I call it The Treadmill. If you’re white, able-bodied, educated, motivated to play the game, etc. you can keep from falling off with what feels more or less like an easy walk. Until they speed it up. Or you get sick. Or stop playing the game.
https://www.misfitsmarket.com/
Buy food that was rejected because of its appearance. It’s super cheap, it slows food waste, and it helps out a small company.
All that old growth wood furniture… It always makes me so sad knowing that it’s essentially a semi non-renewable resource
But it can be restored, reused, repurposed or made into something entirely different. Start woodworking and make the world a little bit better.
Food insecurity isn’t always about lack of food, more like lack of logistics.
The liars who pushed “there isn’t enough for everyone” aren’t pushing it much anymore. They’ve moved on to saying “not everyone deserves basic human needs”—which is what they really thought all along.
If you cannot pay for it, you don’t deserve it. The basic tenet of capitalism.
are you posting that though in a quote fashion or somewhat sarcastic or do you actually believe it?
It’s sarcasm
Yes.
Name a place you can exist in the capitalist Dreamland of the USA without paying money to do so?
Name a place anywhere you can live without paying money to do so?
Legally? What’s your level of civilization requirements?
Yes, obviously, legally.
The Library!
You can’t live there.
Brought to you by evil socialist policies, why should I have to pay my taxes for your kids to read books. /S
i dont think i can. whats your point?
In your eyes, is the USA the only capitalist country in the world, or just the only one you hate?
Because ……
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/capitalist-countries
There is room in my heart for lots of hate my friend.
Only room enough in your mouth for the US though, I’ll bet.
Yeah your mom’s genitals were bigger than I expected.
Ecofascism is really about the fascism part at the end of the day.
What? I haven’t seen any ecofascists. The fascists are yet to give a fuck about ecology and climate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
Eco-fascists have been around for yonks. 90% of the time you hear people utter shit like ‘there’s too many people, we need a plague to cure the planet’ that’s an ecofash.
More like: There’s too many brown people, we need a plague to cure the planet.
Funny how they’re never willing to sacrifice themselves/their family/friends/community though. It’s always others who must die in order to
make lebensraumsave the planet.
I live in a very, very rural part of the country. Land is CHEAP; you can buy 100+ acres of forest for under $2000/acre. There are a lot of vacant houses. Why? Because no one wants to live here. (Obviously not no one, since I chose to move here, but still.) There aren’t jobs locally; part of the price I pay for living where I want to live is spending 3+ hours in a car commuting each day. The vacant houses are vacant because the people that lived there either died, or moved because they couldn’t get work. They’re not vacant because some venture capital real estate company is buying up rural homes just to hold on to them as they rot away.
The issue isn’t vacant housing; the issue is where the housing is, and whether it’s actually habitable or not.
Can you live on that land without having to pay taxes or anything?
Because in my country, any cheap land in a place with no employment isn’t viable due to needing employment to maintain ‘ownership’ of the land through fees to the state.
Also even if the issue is location, there is huge amounts of abandoned empty housing in cities with jobs. Squatters are constantly trying to live in such places and getting chased out by cops.
You have found the rub, there is always taxes. The issue is you need internet or local jobs and guess what outside of starmlink there was nothing in the places you can afford. The extra fun part is there are people who move to low COL areas after selling their property when retiring just to make it work. This is a reason that these locations sometimes have a lot of elderly people. Now the real fucked up part is that even this strange retirement tactic does not work if you never are able to buy a place.
What’s also weird is that if you want to get rid of perfectly good things nobody wants it or anyplace that might be able to use it makes it prohibitively difficult to get it to them. Got a functional fridge? Sure, you haul it out of your house, rent a truck, take it to the receiver - oh, and it can’t be more than 10 years old.
I find these posts that complain about waste kinda performative. While they’re not wrong, they ignore the logistical issues, both deliberate and indirect, of getting those things to the people that actually need them.
FWIW I’ve found that putting a “curb alert” for free good items with pictures and a location works pretty well. Some industrious person will usually pick something decent up 75% of the time.
how much food gets thrown away just because it isn’t picturesque?
I’ve tried growing tomatoes, and bub let me tell you, they look nothing like the pristine samples you find in grocery stores
I hate it here. We have answers to all of life’s problems, and yet we humans continue to choose the hard way.
Because the rich will lose profits, greed is the corruption we deal with. Enough is never enough.
It’s infuriating because we out number them to such a scale that it’s not funny, but so many of us are trapped into the system that they would never dare do anything about it.
The storage unit business is still booming, growing at over 7% annually in NA.
We have so much shit we have to rent units offsite to store our shit.and there are legit hoarders, i know someone that is.
And that’s happening at the same time that the square footage per capita has increased dramatically. Not only are houses bigger now, but household size (number of people living in each house) has shrunk too. That’s how much shit we got.
Is this happening in rural areas? I feel like in cities and suburbs there are more people living in a household. Like roommates or multiple families, because of how expensive housing is.
Because the two thousand child raping and killing men who rule over us have deemed it so
Capitalism depends on violence and deprivation to keep labor desperate and exploitable.
Maybe, but violence and deprivation existed long before any systems of logistical distribution or sales. Early capitalism solved some of those issues. But we’re in late stage capitalism now.
We produce enough food to feed everyone, it’s just that it’s not profitable to do so because the rich are greedy ghouls.
Capitalism working as designed
It’s fueled by greed and the desire to control others.
