▲ 1368 ▼ Device hoarding is costing the economy. (lemmy.world) submitted 9 months ago by K1nsey6@lemmy.world [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world 244 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) the poorest are cutting back their expenses those people have nothing else left to cut back on. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago I straight up laughed when people started talking about "skipping Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals" to "stick it to the Oligarchs," just like... must be nice to actually have enough disposable income to have been thinking about making leisure purchases during this. Some of us are broke enough that we've been putting off replacing things we need that are barely functional because we can't really afford it and sales like these are the only time we can. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago I straight up laughed when people started talking about "skipping Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals" to "stick it to the Oligarchs," just like... must be nice to actually have enough disposable income to have been thinking about making leisure purchases during this. Some of us are broke enough that we've been putting off replacing things we need that are barely functional because we can't really afford it and sales like these are the only time we can. permalink fedilink source parent
