Why would you want to see the death of democracy. I live in a democracy and I do my best to do my part and to be reasonable. The people are made up of persons and you have the ability to speak your mind and vote how you see fit.
Also respect all people even if you disagree with them or dislike them
Assuming the finance a pizza bit is true, it's a sign that the American economy is on the brink of a deflationary spiral. Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts, and then the capital to create more debt will dry up, resulting in the amount of money in the economy drying up as well. Businesses will be forced to lower prices and scale back operations, which will result in rising unemployment. Which in turn will result in even less money in the economy, perpetuating the circle.
It's not unlike the economies of ancient Mesopotamia. A farmer who wanted beer would write a promissory note for a few bushels of barley in some clay and give it to the brewer. The brewer could then either wait to collect it at harvest, or trade that note with someone else for something they needed. This would be passed around until it ended up in the hands of people with real wealth, and if the farmer couldn't pay the wealthy person would take whatever they wanted.
It's thought that this is why in many near Eastern societies women are expected to dress plainly, as they wouldn't be chosen when the rich asshole showed up to collect on his debt. One way some societies solved this problem without violence or slavery was to eliminate all debts every several years.
This is from David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" and I highly recommend it.
It's not even like they are struggling financially
These big companies just want more to the point of sinking there business because they got a fraction less profit that year
I'd be very curious to see how many people actually use this option and for what price. I could see a family living paycheck to paycheck using this for a child's birthday party. (Don't misinterpret that statement as giddiness.)
at this point an economic crash seems like the only possible future, but I'm not sure if it would be good for your average person or if the top 1% would take advantage of it to get even richer
Most of the world is already in an economic recession in the sense that median purchasing power of is dropping fast.
However economist are great at fudging the numbers to show "gdp growth". It true, absolute gdp is rising but it doesn't mean anything if it's evenly distributed.
It's about assets. In an economic crash, the 1% buys up the assets for pennies on the dollar, generally receiving an enormous government bailout in the process.
Housing/real estate is the most obvious example of this over the past fifteen years or so.
Pay over six weeks with what fucking money?
Seems like everyone has a fucking "job" to waste my time interviewing for, but no one has a fucking "job" that pays me or even lets me participate in society for free.
Desperately hoping this is sarcasm, but in case it isn't, I have applied for over 350 jobs in my field and gotten zero offers. I'm trying like hell to get to work but employers will not take me. If it were that simple, I'd be working.
To clarify, by
but no one has a fucking "job" that ... even lets me participate in society for free
I really meant that I can't even find unpaid internships, training programs, or any way to participate in my field unless I literally start from scratch by myself.
To be fair, short of rapid depressurization or suicide, dying that way is hard to do in space. Modern spacecraft have relatively safe environments; no Trek style plasma conduits or transporters to screw that up. The impacts that radiation and zero-g have on the human body are also factored into the mission way in advance. Even crew homicide is carefully mitigated with psych evals and tests, prior to launch.
Instead you have a slew of less fun alternatives. Limited food/water/O2, heating, tumbling into the void on a spacewalk, navigation error, all set up slow and agonizing ways to go. Especially that last one - you could wind up knowing that you're going to die a whole month ahead of time, with nothing to do but wait.
Oh man, and it's from Uber. So not only do they want you to pay for the pizza, and interest, they want you to pay up to 100% more for delivery. They used to deliver these things for free, in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza was free too. The enshitification continues!
Okay this is disgusting. It's only gonna make people's money problems worse. If you can't pay for a domino's pizza out of the pocket, maybe it's a better idea to go for something cheaper like a freezer pizza from the supermarket. Most people picking this option will be making a mistake.