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When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is what I feel is the core problem of out-of-bounds capitalism today. 50-80 years ago there were fabulously wealthy people as well, but they were taxed out the wazoo and were still fabulously wealthy. And even though every corporation's goal is, and always has been, to make profit, it feels as if it's gone from "profit" to "maximum possible profit at ALL costs, including the damnation of life on the planet".

We have plenty of examples of hypercapitalism destroying us in fiction (cyberpunk etc.) but our current reality is really really close to that hellscape. In some ways it's actually worse because of the insidiousness and banality of the evil that lords over us daily.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Sorry im not from the US… what is a “wazoo”?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It's written as "up the wazoo" or "out the wazoo." "Wazoo" in this context means "ass" and the meaning as a whole is "in large amounts."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

It's just a figure of speech to denote "completely", or "very much".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Where a kazoo goes.