this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
1241 points (99.4% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

9714 readers
607 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1241
Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
291 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having no actual person guarding your business is a recipe for theft.

From 1977 to 2021, in 2021 inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local government spending on police increased from $47 billion to $135 billion, an increase of 189 percent.

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

gestures broadly at the entire us pharmaceutical industry