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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The real reason nobody goes to malls is that wages have been stagnant for decades, and nobody wants to finance consumption through credit any more. Capitalism is hollowing out its own consumer base, meaning more and more of our energies are being directed towards servicing the desires of the capitalists who stole our wages to begin with. If malls survive it'll be because they're renting out space to churches or commercial interests.


Well without income or welfare, I guess you just die.

could it not just be that people don't like going to the mall anymore

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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

etalian posted:

Stuff like Amazon prime pretty much destroyed the concept

yeah but that's a different explanation than "malls are dying because everyone is poor"

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

The Brown Menace posted:

guess what else was invented by an austrian jew and turned into a grotesque american concept

psychotherapy?

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

so do you think the government should be subsidizing malls as a jobs program or what

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

tadashi posted:

My main issues with these is they just add to gentrification

"Building a thing" is not gentrification, it depends on where it's built

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