I love to get all of my groceries from the windowless panopticon where the entire layout is meant to trick my brain into wanting the things that would be rare to a hunter-gatherer.

I could get them from the poet or musician who runs their own business, but instead I get them from the minimum wage workers who can't afford to shop there under the watchful eye of some Kyle Rittenhouse dipshit.

I could have streets full of independent merchants singing their artisan wares, but I get billboards and spam emails designed by psychologists to prey on my insecurities that transfer all of the money I spend out of the local economy.

kitty-birthday-sad

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You’ve said it so poetically. I don’t want to start some long discussion but there is a difference between lower forms of life like worms and higher forms of life like cows and humans in that we higher forms have free time. We play. We imagine and romp. Some of us like humans go even higher! We use our free brain time to think up languages! Music! Space-based telescopes and vaccines! It’s really cool. And capitalism takes us and reduces us to a monad, a cog in a machine, and we’re back to the lower order. Now we do the thing until we die, like the worm turning the earth until they die on the job, conveniently in a hole.

Shit sucks