• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I mean, you’re the one who bought it currently, just find an equal or dumber person like yourself, bam. Simple. At its core, this is basically how all products are sold.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You’ve completely missed the point about community, eh? And you know people don’t get to pick where they’re born or where their extended family lives, right? So they get born into these places and get locked down for whatever reason and can’t leave. Certainly they can’t all leave in one perfect unit all at the same time.

      Also that’s not how all products are sold, holy shit. Maybe certain drop shippers, sure, but that’s not how it works.

      • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I can tell you the other thing people do as they grow up and that is develop their own views. Growing up in Texas, I didn’t realize anything was wrong or out of the ordinary politically/ideologivally. My parents had their views which initially became my views since that was what was normal in my family and community

        Getting older and more mature, I realized I didn’t agree with my state or parents but I also didn’t have the option to pack up and leave. By the time I was able to sustain myself and build a life, I had already gotten a job, a relationship, and wanted to start building my own family. Doing that meant staying where I was since my in-laws were in the same city and my spouse didn’t want to be away from them.

        Even if on paper to some people it is as easy as just sell your house and leave there are complicating factors. I don’t want my kids to have to deal with hurricanes, power grid failures, intolerance of others, and everything else Texas has to “offer” but at the same time, its not so easy to just bail and start again.

        • rhandyrhoads@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Can’t really escape the power grid failures, but as far as hurricanes and intolerance go, there’s always Austin.

          • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            The problem is that they have really ramped up enshitifying the public school system in the last few years. It was never great but either its gotten a lot worse or I have become much more aware of it in the last few years.

            The power grid stuff is probably the easiest to fix with a solar setup but I don’t know that I want to spend that money in a state I don’t want to stay in longer term.

          • OpenStars@discuss.online
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            3 months ago

            Not really - I am not there but from what I hear it has become overrun with a flood of people flocking towards it seeking the liberal utopia that it sold itself as (and legit was, and most likely still is) but the people there (surrounding it I guess) don’t really want to make way yet still control things like what streets and bike paths are constructed etc.

            So not everyone who wants to move there can really fit - there’s only so much space in it.

      • 474D@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Dude it’s just moving, it’s not that hard. People do it multiple times in their lives. Relax.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      That’s funny and I’m sure you know this but for purposes of discussion -

      Think about a couple common examples:

      I would pay like a thousand dollars not to wash clothes by hand for a few years.

      You see washing machines are like $500-$1000, you buy, you’re happy.

      I’d pay five bucks to have a sweet dark tasting liquid in my mouth and not be as tired.

      Cha-ching, Starbucks makes a sale.

      So even rational consumers often make purchases when their expected utility/satisfaction exceeds the monetary cost.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      At its core, this is basically how all products are sold.

      Imagine being so neck deep in the scam economy that you don’t even remember that products that aren’t scams exist.