re: Is this what living in a socialist country is like??

Aside from the empty shelves and long self-checkout lines, our local Walmart now boasts business hours of 8 AM 'til 5 PM, daily. Working folks can't shop for groceries during the week. That's wild.

I went to canes today, the dining room is no longer open. I asked why and they said there is a staff shortage....If I remember correctly canes does not have anyone serving food to us in the dining room. Does it take less people to only cook for the drive through? Compnaies are just using this as an excuse to save overheard cost while increasing food prices dues to supply chain problems or rising food costs.

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wouldn't put it past Cantrell to setup Covid checkpoints at entrances to the city. No vax no entry.

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Unnecessary. I will never go back to that shite hole.

Actually no, this is what living in an oligarchy is like.

The world is under essentially one economic system which is oligarchical capitalism. The only incentive for those who run the system is to acquire more wealth in a pissing contest only they compete in.

For the last 50-60 years we have seen many of these oligarchs run into a wall in which they could no longer make more money by making better products. So what did they do? They cut out their biggest overhead - labor.

Then they shipped all your daddy and grand daddy's jobs to China, India, Bandladesh, Vietnam, wherever - as long as it was cheaper than paying you - an american.

Once they did that, they world's supply chains became interconnected. This is how you get strawberries in September. But it's also how you get an entire system disrupted because a gust of wind knocked a ship aground half a world away.

That ain't socialism bub, that's exploitative capitalism. It's what allows the big tech companies to censor you and keeps the government from regulating them as a public utility (that would be socialism). It's what keeps a small family in control of an energy grid that hasn't been updated in a hundred years. And that's what has made you and your family's wages decline for the last half a century.

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I would hesitate to call it socialist. It’s more completely dysfunctional quasi-authoritarianism. It’s more akin to a Central American government than a socialist one where there is a free market that is completely hindered by a governmental albatross.

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Very well said.

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Compnaies are just using this as an excuse to save overheard cost while increasing food prices dues to supply chain problems or rising food costs.

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Bingo

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el Gaucho

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Where do you losers come from

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Where do you losers come from

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says the guy crying about olivia dunne in all the comment sections

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If these debris removal companies don't start picking up piles of trees soon I'm going to lift the burn ban at my house. I am tired of looking at it.

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They get paid less for trees. They will pick up all the house debris before moving on to trees.

These are minor littler tremors Bro. The real quake has yet to even take place, and when it does, none of this country is going to like it, but that’s our future, so better get used to it.