“Sent from my mother’s basement”

esr has always been an asshole

Gulag for sure.

I mean the monsters are telling you they are monsters. It’s people’s fault for taking it lying down.

This feels like and I know someone mentioned this already but I have to say it… like they have never heard of rationing before, and they need to invent a whole new less effecent system to ration that both bennifits the rich more AND allows the rich to get richer

So apparently the only way you can filter out these people who don’t “give enough fucks” about petrol is by raising prices. Otherwise no-fuck-giving people will endure an hour long line just to be able to buy this petrol they don’t really need.

So what I love here is that they do not seem to understand is by using money as a mesure of anything, you have to start with the assumption that some people naturaly have WAY MORE of it than others

also in the US the car is a nessesity WTF are you talking about poor people do not have cars

Jfc. You could do this OR, hear me out, crazy idea, directly ration the gas instead of doing some roundabout free market fuckery.

Western mythology centers the petty bourgeois male as the universal human experience. Only in this fantasy can ideas like this have merit: all needs are effectively met, there’s a surplus of resources, and people merely have to choose which luxuries are more valuable to them.

Of course the experience of 95% of people, the proletarians and other underclasses, is invisible. They’re the cogs of the petty bourgeois pleasure machine, hidden by capitalist mythology.

Once in a while reality breaks through the illusion long enough for one of the spoiled children to get a glimpse at the underlying mechanisms. But they have no basis to understand what they’re seeing.

Price-gouge their eyeballs out

these people should be skinned and turned into novelty hats

ah yes, no possible way to limit how much someone can buy of a scarce good in an emergency. only the price.

this is why mother made us pay for cookies, because there was simply no other way to divide them fairly.

I’m going to make myself popular by suggesting we kill people who price-gouge during a hurricane, as well as those who defend them.

If you are a maoist, you can tune out because you already know what I’m going to say. If you’re not, kindly face the wall.

The mental gymnastics some people will do to justify sociopathy. Money only means anything because of organized force that says it does. Markets have no power without that. These pontificating purveyors of psychopathy would have their positions punctured in an instant without police to back up their pricing.

Cool, I’ll go explain to the Plains tribes that their relatives needed to starve because all of their bison would have run out if anybody could get them for free.

They’ll understand.