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Parasites
Deny them engagement and profit... Food delivery is peak luxury service but yet the normie keeps wasting money on it while crying about being poor lol
Like many convenience services, it's important that it exists because some people genuinely can't walk or can't walk all the time, can't chop their own fruit and veg, etc. Or genuinely don't have enough time in the day to cook or pick something up. But people will still use these things for simple luxury reasons.
Those are fringe use cases. Majority of it is conspicuous consumption.
Also, grocery stores sell prepared foods and there other options for these people. Why are they choosing most expensive one?
I mean, most everyone will be disabled at some point in their life. They're also useful for the average person when they're sick and don't have anyone to take care of them. I know I've struggled to feed myself when I had the flu or covid.
But even if they are indeed fringe use cases, those services do need to exist for those cases. And restricting them isn't very helpful either way because applying for any sorts of benefits is often difficult and/or degrading for many disabled people. BUT: we should still encourage those who CAN avoid this stuff to do so, since they are indeed damaging to worker's rights and the environment.
Nobody suggested Amy restrictions
Me thesis is that vast majority of the users of these services are broke people who have no business using them but the conversation always devolves into some fringe cases needing them...
It is a free market to waste your money as you see please but in current economic context, it is clowny to be whining about being broke and then using thee services.
Who's down voting this 😂 Big food delivery bots? Or are there really that many people who hate hearing the truth?
Got a few people big mad about it too
Clearly an unpopular opinion lol
Anecdotally, the people I know who order door dash multiple times a week are also people who frequently complain about money
that's really not the problem here, and do you believe the grocery monopolies wouldn't do this same shit? that they don't already?
I am suggesting viable substitution options which is the grocery store prepped food which also does delivery
in the same way taco bell is a substitute for mcdonalds.
this is only a substitute if you assume the problem is poor people having treats, and not employees being fucked out of their pay. if you assume the problem is delivery staff being fucked out of their pay, the problem, and in many cases exact companies/staff, are the same.
I am not even getting into how shiti these parasite treat the workers.
Just merely notting that getting slop delivered by doordash is the most expensive option on the market, everyone is bitching about being poor then proceeda to defend using this trash service
Which is also terriable for the worker on top of that
this isn't about bitching about being poor, and being worn down to nothing and badgered and bullied by advertising until your will to resist wears out isn't something you should blame the victim for. if you want to bitch at people about consuming beyond their means, yell at an ad-man.
Ad man ain't never stopping his shit
But people could make better decisions...
so, why do trillions of dollars of the economy go to making them make worse ones every day, grinding them down until they don't have the energy to resist, and pushing them?
just because it's fun? or does it, to some extent, work? stop blaming victims in a thread about corporations fucking people over.
Calling out poor spending habits =/= blaming the victim
Y'all are delulu to be dying on this clown hill.
you're the one who brought it up to piss on poor people in a thread about megacorporations fucking over their employees by stealing wages/tips.
Who funds these mega corpos?
How much of what they provide is actually must have?
but you suggested they suck off other corpos who have the exact same systems with the exact same exploitation for a slightly different product you claim does the same outcome to the consumer.
also, the government. the government funds most of them. this 'illusion of consumer choice' thing is pretty delusional, and just feels like victim blaming. remember 'plastic recycling'?
and you didn't answer my question about advertising. why? why spend so much on it if it doesn't work? if people's decisions are their own?
I would tell people to fucking buy groceries and eat at home... That's what sane people do. Saves ton of money and limits number of parasites taking an cut from 12 to like 4-5.
Plastic are inevitable and it is systems issues but many products exist where plastic container can by avoided like bar of shampoo for example.
Advertising works hence why people blocks ads and pay for ad free shit. It is worth it too.
