Something about the existence of a Milk and Cookies tray and mug set really bothers me. Single-use, kitschy, ugly, and yet surely deemed necessarily and relatively inexpensive and requiring (a small fraction of) hard labor of hundreds of people being paid very poorly.

Gather round and watch Maoo struggle with the liberalism of personal asceticism in response to capitalism. Watch Maoo's brain hurt over some dumb tableware.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found the fucking POSER. Real Christmas fans leave milk and cookies out for Santa every night of the year.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

I have been owned

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If we assume it took one hour of cummulative labor to produce (extraction of materials, manufacture, transport, then divided by the number of mugs made), then in an ideal world things like this would still exist. Surely someone who enjoys such a thing would exchange money worth one hour of their own labor for it. Even in the preindustrial era people would spend the meager manpower and resources they have on kitschy things like this. I mean I've 3D printed dumber things as gifts and the 15 minutes of effort I put in it wasn't a great expenditure.