Why It’s So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism by Second Thought
We have to stop depending on clumbsy corporate everything, local systems should be making all this inflation much slower.
b-b-but allowing each sector of the economy to coalesce into one giant corporation’s ownership is… (pulls MBA notes out of ass)… the MoSt EfFiCiEnT UsE oF cApItAl!!
Don’t they mean $70 per week subscription, because… why not!
No, $70 is just for a three hour block. Stop being poor.
Because you own neither the towel, nor the land! It is provided for you, so the least you can do is pay for it! Because… Well… Wait, I’ll get to it eventually… Hmm…
Feudalism come back like crabgrass, because people who figure out how to benefit from it are far more motivated than those of us who just want to live. Pro tip: Rebrand it as Freedom!
And that’s why I only leave the house to find food
Food costs quadruple
Housing costs double before you get home
I had been in the US for a few weeks last summer, it felt like this.
Don’t forget to tip!
Everywhere wants a tip. It’s insane to me.
Every time I go to the US, it feels like you’re expected to tip pretty much every one you interact with. It gets old so fast.
The only critique I have is that there should have also been an iPad with a minimum 25% tip.
Don’t forget the convenience charge, then there’s a booking fee, as well as payment processing fee to top it off
I had to call Kaiser the other day to get a doctors note for work. Two second call where the guy asked me what I needed. I told him I needed a doctors note for stomach issues. No follow up questions. No medical advice. No attempt to find out what was going on or anything. Made up a doctors note for me and sent it to my inbox.
Two weeks later I get a $185 bill for “visiting their facilities”.
When I feel a little sick in the morning, I text my boss from the bed, turn off the alarms and sleep all day. Finland.
Imagine a guy with lots of money taking a job and getting a doctors note daily just to fuck with the place, and when they fire him he successfully sues them so they have to keep him on even though he never actually clocks in for any reason.
Ah man, that’d be funny.
Rent: $1,500
Electric: $150
Internet: $100
Gas: $160
Food: $400
Phone: $60
Insurance: $166(per month over 6 months)
Total: $84 a day.
you know what i’ve come to suspicion lately?
actually, rent prices might be so high because there’s fewer houses/apartments than people looking for one, and that drives prices up (low supply, high demand), but the reason that supply is so low is because investors are predicting that the population number will fall in the future (due to low birth rate), so people’s demand for houses/apartments will be lower as well. so if they construct now, it might not pay out for them later on. that is why they’re waiting, and not constructing, and if people do the same, instead of buying houses now, buying them later (e.g. living with your parents), rent and housing prices might significantly go down.
Hundred bucks a week for food? For 1 person?
Depends a bit, but yes? My weekly groceries is like $150+ (closer to $170 or so most weeks) for two of us, and that’s living in a pretty shit-ass cheap state.
That’s only $14 a day, I think that’s fair.
Amazon will undercut that guy and let you exist for $63.
Only until Amazon runs them out of business, then it’s up to $75 with a 10% increase each year
Nah… they’ll keep the $63 plan, but also offer you a $75 ad-free plan that reduces the ads to 20 hours a day.
Stay there! You won’t find such a cheap place ever again!
Wouldn’t be so bad if I had lots of 70 dollars to give.
Spend!
No wage, only spend!
I’m reading a book by Philip K. Dick (“Ubik”), where everything in the fictional future is coin operated: doors, toasters, showers, everything.
Feels like he either predicted this world we live in, or caused it.
Amazing book, btw. Like one long fever dream.
I’m like 3/4 of the way through it and yes. I’m surprised at all the turns it’s taken already and just how floaty the characters are. Probably a lot of parallels with how I understand the author’s life got in the 60s. ☮
If you think that’s amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.
Who was that? Or any more details? I’m intrigued!
Edit: do you just mean marx? That’s less intriguing, not wrong, but less intriguing.
A breath of fresh air is about 2200 USD so that’s actually cheap
Oh you don’t mean the bottle?
https://us.houseofhazelwood.com/products/a-breath-of-fresh-air
If it is per actual air, it’s about 2 cents per breath, cheap as hell
You could also opt into the subscription model for $12.95 per month. $15.95 without ads (there are totally ads but, like, maybe a few less).
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