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A Boring Dystopia
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Theoretically these have a lot of benefits as well, like saving on paper and ink. One barker could last as long as thousands of prices over its lifetime, and mean staff don't have to spend time changing them.
I mean, capitalism gonna capitalise and they'll be used for evil, mostly, but.
I wonder if they're all wired or run off batteries? If the former, then there's a single point of failure, if the latter then ho boy do I have a plan for a zigbee/wifi/whatever device.
Its funny everyone shits the bed that prices might go up when low margin grocers raise prices, but the Fed is out there pumping out 8% more money supply a year, and they further increase that printing if that money simply bids up stocks or home values.
Then they think its grocery stores raising prices 30c that's making billionaires trillionaires, not the annual 8% money supply growth actively debasing peoples wages. When you're measuring things in a rapidly expanding commodity what did people expect would happen?