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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9695609" data-attributes="member: 7015707">Personally I like to lump Marx together with his supposed opposites. Whether it's an obsession with workers or an obsession with corporate profits it's still an obsession with the supply side of the economy, and the conceit that the supply side of the econony has value independent of the demand side. Personally I believe that the consumer is the be-all and end-all of the economy.EDIT:I dream of a world where everything is so dirt cheap that it doesn't matter whether you have money. It's happened with various things or types of things before. It happened with sugar, it happened with aluminum, those used to be luxury substances and now even poor people can afford to drink large amounts of Coca-Cola* and I think that's beautiful. I want everything to be like that[sup]★★[/sup]*(albeit slightly less so now because of greedflation and shrinkflation)[sup]★★[/sup]And going back to the original point, AI is currently doing that with bespoke images, which previously cost like 50 dollars a pop[sup]★★★[/sup], but from the AI cost mere cents[sup]★★★[/sup]Although potentially as low as ten if you searched around for someone really cheap, but that's still more than I can afford to do regularly on my meager salary. After taxes and deductions I only take home&nbsp; like 350 dollars a week and most of that has to go towards gas, groceries, and other expenses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 9695609, member: 7015707"] Personally I like to lump Marx together with his supposed opposites. Whether it's an obsession with workers or an obsession with corporate profits it's still an obsession with the supply side of the economy, and the conceit that the supply side of the econony has value independent of the demand side. Personally I believe that the consumer is the be-all and end-all of the economy. EDIT: I dream of a world where everything is so dirt cheap that it doesn't matter whether you have money. It's happened with various things or types of things before. It happened with sugar, it happened with aluminum, those used to be luxury substances and now even poor people can afford to drink large amounts of Coca-Cola* and I think that's beautiful. I want everything to be like that[sup]★★[/sup] *(albeit slightly less so now because of greedflation and shrinkflation) [sup]★★[/sup]And going back to the original point, AI is currently doing that with bespoke images, which previously cost like 50 dollars a pop[sup]★★★[/sup], but from the AI cost mere cents [sup]★★★[/sup]Although potentially as low as ten if you searched around for someone really cheap, but that's still more than I can afford to do regularly on my meager salary. After taxes and deductions I only take home like 350 dollars a week and most of that has to go towards gas, groceries, and other expenses. [/QUOTE]

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