Examples that come to mind:

  • saying your favorite video game is Disco Elysium
  • saying your favorite TV show is Star Trek DS9

The two rules are that:

  1. It has to be to do with a category that is socially acceptable to talk about with most people in a casual setting. So no politics or philosophy.
  2. Nothing too on the nose, ex, no "I love the music of the Red Army Choir" or something.
  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    Casually mentioning that profit comes from paying workers less than the value they create.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      You can only cut down on property/machine/ingredient costs so much, but labor costs, now that's where you can keep cutting forever.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      I’ve tried to explain to people - some of which work in retail or food distribution - that the reason why their employers/stores would rather waste food than give it out for free is not because they’re afraid of litigation, but because it would drive down the prices if everyone was fed. And in the US, we waste enough food to feed entire countries several times over, so it’s not like there’s real scarcity here.

      They seem to understand artificial scarcity when it comes to iPhones and shoes. But when it comes to essential goods, it’s like an alien concept to them.