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The worlds largest company store?

Gateman_Wen

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Corporate investors purchased 1/3rd of the single family homes sold in Texas last year, and a substantial fraction of those sold country wide.

Corporations are killing mom and pop retail and service businesses in windrows.

They want to sell you cars that require subscriptions for the power windows

When they own everything from your home to your food to your transportation and you have to work for them because they're the only game left what else would you call it but the worlds largest company store?

This is the way the republican version of capitalism is taking us.

Is it where we want to go?

www.wfaa.com

Report: Texas leads the nation with nearly a third of homes sold to investors

The National Association of Realtors found institutional investors bought 52% of homes in Tarrant County and 43% of homes in Dallas County in 2021
www.wfaa.com www.wfaa.com
 
Gateman_Wen said:
Corporate investors purchased 1/3rd of the single family homes sold in Texas last year, and a substantial fraction of those sold country wide.

Corporations are killing mom and pop retail and service businesses in windrows.

They want to sell you cars that require subscriptions for the power windows

When they own everything from your home to your food to your transportation and you have to work for them because they're the only game left what else would you call it but the worlds largest company store?

This is the way the republican version of capitalism is taking us.

Is it where we want to go?

www.wfaa.com

Report: Texas leads the nation with nearly a third of homes sold to investors

The National Association of Realtors found institutional investors bought 52% of homes in Tarrant County and 43% of homes in Dallas County in 2021
www.wfaa.com www.wfaa.com
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It's not just Republicans supporting this.
 
Mycroft said:
It's not just Republicans supporting this.
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Yes it is.

Democrats would have the debt pain anad everybody flush with cash and none of this end time horse****.
 
Power window subscriptions?
 
With respect:

The American way is to try to turn the whole world into a company store.
 
HIP56948 said:
I was wondering about that myself. "I'm sorry sir, your payment for rolling down your driver's window has expired."
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I didn't do the satellite radio. I did replace the navigation chip, but I mostly use my phone. After owning a certain brand of car, I decided to never keep a car past its warranty period again if I ever have enough money to spend on that. However, I don't. I'm currently keeping my car (not of that particular brand) going with routine maintenance.
 
Gateman_Wen said:
Same here. I'm already unhappy that my truck decides to turn itself off at stoplights.
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i think that my parents' car does that. when i was young, if a car did that, you shifted into neutral at the light, revved it, and then kicked it back into gear until you could get it fixed. my guess is that it would take me a minute to get used to a car "dying" on purpose at every light.
 
Helix said:
I didn't do the satellite radio. I did replace the navigation chip, but I mostly use my phone. After owning a certain brand of car, I decided to never keep a car past its warranty period again if I ever have enough money to spend on that. However, I don't. I'm currently keeping my car (not of that particular brand) going with routine maintenance.
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I understand. My best friend is an electrical engineer and says: Since the advent of computer chips, the dealers are making a bloody fortune.
He emailed me this one common replacement.>>> (Average cost from dealer is $220.00 to $350.00)
Hold your breath before you look at the actual cost. :)
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Gateman_Wen said:
Corporate investors purchased 1/3rd of the single family homes sold in Texas last year, and a substantial fraction of those sold country wide.

Corporations are killing mom and pop retail and service businesses in windrows.

They want to sell you cars that require subscriptions for the power windows

When they own everything from your home to your food to your transportation and you have to work for them because they're the only game left what else would you call it but the worlds largest company store?

This is the way the republican version of capitalism is taking us.

Is it where we want to go?

www.wfaa.com

Report: Texas leads the nation with nearly a third of homes sold to investors

The National Association of Realtors found institutional investors bought 52% of homes in Tarrant County and 43% of homes in Dallas County in 2021
www.wfaa.com www.wfaa.com
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I hate these assholes. When they call me about selling my house, I get their phone number and call them back a few hours later, and I tell them I want to buy their car.
 
Helix said:
I didn't do the satellite radio. I did replace the navigation chip, but I mostly use my phone. After owning a certain brand of car, I decided to never keep a car past its warranty period again if I ever have enough money to spend on that. However, I don't. I'm currently keeping my car (not of that particular brand) going with routine maintenance.
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Since so much in cars is computerized and connected these days, it wouldnt surprise me at all if they're already 'disrupting' certain features that arent covered so you have to take it into 'their' mechanics for work and then also doing the same for other features when the warranties are up.

Werent the cell phone companies accused of doing things like that? The latter example?
 
Gateman_Wen said:
Corporate investors purchased 1/3rd of the single family homes sold in Texas last year, and a substantial fraction of those sold country wide.

Corporations are killing mom and pop retail and service businesses in windrows.

They want to sell you cars that require subscriptions for the power windows

When they own everything from your home to your food to your transportation and you have to work for them because they're the only game left what else would you call it but the worlds largest company store?

This is the way the republican version of capitalism is taking us.

Is it where we want to go?

www.wfaa.com

Report: Texas leads the nation with nearly a third of homes sold to investors

The National Association of Realtors found institutional investors bought 52% of homes in Tarrant County and 43% of homes in Dallas County in 2021
www.wfaa.com www.wfaa.com
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ALEC Fascism hard at work ....... Fascism does not allow breaking up corporations ..........
 
Helix said:
i think that my parents' car does that. when i was young, if a car did that, you shifted into neutral at the light, revved it, and then kicked it back into gear until you could get it fixed. my guess is that it would take me a minute to get used to a car "dying" on purpose at every light.
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It drives me nuts.
 
beefheart said:
I hate these assholes. When they call me about selling my house, I get their phone number and call them back a few hours later, and I tell them I want to buy their car.
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Real estate agents occasionally knock on my door. I get mailers, emails, texts and phone calls. It's insane.
 
I have a 2015 Sienna with 41,283 miles = keeping it

I have 1991 Toyota Truck with 114,000 miles......

I have a 2001 Sienna with 214,056 miles .......

HAVE a 2007 Sienna with 189,000 miles which replaced a 1997 Toyota Truck

Keeping all of them

I have a few bicycles with who knows how many miles = keeping them as these vehicles have been filling in
for decades

I have two feet with about 891,000 miles and still power walking = keeping them

New vehicles come with too many bells and whistles that cost wayyyyyyy too much to maintain and/or
fix.......no thanks.
 
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The subject of this thread, and how it is already playing out, is perhaps the best evidence to date that there is such a thing as vulture capitalism.
 
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