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Re:U.S. retailers plan to stop paying rent to offset virus c... by cmurf on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:38PM (#22680740)
The metric needs to be, equally miserable. The innovation needed, is a misery metric. Once most everyone is equally pissed, that's the solution - doesn't matter how bizarre or ideological is seems.

But of course, the track record suggests the actual solution we get will look more like neo-feudalism.

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Re:U.S. retailers plan to stop paying rent to offset virus c... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:45AM (#22683379)
That's a bit romantic don't you think? If society devolves enough to make me completely and utterly miserable, opposed to my baseline misery, then there'll probably be mushroom clouds on the horizons. Whereas some of my friends and neighbors are having panic attacks because they can't go to aruba, or screaming matches with grocery clerks, etc.
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