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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But I was told that capitalism checks itself using something called ā€œmarket forcesā€.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Turns out "market forces" was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.

Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.

[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hey now, those ā€œmarket forcesā€ are actually the work of the wonderful ā€˜Invisible Hand’! Which is of course the work of God and is definitely not being manipulated by all those billionaires behind the curtain over there…

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine a war against an enemy with known lead poisoning.

That would probably be an easy win

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

They poisoned themselves with shit from pet stores and farm supplies. They sent death threats to the guy who told them not to inject bleach.
Individually, they may be easy to beat, but as a group they are worse than a zombie apocalypse