get ugly a bit faster.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I agree but I've been near homeless a few times in my life and honestly, it doesn't really bother me that much. I grew up poor on a Native reserve in northern Ontario ... we were so poor we didn't have running water in the house ... that's where I was born and raised. So having no home, a bad home or very few conveniences doesn't really bother me ... and when you lay everything down, most people can live with it - correction, most people can SURVIVE it.

    Food on the other hand is a deal breaker ... if I or anyone runs out or starts missing food ... we'll become desperate and do anything for our next meal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Why would they keep the food supply available? The food companies aren't stopping to maximize profits because that's endangering the profits of someone else. They are gonna keep maximizing and lowering the cost of the supply chains at the expense of resiliency. More and more people would go hungry. Either enough of us go hungry gradually or a supply shock puts most of us out of food rather quickly.

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