• @[email protected]
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        202 months ago

        the title references something else than the image

        some places allow you to pay for stuff over a period of time, so you can actually be financing something like a pizza

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          Credit card installments exist all over the world. Those are not loans

          Is that what’s being displayed here, a pizza paid by credit card installments?

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            What is displayed here is a price disparity for the same item. The top bar of the meme identifies this as a side effect of capitalism. The title is talking about insane financing schemes which are also perceived as a side effect of capitalism. That is how they are related, and I’m pretty sure OP is making a joke with the 69% reference. The whole mood says “capitalism bad”.

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              So, some things are more expensive than others? That’s an insane financing scheme for you? And that’s a meme?

              My god, this is a whole nother level of dementia, even for Lemmy

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                92 months ago

                Ah, yes, railing against the commenters who are kindly going out of the way to explain something for you instead of OP who posted and wrote the thing. That’s the only dementia I’m seeing right now.

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                72 months ago

                I think you misunderstood me. A price disparity for the same item and insane financing schemes are both byproducts of capitalism, not byproducts of each other.

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                12 months ago

                The point is that the Kid’s Hot Chocolate and the Small Hot Chocolate are literally the same item, but the “Small” is a dollar more

                It’s not a larger amount, it’s literally the same amount and the app even tells you this

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                12 months ago

                If you like to pay more for the exact same amount and quality of goods, then I believe I have a bridge to sell you.

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                12 months ago

                In the case of the meme, the item which is more expensive is the same item marketed differently. As in, exactly the same item. The insane financing scheme is referencing a popular pizza chains “pay it in 4” for a pizza order, which is both similarly comical and malicious. Both things prey on time-poor, tech-illiterate, or uneducated users to increase profit margins without needing to improve or adjust the service or goods being provided.

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            22 months ago

            thats what the title is referring to. as in, not what is in the image itself. the image itself is showing the same product for the same size yet the “kids” version is almost a dollar cheaper than what everybody else would usually get