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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At this point thought can we really victim blame? Like were all just advanced moneys and it turns out almost every monkey in this environment will get addicted and capitilists are happy to use that maliciously.

It issue is systematic at the least, and I can almost gaurentee won't be solved in the next century by a couple people voting with just their wallets

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's both. We are both simultaneously capable of free will, yet are also products of the universe that created us. So my answer to your question, in my humble opinion, is yes. Yes, we can victim blame while simultaneously lamenting the corporate landscape.

Let's make this simpler. This corporate greed is a problem, yes? What actions have you taken to remove this problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Total and unquestionable revolution.

Just take a peek at history and the times things changed 'peacefully'

(ghandi didn't go on a hunger strike to look skinnier that's for sure)