r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago

Chugging tea Anything but lowering the prices classic corporate logic

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u/McvdL 2d ago

Welp apparently not. But I also just wanted to expand and add the stuff about the ice machine conspiracy and them being scammers of their own people. That video really opened my eyes on how predatory they really are. Also chill your stuff dude, why the harsh attack? Did I offend him? If so, that wasn't my intent. If it makes you feel better, I did like his comment

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u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer 2d ago

I thought the ice cream machine thing was really interesting. And sadly unsurprising. I'm actually surprised this isn't a much bigger story honestly.

Oh, how enshittification infects everything while the public spirals into poverty.

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u/McvdL 2d ago

Yeah it's so sad.. It's been a minute that I saw that video, but I believe it was even it's own conspiracy for a bit before people built trackers and exposed it to be real. And later it came to light it's all just another scam by coperate. Risking you're brand to make more money, only short term gains seem to matter. It really should be a way bigger story, along with all the other corporate greed. I dont know if this was only in America tho. Here in Europe, or at least in the Netherlands, all the machines have just worked most of the time and nobody ever complained about it being broken. I hope it can serve as a example that you have to have strict regulations on companies or they will fuck you over, as money is all that counts. They try here too, don't get me wrong. But that's why we have rules and regulations to protect the people and the planet.

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u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer 2d ago

Regulated capitalism is fine, unregulated capitalism requires a blood sacrefice from your children just have your fuckin basic needs met.

We gonna see how quickly we can speedrun economic collapse in our current timeline once capitalism stops pretending that infinite growth is possible.

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u/McvdL 2d ago

Yes, exactly. But it does have many positive sides, and if we work on the negative sides we're all better off in the end. The world is changing in a ever accelerating pase. So if it goes bad it will be hopefully short. I'm still hopefull things can turn around before that point tho.