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Cake day: July 1st, 2025

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  • I think marketplace keeps it alive. That and inertia, which always exists at baseline wherever you go.

    Offer Up started out ok, then got worse over the last 5 years instead of improving. It bought out the 3rd alternative for online thrifting/garage sales/giveaways, became clunkier, made location searches awful to invoke (you need to look up an exact zip code instead of just naming a town or moving a circle around on a map), replaced 1/4 of the posts with retail ads, and sprinkled more ads over the top. It’s absurd.

    Whoever launches a solid, user friendly free app into this used market thrift space has a pretty good shot of undermining the hell out of what’s left of meta.






  • The problem is the way this is stated. “Their wealth” is a misnomer. Is some of it their wealth? Of course. But the Waltons as one example, don’t amass $432 billion without STEALING from their employees. Stealing can be in the form of non-liveable wages such that SNAP benefits are required, not paying skilled labor commensurate to that skill, skimping on health care benefits, not offering yearly bonuses to labor staff when profits rise, etc. Bezos is another example, stealing wages to build a penis rocket instead of allowing his staff a solid living. Lying to unions about internal wealth distribution availability. Failure to make true cost of living increases AND merit raises for increased xp each year.

    All of that is stealing.

    Their wealth? Not all of it.