• ekZepp@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Blaming. If you sell freshly printed paper books and the price of paper rise up overnight. Is your fault for the rising of the prices?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Depends…does the bookmaker have a superyacht? Are they a billionaire? Could they take less profit because they are not a public company? Could they raise the price by less and still be profitable?

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 month ago

        Well yes of course they could but why should they? I also think it’s hilarious that people acknowledge that we live in a capitalist society, and then get upset when the realities of that society hit them.

        If you want to go seize the means of production I won’t stop you, but otherwise stop whining about increasing production costs been passed on to the user.

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          1 month ago

          Im not whining, the commented acted like it was out of their hands when it isnt. Simple as that.

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        1 month ago

        Hmmm, my guess is that Valve is trying to keep onto their funds rather than sell at loss because they’re afraid of the lawsuits levied by other corpos, which are being weaponized against them.

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      1 month ago

      I mean they were out of stock for weeks, presumably waiting on manufacturing new devices, which are now more expensive than when they were first released, it’s not like they were sitting on a ton in a warehouse or something.