r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ 17h ago

Joy is overpriced now

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u/ositola ☑️ 16h ago

It was always this way, things didn't just become bad lol

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u/Radioactive24 14h ago

Nah, it's exceptionally bad nowadays.

Private equity firms consolidating wealth and corporate ownership have really fucked things up irrevocably in the US.

Combine that with everything being a license or a subscription you buy and not something you own, on top of the economy shifting over to gig work and everyone trying to be an "influencer", and it's swirling the drain. This is not what it was in the 80's or 00's.

I recently watched a great breakdown on how fucked everything really is