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Re:Programming Still Sucks by nickpp on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:42AM (#48046575)
> This is ignoring the people who capture the rent.

So my grandma shouldn't have been be deliriously happy with the new washing machine that saved her hands from bleeding weekly because the evil capitalist laundromat owners charged a few quarters per load?!

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Re:Programming Still Sucks by kiba on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:03AM (#48049618)
It's not really the laundromat capitalist, but the landowner the capitalist paying rent to.
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Re:Programming Still Sucks by nickpp on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:03AM (#48059658)
It still doesn't bother me as a consumer in the slightest. On the contrary, I am happy that laundromat exists in the first place.
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