• GinAndJuche [comrade/them]
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    752 years ago

    Did you read the basket of goods they use? It includes a tv ffs. Apparently tv prices matter to people who have to choose which meal they skip.

    The wall is too kind for these stains upon humanity

    • I for one am purchasing a new TV each month. It’s a staple for our household. We go out and it’s like a nice little tradition we’ve established. Then we put it in the living room, hold hands, and skip around it chanting while we burn the old one at its feet so it knows to behave.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      162 years ago

      Tv did take a huge dip in price (completely unrelated to the fact the majority of people were watching content on their phones or computer screens I’m sure) so literally every article uses them, the one thing that’s decreased in price, as a comparison point to show stuff isn’t getting more expensive.

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        152 years ago

        The main reason TVs have dropped in price is because under surveillance capitalism the TV watches you. On a lot of models more money is made from all of the spyware and adtech that comes with TV than from the sale of the TV itself.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          Interactive TV sets will be watching us, just as we watch them. They will also report back to the beast at computer headquarters. Our telephone conversations will be automatically wire tapped and transcripted by the National Security Agency

          Killah Priest “information”, from Heavy Mental, 1998

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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          42 years ago

          🎶 You think you’ve private lives Think nothing of the kind

          There is no true escape I’m watching all the time 🎶