Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 hours agoNot buying the very last link in the chain doesn’t matter.
It absolutely does. You’re cutting out the part with highest markup. Skipping an entire manufacturing process.
You can get the ingredients for a fraction of the cost compared to a finished product.
Steve@communick.news 16 hours ago
Maybe. But price wasn’t the argument being made. That’s a non sequitur.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
I’m sorry where do you think profit comes from? It’s not grown on profit trees, it’s baked into the price. Higher markup, high price, higher profit.
Non sequitur my ass
Steve@communick.news 16 hours ago
The idea is capitalism. As in buying from large corporations. Whatever the price or profit, the topic was about who and where you’re buying from, not for how much.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
“You want to chance society. Yet you participate in it. Curious…”
I buy the majority of my groceries from a local farmers market. Things I can’t get there I buy from Wal Mart. I buy pizza from a local mom and pop shop, where they live above their restaurant. I do everything I can to make buying from mega corps a last choice decision. My partner and I will be starting our garden next year and growing a lot of our own vegetables. We’ll be raising pork pigs so we don’t have to buy factory pork. There’s so many little things you can do as an individual to choke off the billionaires.
But if you want to keep bending over like you seem to be acting, more power to you. Just don’t blame others for society collapsing.