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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

minimalism is so funny to me.

Like you're buying shit so you can not buy things? Yeah ok buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

I’ve been really interested in learning how to grow vegetables in my back garden. Somehow I just have this feeling that learning how to care about plants to make food (and not just because it flowers and looks pretty) will open my eyes to thinking about nature and the environment

At the moment, climate collapse is a conceptual issue to me in that “sure the days get warmer every year but it’s actually quite nice for me right now”, but I’m not as in tune with my environment to really notice how it’s impacting us.

Growing veg also feels like it has a higher pay off than just the cost price of a single unit of veg. There’s probably some nutritional benefit to it, knowledge etc that does beyond the price of buying an onion from the shop. I think getting in touch with this principle is the key to getting out of the ruthless capitalism structure

Basically, if we all just stopped buying shit and learnt how to fix and make shit ourselves our experiences of the things we attach ourselves to would be so much more authentic

You don’t have to buy doc martens because you feel like a rebel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Punk Rock itself is not a product of capitalism.
Album and ticket sales are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

"Oh, you're expecting capitalism to collapse into anarchy? Better BUY lots of food and antibiotics to stockpile for the collapse!"

Grinch smirk

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

don't buy into the illusion that capitalism is so self-organizing and organic. it requires the direct protection and supervision of a nationwide military and a police force -multiple police forces actually - to protect capital.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Kid named Guy Debord:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Well, things would exist whether you're in a capitalist economic system or not. People would make music and label their genre. People would write books and want to sell them. The real difference is who gets the profits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Sure, sort of. Commodity production, ie the production of goods purely in order to sell and make a profit, likely won't last forever, especially as the rate of profit trends towards 0.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Certified Mark Fisher moment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't played it, but is this disco elesium?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" makes this point in a (typically) very chilling way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

Imagine watching that episode then going to a desk/office/cubicle job 5 days a week without going insane. Must take a shit ton of cognitive dissonance and shamelessness to voluntarily work for capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well it can't commodify me! Oh wait.

Sorry, I got myself worked up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

do you sell your labor on the job market?

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