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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:why are you pitting him against other workers millionaires are my friend. i send jeff bezos a pay check for mailing me items. i love the rich, without whom we will never have socialism.
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Dec 10, 2023 23:57
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millionaires are proletariats and joe Biden is the last communist.
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Dec 10, 2023 23:58
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Xaris posted:jesus christ, americans ftl. tho i can sympathize attendance at american symphonies and opera houses has not bounced back from the pandemic at all and you can definitely get good tickets for $50 or less. maybe give that a shot
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Dec 11, 2023 00:00
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Zodium posted:my daughter and wives LMFAO
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Dec 11, 2023 00:01
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the upside to polygamy: the harem of babes the downside: the harem of babes
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Dec 11, 2023 00:01
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Xaris posted:jesus christ, americans ftl. tho i can sympathize ticketmaster really needs to go away arena/stadium food prices have always been terrible, all the increase is in the ticket prices and bullshit tacked-on fees
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Dec 11, 2023 00:08
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webcams for christ posted:attendance at american symphonies and opera houses has not bounced back from the pandemic at all and you can definitely get good tickets for $50 or less. maybe give that a shot a half-season (4 show) ticket for the ballet here is $200 and that's for not quite the best seats but the ones right after that it's a good ballet company, too e: just dont try to go to The One Ballet Everyone Goes To, the Nutcracker (the new one here sucks anyway, rip the one with the unique choreography and art design by the Where The Wild Things Are guy), the prices for that are loving lunatic
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Dec 11, 2023 00:11
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I checked out the tix to the beyonce movie thinking it'd be a fun field trip for the old girls but all the tix--early show, senior price, kids price--were $22.  Are all movie prices that high now?Last nite when I was thinking about going to the noon show today the seating chart showed that a total of 8 tickets had been sold for the entire theater. 
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Dec 11, 2023 00:15
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I saw West Side Story at the Lyric Opera House a few months ago & the tix were $50 for first balcony. I'm not paying almost half of that to see a drat movie.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:17
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Metropolitan Opera rush tickets are $25
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Dec 11, 2023 00:17
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the Met is having quite an attendance crisis
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Dec 11, 2023 00:22
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Minera posted:millionaires are my friend. i send jeff bezos a pay check for mailing me items. i love the rich, without whom we will never have socialism. your class is determined by your relationship to capital not whether you're a millionaire or not, hth
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Dec 11, 2023 00:22
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the Met is having quite an attendance crisis live theatre industry is in catastrophic freefall
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Dec 11, 2023 00:23
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Willa Rogers posted:I checked out the tix to the beyonce movie thinking it'd be a fun field trip for the old girls but all the tix--early show, senior price, kids price--were $22. I just checked the local dead mall theater and it's $11.50 for Napoleon at 1pm on a monday or $14.25 for 8pm, indie theater is $10 matinee $11 evening the mall lets you pick your seats and there's no more than 5 sold for any of the showings tomorrow
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Dec 11, 2023 00:23
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the Met is having quite an attendance crisis they are, but their rush tickets have always been dirt cheap because they are subsidized by a specific endowment / donors
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Dec 11, 2023 00:24
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Smythe posted:live theatre industry is in catastrophic freefall wake me up if i can see live theater for under 25 pp
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Dec 11, 2023 00:26
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10 years ago it was the norm to be 80/20 earned income/contributed. now its inverted. not good
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Dec 11, 2023 00:26
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Xaris posted:used to go to Berkeley Rep sometimes cuz we could get under 35 tickets for half off. now they're like $75-105 a pop for b/c orc seats, and then with x2 tix, is too expensive for me (a poor renter) u gonna be sleeping a long time
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Dec 11, 2023 00:27
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it was always funny going to the rep though because like the whole audience is a sea of shining silver hair as far as the eye can see, reflecting light like cheap christmas tinsel, and we'd be the only ones with color to our hair (except some 6 year old grandkids) i imagine they all died during covid or something which is why attendence is free-falling
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Dec 11, 2023 00:28
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there are 19th century newspaper columns catastrophizing about how classical music is one generation away from dying out, I don't know what the vibes were like then but they still don't feel great today
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Dec 11, 2023 00:32
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Smythe posted:u gonna be sleeping a long time
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Dec 11, 2023 00:33
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should just do what the soviets did where theater attendence was compulsory but free
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Dec 11, 2023 00:33
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Yah, the lyric audience looked like an aarp convention for both WSS and Carmen.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:34
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Xaris posted:jesus christ, americans ftl. tho i can sympathize I always enjoy the stories of americans complaining about the price of treats, but never considering foregoing the treats.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:39
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:your class is determined by your relationship to capital not whether you're a millionaire or not, hth yes, and if you have 50 million dollars that puts you out of the working class
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Dec 11, 2023 00:50
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Minera posted:yes, and if you have 50 million dollars that puts you out of the working class no that's not how it works maybe you should read the marxism thread
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Dec 11, 2023 01:01
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:no that's not how it works maybe you should read the marxism thread whats your cut off for soaking up wages from workers and having money to invest that morphs you from being a proletariat to bourgeois is jeff bezos a proletariat for getting a pay check from amazon
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Dec 11, 2023 01:03
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Minera posted:whats your cut off for soaking up wages from workers and having money to invest that morphs you from being a proletariat to bourgeois do you think that's jeff bezos' entire relationship with capital?
