Post #2469135
2026-05-12 21:08 UTC
Replies (5)
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@iocase@lemmy.zip 2026-05-12 21:33
Honestly it’s a result of being the world’s reserve currency. At one point Brazil was the capital of rubber, and like 2 towns in Brazil made all of the latex the world used. They used to ship their clothing to Europe to be washed. Then 900 rubber tree seeds were smuggled out and it crashed their monopoly, devastating those towns. Much the same has happened to the US when you can deindustrialize and print without consequences. The same happened to Spain with their silver mines in the age of sail. Silver flowed through Spain, but didn’t stay there… It was cheaper to buy foreign goods in Spanish silver than to pay a Spaniard to do it. When the silver ran out it all crumbled… Trump killed the petrodollar and it’s going to turn the US into an inward looking regional power…
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@stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-12 21:34
Games are also gambling in the sense that trying to make money from one is a huge gamble
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@ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2026-05-12 22:09
If the Germans are to be believed, things are a little depressing.
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@jtrek@startrek.website 2026-05-12 22:42
Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would *just* behave slightly differently. If people would *just* stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn't be a problem. it's not asking a lot. It's not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it! But that's not how people work. We barely function at all.
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@ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2026-05-14 10:33
After a long day of having my soul sucked out of me by corporate America, I gamble that picking up a controller may spark a memory of my childhood, and I may finally feel something.