[renewiltord]

It happens all the time, actually. It's what happened to Gamestop. A few people really wanted the stock and the price just shot up. The worst was the Reddit IPO. The price just kept going up and the Reddit team sold stock at high prices instead of serving the community. It's just greed.

People should not be allowed to sell except at the government-mandated price. Of course, a few million may starve, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make in order to serve the community.

Hopefully, we can make this Great Leap Forward in consumer rights, and prevent Late Stage Capitalism from having a Mask-Off Moment in AI slop enshittification. If you disagree, I'm begging you to read a book. Tell me you're enabling corporate interests to cause trauma without telling me you're enabling corporate interests to cause trauma.

[stingraycharles]

Highly dependent upon circumstances, the government should really only regulate prices on a few things and that’s it (ie essential needs such as healthcare and energy, which is the case where I’m from).

Having government mandated prices for everything is a very silly approach.

[mike_hearn]

The post you're replying to was being sarcastic.

[stingraycharles]

With the current state of the internet and the absolute nonsense I’ve seen people write online I didn’t catch that, so I apologize for not catching that.

[renewiltord]

I think your earnest response was actually a good way to engage.

[renewiltord]

Another essential need is video games and Internet, without which most people cannot survive. Today's people also need access to the AI companion Ani part of the Grok 4 character suite built by x.ai. But we can solve the latter problem by just providing everyone with a $100k/year budget to spend on companionship. Mental health is health. Other platitudes available on demand. If you like, I can also use LLM to say such platitudes in the drawn out style of OP comment so that everyone can gather around and participate in game of Woe The Capitalist. Great enjoyment.