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The answer is stop buying new whenever possible and thrift and buy used for everything you can. Learn to make food at home, Make crafts that bring pleasure.
Capitalism is not the concept of currency tbf
oo, this reminds me of one of my favorite Existential Comics!
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/263
click to see the comic
You have inspired me to try to find a local shoemaker.
I think the comic was supposed to inspire you to initiate a communist revolution 😄 for the cool shoes we will make, of course
… I like your choice of nail polish.
the system forcing you to use it to exist is a reason why it’s so unfair and needs to be destroyed.
that’s like saying that it’s stupid for a slave to want to escape yet he eats the food the slaver gives him
We aren’t that far from slavery. Let’s consider the analogy of the slave owner and the slave. The slave owner lives on the labor of his slaves. The slave owner takes the value of the slaves’ labor and returns a fraction of that value to the slave in the form of food, clothing, and shelter. (Suppose it would be unprofitable to let the slave die.) Now, the slave owner can work with his slaves in the field if they so choose. And maybe the slave owner has a pleasant demeanor and treats the slaves (relatively) well. But no matter how he works in the fields and no matter how nice he is, the slave owner is still living off of the value of the slaves. Moreover, in a system of widespread slavery, he needs slave-labor in order to compete with other slave owners.
One may object that there are several disanalogies here. The modern-day worker can choose who gets the value of their labor. The experienced worker can negotiate higher wages based on higher earning potential. The successful worker may acquire enough money to go into business for themselves and hire others.
Perhaps these are fair objections but they do not touch on the point of the analogy. There is a fundamental distinction between the slave owner, who lives on the labor of slaves, and the slaves who labor for the slave owner. Similarly, there is a fundamental distinction between the capitalist, who lives on the labor of workers, and the workers who labor for the capitalist.
I’d say the difference between chattel slavery and modern capitalism is different, but only on some traits.
conceptually that are all based on coersive labour exploration.
if it wasn’t for labour movements the parasites would take us back to chattel slavery…
actually, how long until Alligator Auschwitz starts leasing brown people to plantations as slaves?
Hell, slavery never ended. It’s in the prison system, as specified by the Constitution.
i fill the void with cheese
This is the way
It’s not the same without the Buc-ees logo on the dispenser.
The void being my stomach and the things needed to fill it being food.
More like buy things to survive.
No kidding. Who can afford void-filling right now?
Embrace the void, and fill the cup just with hate
You don’t need that shit. It is a drug.
It sucks that it’s normalized. And it sucks that the culture we live in makes us want to and feel the need to escape through pointless soulless bullshit.
It sucks that it’s on purpose.
It sucks that people gain freedom from promoting it.
Commis linking this
“I want to do something creative, ya know, express ‘me’”!
Buys a pre assembled art “kit”
Totally fine
It’s all I’ve really got the creative energy for anymore, a little more involved than a jigsaw, not as expensive as Lego, and i can still build something
The two is not mutable exclusive.
True! Oniomania is not the same as an economic system that sets those with capital above others with less capital.
There are definitely some economic systems that might help both though.
“Capitalism” this “capitalism” that, as if any other kind of system has ever existed, can we please blame conservatives, authoritarianism, and deregulation properly and not just the fucking concept of currency and markets?
