• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Literally addressed this in my original comment. The key is not purchasing their products, which will be enabled by us having more time to do our own stuff. But obviously, it won’t apply to things we can’t replace or reduce the consumption of (gains, electricity, water)

    But yeah, if Americans (for example) want to keep eating terrible, unhealthy food at exuberant expense from McDonald’s because they can’t be bothered to figure French fries out themselves, why wouldn’t McDonald’s raise their prices? Haha

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      6 months ago

      which will be enabled by us having more time to do our own stuff

      You may be underestimating the laziness of the average consumer. I don’t think people are going to use 1 extra day a week to start refining their own gas, making their own clothes or raising their own cattle.

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        This is a bad faith response. Of course nobody is going to refine their own gas, since it takes a multi-billion dollar refinery to refine gas. People can definitely do the two things I specifically mentioned, as well as a myriad of other things that I did not mention, which will take load off of the economy, and price gouging power away from the specific industries I mentioned.

        And if not, then they can keep paying for overpriced, unhealthy food that they will continue to be price gouged on (which I also already said).