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?
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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Do you really have to ask? Capitalism, when it goes unchecked, turns everything shitty. Capitalism has been relatively unchecked in the US for the last 50 years, so everything is shitty. That’s starting to change as unions become more powerful again, but they’re still a fraction of what they were in the early 20th century. Late stage capitalism, baby!
Not only are unions enjoying a resurgence holding employers to account, the FTC under Lina Khan is doing antitrust for the first time in most of our lifetimes. It's bad now, but it will get better if we fight for it like we did back then.
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go actually read Marx, dude was smart af.
Anything in particular? He has boocoos of books.
beaucoups
There are multiple acceptable spellings of this word.
I chose boocoos, because it looks funny.
Capital 1, if you can hack it.
It's very long. Seems interesting, though. As someone that has lived in communism, I can say with first hand that it doesn't work en mass. But, then again, capitalism doesn't work either...
It's more of a treatise on economics.
Oh ok cool. I added to the reading list yesterday, and plan to get to it after the one I'm reading now.
The Manifesto is literally 20 pages.
Unions have nothing to do with companies enshittifying their products and services
Free the beers and we might see some novel inventions like the Japanese toilet bidet )