The next day, Monday, November 11th.
Lin Li headed to the classroom.
Singles' Day—another year's e-commerce festival. But Lin Li hadn't bought a single thing.
The value of Singles' Day had really been dropping lower and lower.
Singles' Day used to offer genuine discounts. Especially in the second year after the event launched—if you wanted something, you had to fight for it.
Back then, Lin Li had even suspected that the e-commerce festival was some cannibals' scheme to encourage everyone to chop off their hands.
KFC people went crazy on Singles' Day. V me one hand.
But Singles' Day now? Heh. Original price 598, 148 off the deposit, 50 off purchases over 500 in-store, 30 off cross-store purchases over 300, 20 off for members spending over 200, another twenty percent off for preorders—like a little sow wearing an ominous sign, one trick after another. Buying something was like doing a math problem.
It would be fine if the discounts were real.
In the end, you finally got that 598 item for 200, feeling delighted, only to check its price history and find that it had been listed at 200 in October. They had specifically raised it to 598 before Singles' Day, then discounted it.
The moment you saw that, you behaved.
But where could there be that many real discounts in the world? The wool comes from the sheep. Merchants were driven by profit.
Remember, as long as you could read, you would know that in "capitalist," none of the characters represented a person—but "capital" pressed down on people, propped people up, and left no people in the household.
That was what capitalists were like. They would rather pour milk down the drain than sell it cheaply.
There really were products in this world with a genuine cost price of