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Dec 11, 2023 01:05
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the classical music people should liven up their shows with actors, singing and comedy
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Dec 11, 2023 01:07
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someone please help me understand the difference between Seabiscuit and CEO
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Dec 11, 2023 01:08
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Danny LaFever posted:I always enjoy the stories of americans complaining about the price of treats, but never considering foregoing the treats. i don't believe in individual action or 'boycotting', but i've definitely adjusted my spending habits substantially the past several years were i'm defacto boycotting almost all big brand corporate junk because it's too expensive and i got no $$ -- and i doubt i'm the only one
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Dec 11, 2023 01:08
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all you people complaining about ticket prices going up forget about all of the improvements and innovations that have happened over that same period, such as, uh... well at least employees are getting paid more now oh, they aren't? huh. well whatever from now on we're playing ads every ten minutes during movies whether you like it or not. gently caress you (i haven't been at a movie theater in a decade so maybe that's already a thing)
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Dec 11, 2023 01:08
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pretty sure 50 million dollars would easily generate enough money to sustain yourself without selling your labor power, but you could also get 50 million gas station coffees, and then it wouldn't
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Dec 11, 2023 01:11
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webcams for christ posted:Metropolitan Opera rush tickets are $25 I sometimes buy a month of the met online and have a in home date night watching some good opera.
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Dec 11, 2023 01:46
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Willa Rogers posted:Love the radio silence after the amazon & ups workers weighed in on how quiet it is at their workplaces this holiday season. this is the thing this is always the thing about people who are so proudly right in their head despite being wrong; eventually, after they’ve expended all their energy on calling others wrong and gaslighting everyone who can clearly see reality, their wrongness becomes self-evident, and then THEY SHUT THE gently caress UP. they never do a tour of forgiveness, or repentance, or even admit to acknowledgement, let along say, “I was wrong.” they just shut the gently caress up and I despise them for it.
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Dec 11, 2023 01:52
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spacetoaster posted:It's free real estate. “The loss of the Curtis family home, which they had lived in since World War II represented further heartbreak for Mr Curtis after his son and daughter died at tragically young ages. Both he and his mother are still fondly remembered on the suburban street where their former home is located. One neighbour said: 'This house has a very troubled past because there is no way Best should have got his hands on it for free. A lot of people around here are still very angry that he was allowed to get away with it and that the law backed him.”  oh no this poor destitute pensioner just had an extra house sitting empty for a decade and someone moved in, how tragic
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Dec 11, 2023 01:54
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I personally find it amusing, big business is waiting until the election to get going to destroy the economy!
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Dec 11, 2023 01:54
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:he is a proletariat, there's no other way to describe his relationship with capital sure there is, does his industry produce value or does it recirculate already produced value?
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Dec 11, 2023 01:55
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Xaris posted:i don't believe in individual action or 'boycotting' you don’t have to believe, you just don’t give these motherfuckers any of your money at all because it feels good; not buying some loving $6.99 pack of chips ahoy feels way better than paying $7 for stale cookies and opening the pack to find it’s already half empty
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Danny LaFever posted:I always enjoy the stories of americans complaining about the price of treats, but never considering foregoing the treats. consumption is american culture not even trying to be funny, most people are not in a position where "stop buying things" is like an at all reasonable option even though it's right there and they can do it at any time the taylor swift post barely registered as a thing with me because taking out a new credit card for a big purchase is a completely "normal" thing to do. I occasionally work with a guy who proudly talks about paying for all his family's vacations that way.
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