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by BestGuess 964 days ago
Yeah you see that a lot when all of a sudden every single one in the US market yanks out every affordable option all at the same time or "mysteriously" makes them impossible to buy but somehow that isn't collusion or anything. Then these same lying fuckers in suits declare americans "don't want" those options they conspired to make as difficult as possible to get in the first place.

You saw the same thing with microcars or anything especially affordable the past couple years. They only want to sell giant gas guzzling insanely expensive XXL crap and are doing their best to keep affordable shit off the market meanwhile it all sells just fine everywhere else. It's obvious how rigged the whole thing is same with real estate and "automatic price adjustments" that coincidentally biases things in favor of landlords, same for other software that biases things in favor of other colluding fucks like the auto industry so they merely "coincidentally" conspire. It's all total bullshit.

What pisses me off is the fact people somehow think an industry agreeing to use algorithms that only go in their favor and most of all if they all use those algorithms together doesn't count as collusion.

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>They only want to sell giant gas guzzling insanely expensive XXL crap

AI generated Chevy Goliath Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7Tq6sRxE4

That's too real and gosh dang horrifyin
OK.

Chances are if you own a pickup truck you're not using it to drive to the grocer's mart to pick up granny snacks for the senior's home.

You work for a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8P5vGcf-NU

mostly because billionaires live in their own universe and that universe is self selecting against progress.