• arrow74@lemmy.zip
      142·
      1 day ago

      Yes use a significant portion of your meager income to get you that dog hat from a private seller 2 states over.

      I’m generally against our overconsumption culture and have been critically evaluating what I need.

      That being said the corporations have us by the balls. They priced out the competition and lobbied to keep our wages low. So we have to evaluate between having less of whatever you buy from the “little guy” or buying from the corporations. For the majority it’s a matter of surviving. If you buy from a small seller their supply chain or the product they produce is in some way coming from a mega corporation. We are truly fucked

      And no you don’t need a dog hat, but I acknowledge sometimes you just want to buy a dumb little thing to make this shit time feel a little bit better.

      I guess my point is it doesn’t make much of a difference if it’s Amazon, best buy, target, or Walmart. They all lobby for us to get fucked and that fucking keeps us dependent on them.

  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    2 days ago

    A small mercy of losing your country to oligarchs is that you’re under no obligation to save them from themselves. Well, until the mandatory conscription stage, anyway.

    • WanderingThoughts
      10·
      2 days ago

      That’s history repeating once again. The rich abuse the poor, pick a fight, conscript the poor and are then shocked when the abused farmers would just stand aside when the attack came. Smart nobility knew this is a two way even street.

    • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 day ago

      The World at War is over 30 hours if you can stomach the western bias. They interview like Winston Churchill’s driver and Hitler’s secretary.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
    104·
    2 days ago

    I mean, there’s nothing you can do about it besides prepare yourself to make the most difficult decisions a person can make. May as well shop for dog hats in the meantime.