Well that’s a great way to have a customer come exactly once to your place and order something small and cheap and then never return out of bad memories and embarrassment. It’s also a great way to make a name as “that restaurant where you’ll get ghosted” for yourself. For real, either the place would get a bad rep as a cursed place, or (more likely) they lose valuable potential customers because they will never go back to a place where they have been stood up.
Honestly, if a place did that to me, arson would be in their future…
I’d march on in there, and put my arse on everything I could, until everyone knew they were that restaurant where that guy put his arson everything.
You’d almost be saying the restaurant is haunted with the amount of ghosting that happens.
Picturing an uber “gig economy” job where you’re paid to engage on carrying apps, meet at the restaurant and sneak out the bathroom for this same effect on the remaining person. 24 hours later they are then prompted by notification to review and tip.
That’s called fraud, and it violates consent, and it’s therefore not a free market activity, which makes it more of a breakdown of capitalism than the thing itself.
I do believe we have different definitions of capitalism
From wikipedia:
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, self-interest, economic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, profit motive, meritocracy, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage laborand the production of commodities.
(emphasis mine)
What definition are you using?
The capitalist mode of production is characterized by private ownership of the means of production, extraction of surplus value by the owning class for the purpose of capital accumulation, wage-based labour and—at least as far as commodities are concerned—being market-based.
Hey its called catfishing and for some of us it’s the only way we can get a date…
Signed - definitely not a restaurant totally super hunky dream guy
Hey super hunky dream guy! You said we should meet for lunch, what was that restaurant you mentioned?
When my kids were young they called McDonald’s “Dick Donald’s”.
Just wanted to randomly point that out.
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I mean, capitalism seeks monopolies, so capitalism inherently undermines itself
Capitalism doesn’t qualify as free market activity then. Capitalism inherently involves treating persons as things. In the firm, the workers are jointly de facto responsible (DFR) for production, but the employer gets sole legal responsibility for the positive and negative results of production. This violates the principle of legal and de facto responsibility matching. DFR isn’t de facto transferred, but legal responsibility is. Morally, this is an institutional fraud
@memesCapitalism inherently involves treating persons as things
In what sense, that other economic systems don’t?
This violates the principle of legal and de facto responsibility matching.
Not sure what such a principle would mean.
The different levels of involvement in an enterprise reflect the fact that each person is free to enter a variety of types of economic cooperation. When people get choice, diversity of behavior is the result.
What you’re seeing in different people having different levels of risk taking, responsibility, involvement, is evidence that those people entered the contract willingly.
How long till it’ll be automated by AI to increase efficiency?
I hate this timeline.
I know you wanna believe the world is shit, but try to remember that this probably isn’t even real. Don’t get lost in your social media feed. Don’t take curated content as a representative sample of reality. Worst case scenario, someone crafted a story… which is a story older than our timelines themselves.
This seems suspect.
The woman in question is a tiktok ‘influencer’ who has the most amazing things hapoen to her - always wiithout evidence.
I think it’s just as likely that she’s lying to get views and subscribers,
What a sad loser
Most TikTokers are.
Leave Jesus out of this. He’s busy cleaning my pool
This was already debunked awhile ago. it’s bullshit. no restaurant, regardless of how poorly they’re doing, is going to go through all this work to maybe, just mabye, get $50 out of them.
I also definitely would not eat there. I don’t know why it’s assumed that you would eat dinner there after being stood up. I’d be sad and I’d want to be alone, at absolute most I’d get takeout, but there’s probably a greasier takeout that I want, but have been restraining myself from. I’d very much prefer tacos/falafel to a date restaurant meal if I’ve just been stood up.
Also, once the media gets ahold of the story, your business is sunk.
If it were true, you might buy there once, but it will always leave a bitter taste. So not sure if it would be good advertising if you never go there again.
I wonder if it’s really that much work. Especially if they’re cat fishing dudes mostly.
It really says a lot of lemmites that they are treating this as a real thing.
IMHO it says more about humans and social media. People on Facebook and Reddit will believe much more far-fetched stories.
I don’t actually think there’s a ministry of silly walks. While this piece probably didn’t start out as satire it effectively tickles the same bones.
I feel like in this case just say lemmings lol
The original creator of the video never named the restaurant and also has since deleted the video. I can’t find any explanation or followup from her, so this is likely a fake story.
Probably a free dating app too. Just another reminder, you are the product.
Whole new meaning to Ghost Kitchen
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
This seems like it is illegal… If it isn’t now, it certainly will be as soon as it happens to a politician.
You could probably ding them for fraud, but as others have said, this is fake.
IIRC, this was completely made up.
This is fake but it makes me wonder if someone has used a fake profile (that is set up to be more appealing than they actually are) so they could “swoop in” by pretending to notice they were “stood up”.
That’s horrible!
