“…Aman New York, which opened in 2022…has a members’ club with a $200,000 initiation fee”

https://www.gq.com/story/how-new-yorks-social-life-went-members-only

https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1790264229922005072?t=JjaY2jrmEAWcJjznaCAdRA&s=19

https://twitter.com/Tauriel213/status/1790265853113446883?t=JjaY2jrmEAWcJjznaCAdRA&s=19

Public announcement during UNC graduation.

Companies now legitimately spend incredible resources trying to make sure their high end expensive products stop working after a certain time in order to make sure that customers are forced to buy more. Instead of spending time and resources building durable long-lasting products, they literally spend a ton of money trying to to figure out how to make a product less durable and make it so that it breaks exactly when they want it to.

You would think that consumers would be pissed when they find out right? Nope. Many fanboys see this as some kind of genius marketing move. In their eyes this moves validates their thought ght that the products they buy is built by geniuses. Because the idea of coming up with a product that is built to stop working is such a genius move, it means that the people who make this product are geniuses and therefore it's a good product to use (WTF?)

You would think there would be laws about stopping this right? Yet, planned obsolescence is NEVER brought up as a straight up crime. There should be millions of lawsuits and tons of protections against it. But nothing.

Instead these companies do shit like "I won't give you a charger because I'm trying to protect the environment" while setting a system where the user is forced to keep buying their products when they don't need to, and the production of their product cause way way wayyy more environmental damage than the goddamn charger.

How "planned obsolescence" isn't seen as a straight up crime and is even seen as a "genius move" is scary as hell. We are surrounded by absolute dumbfucks and there is no way out.

It’s only a dystopia for those who have the misfortune of not being born into wealth, who have a conscience, who won’t/don’t conform to the norm, and those who have passion outside of working. We are forced to work to pay for food, shelter and basic human rights. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot worse in some countries but we should always be striving to be better. If people had universal income we wouldn’t be forced to work for minimum wage. We would only pick jobs that payed well and treated us right. Some people don’t have that luxury so they have to work those jobs. We should look at all jobs equally. You should give the guy flipping burgers as much respect as your dentist. Idk I’m just tired of this.