• walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    It sounds like you’re blaming the consumer. As if we could avoid the current cost of living crisis if we just buckled down our spending.

    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      I’m not blaming anyone but the corporations here. My post was simply an observation of what’s happened, but for some reason people are taking it wrong I think.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        My post was simply an observation of what’s happened

        Using words to follow reality is a threat to many people’s way of thinking because they want their philosophy to remain unchanged, and new information has the possibility of changing their philosophy.

        This is why there is often a visceral rejection of someone who just tells the truth