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✨Late Stage Capitalism✨ (europe.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world

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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House

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[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago

I remember the bananas. They were 1-2 dollars a kilo for a long time. Then there was flooding and storms on the banana farms. Prices went up over 10 dollars a kilo. People complained but were told, it was the natural disaster and it's going to come down. Years later bananas haven't been cheaper than 4 dollars a kilo.

Supermarkets found the sweet spot where people would still buy bananas, and they make the most profit.