My life, my few friends’ lives, my family members’ lives, shit just sucks all around. I can’t remember the last time I went somewhere for lunch and paid less than ten dollars. God, remember when fast food used to be the cheap option with somewhat of a reputation for being poor people food? I sure as hell do because that was like 10 years ago (in my experience at least). It’s so incredibly, incredibly fucking ominous to see that all the cashiers are gone and have been replaced by kiosks.
And part of me understands that this is just the natural progression of technology or whatever the fuck, but there are days where I go without talking to someone in real life. The same shit is happening at pharmacies, grocery stores, even Godamn doctors offices. Am I just being too glass half empty? Every part of this seems like a living nightmare and it just continues to get worse
Every time I go to one of the aforementioned establishments, they’ve added another camera or put another item behind a paywall. This just seems to me like brick and mortar stores are becoming high security centers in an effort to push everyone to purchase online.
I don’t think the downstream effects need to be mentioned here. Gee wonder why everyone is hyper-individualistic
Every grocery store has two or three security guards, but only one cashier.
I go to the 7/11 near our house for late night snacks, but the prices have astronomically increased as of late. Sure, it was always more expensive then a grocery store, but now they sell a pint of Ben and Jerry's for $10.
Everything is enshittified. Cracker jack just has a sticker for the prize. They are putting potato chips inside Reese's big cups to save a few cents on peanut butter.
And its all set to get exponentially worse. Everyone knows it, but somehow are deluded that a new president will fix it? Or are just accepting that life is going to suck forever.
But at least trump is going to sell weapons to Ukraine