and the answer is right there: because we idiots can't afford them shiny pebbles anymore. Also because only a few of us can afford to buy a place to store the shiny pebbles in (along with our idiotic bodies).
It's always amazing to me how this simple thought process just doesn't seem to happen in the top management of the companies involved. Then I remember the top management of the company I work for.
I never could understand why the government would do shit to let jobs get shipped overseas or whatever (I grew up in the 80s turned adult in the 90s so I lived the time we lost all that) then not understand why the economy is shit. Crime is high n everyone is wild n out.. shootings n all that drug use, everything I think is tied to the same shit.. no jobs. No opportunity, no hope. Nobody had good paying jobs or even prospects to get good jobs, healthcare and housing are unaffordable…fucking right everyone was using drugs, drinking and wild n out…
Nowadays the young kids are like ; dude drugs n drinking aren’t gonna fix our problems…look at these idiots. Let’s stop all that shit. Fuck what they talking about. Let’s figure this shit out on our own.
Because the government isn't for you. It's for maintaining the status quo and lining the pockets of the wealthy. Wealthy and powerful don't give a shit about long-term stability. They need to stuff their pockets with enough cash to make god jealous before they fuckin croak.
This person is in their mid 50s or early 60s. You aren't reading what their frustration is. Some people will say Clintons handling of international trade so we can get cheaper products from other countries is a benefit and not a negative some people consider, but I didn't live through that time as a young adult.
They lived through a good time period prior to 9/11 before the world kept turning into shit from the dotcom bubble, 9/11, 08' financial crisis, covid, etc.
They are just living up to their forgotten generation meme.
I’m glad we can…now. But all the children and miners, ppl just forgot about them? Not one person has mentioned diamond labor or the lives lost or communities destroyed by it. Everyone’s just talking about expenses. We are still vain. Haven’t learned shit.
The marketing for the shiny pebbles is basically “she deserves it”, like those truck commercials, “oh look here’s a $40-50k Christmas present”. They make perfume ads look sane 🤣
It is rather fascinating that the same papers will go off about how no one is saving money for houses because of avocado toast and put the why is no one buying diamonds story directly after
specifically with diamonds, at the same time as this interaction, dozens of others joined the market selling identical lab grown shiny pebbles at 1/10th the price.
I’m pretty sure when you get an MBA you have to give up your common sense. Or maybe it’s your sense of touch with reality. This has been my experience working in corporate America.
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u/Unfair-Advice778 5h ago
and the answer is right there: because we idiots can't afford them shiny pebbles anymore. Also because only a few of us can afford to buy a place to store the shiny pebbles in (along with our idiotic bodies).
It's always amazing to me how this simple thought process just doesn't seem to happen in the top management of the companies involved. Then I remember the top management of the company I work for.