ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 3 days agoThis was in upliftingnews but imo, they've been overcharging for years and now they're framing this as a feel good storyslrpnk.netimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down117
arrow-up1499arrow-down1imageThis was in upliftingnews but imo, they've been overcharging for years and now they're framing this as a feel good storyslrpnk.netByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squareripripripriprip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoYeah, steps in the right direction are steps in the right direction. Previous practice outrageous? Yup. New practice awesome? Yup. It’s ok to recognize both. I feel like it’d be a miserable life if you took the negative part of this story and ran with that instead of the more positive side.
minus-squarefrayedpickles@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoI mean… people like you are part of why shitty things stay shitty. If that’s how you want to live you can, but this patronizing sense of superiority you seem to feel is what hurts society.
minus-squareripripripriprip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days ago“How I want to live”, or how I actually live, is by not paying exorbitant prices at events like this (or exorbitant prices elsewhere). I’ll go eat somewhere actually tasty before a game. In other areas I’m fairly frugal, as well. Mobilizing some movement with enough people putting on an embargo to lower prices? Not even gonna try. I do, think the OP is a step in the right direction and I’ll focus on that. I understand everything, in general, is too expensive.
Yeah, steps in the right direction are steps in the right direction.
Previous practice outrageous? Yup. New practice awesome? Yup. It’s ok to recognize both.
I feel like it’d be a miserable life if you took the negative part of this story and ran with that instead of the more positive side.
I mean… people like you are part of why shitty things stay shitty. If that’s how you want to live you can, but this patronizing sense of superiority you seem to feel is what hurts society.
“How I want to live”, or how I actually live, is by not paying exorbitant prices at events like this (or exorbitant prices elsewhere).
I’ll go eat somewhere actually tasty before a game. In other areas I’m fairly frugal, as well.
Mobilizing some movement with enough people putting on an embargo to lower prices? Not even gonna try.
I do, think the OP is a step in the right direction and I’ll focus on that. I understand everything, in general, is too expensive.