It is funny how people are this unwilling to review their consumption habits without having degree of a melt down over it. Sure we are getting fucked by corpos but it does not mean you have to make it easy for them. But the normie can't be bothered exercising simple economic behavior like product substitution and refusing to pay for certain luxuries.
this is not what this thread was about. stop finding a reason to bitch about the way our culture makes collective cooking unattainable for poor people.
we had society for thousands of years, and industrialized consumerist society for decades, before plastics. dude are you high? I'm ready to get on your level, for entirely altruistic understanding debatelord reasons.
if advertising works, then people are not wholly, or maybe even majority, responsible for their bad decisions in favor of what corporations want them to do-consume, and consume extravagantly.
so stop making it easy. go after the bad guys. stop fucking victim blaming and destroying people, and remind them that there is an enemy USING them, taking their fucking freedom. someone to hate. make fighting back easier, instead of blaming them.
well then. it sounds like you just discard them as people. if they're objects, why are they worthy of hate? that would mean they're just tools being used by their masters. break the tools or stop their masters. your entire approach here is not internally consistent.
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I am not following this anti agency rhetoric. If people don't help themselves, nobody is helping them. This includes being a discerning consumer.
I spend most of my time shilling against corpos, however, purchasers have agency and they have some economic power esp on luxury goods and services segments like food delivery.
You are having a melt down at the idea that I suggested that they should exercise some agency... Why?
I don't see how this is victim blaming but I got downvotes and only rebuttal so far "victim blaming" and "futile exercise" which itbmihjt be futile if only I do it. It wouldn't be me if enough people adjusted their consumption patterns.
im talking about cases of disabled people, or people who for whatever reason are hungry and cannot leave the house. the alternative proposed was GROCERY delivery. which kind of gives the game away, because everything wrong with it is the same, it's just less 'luxury', so poor people should be less ashamed, I guess. and that's what my objection is to.
okay so why do they spend so much on advertising? I'm not saying there's no responsibility to resist, I'm saying it's fucking hard. I go pretty hard on it, and I think it fucks me up a little. most of my expenses beyond rent are microcontrollers, lumber, flour, oil, and vegetables. I think it has made me unfailingly cynical, even more bitter, even more cruel, even less compassionate.
I think a lot of people don't have the capacity to resist that we do, and I think that real emotional labor costs us. I don't think blaming people who have less of this capacity than you and I are the perpetrators to go after here, morally, and, more importantly: I think attacking them for it degrades their capacity to resist, but pointing out the enemy that is attacking them could increase their capacity to resist, make it easier, and give them more clarity when they're in that fucked up exhausted fugue state we all get pretty close to sometimes.
don't throw a temper tantrum and lash out at proximal causes, even if they are a part of the swiss cheese. go after the root cause, or look at what gives you the best outcomes. I think in this case those courses of action are the same.
You still using fringe case to make the point... How many of daily doordash orders are placed by disabled?
I think the last part of what im saying is the important part, and you would be responding to it if you weren't more interested in shaming poor people for being poor than being angry at corporations that exploit their workers and customers.
just be honest; you hate poor people for being poor. you think they're trash. it's the internet, and a lot of the internet is from america; you can just DO that.
Being poor doesn't excuse stupid behavior jfc
Buying doordash is a stupid behavior with a few exceptions but especially if you are poor.
But sure consume the slop, who fucking cares. Fund your oppressor because you can't do substitutions or avoid bad deals.
read what i fucking said. you just want to be angry at poor people. you do not want to improve their behavior. you are fanatically opposed to looking at the structural forces that incept this behavior in their heads.
you just want to be angry at poor people for wanting something they're told is a nice treat. you are not interested in fixing the problem. you are interested in being angry at poor people. that is your only motivation here. I'm not interested in being angry at poor people, at least not as a class. I think being interested in doing that over doing anything to fix the problem or go after the structural causes is phenomenally shitty, and I can't think of a good person who would continue to do that after having it pointed out, if it runs counter to the solution. which I believe it does.
Bro... My work on here speaks for itself.
This comment thread specifically is about people acting like idiots and feeding capitalist regime with their bad consumption patterns.
I never denied your position has merit... You are the one who can't appreciate the value of direct action and snow ball effect it can have
I think telling people that they're being fucking used is more productive than telling them they're weak. constantly shouting at people that they're weak does not make them strong.
you are, however, entirely correct; I absolutely do not respect direct action. the revolution will be achieved through posts, and posts alone. everything else is a waste of time, and suggesting anything other than posting suggests you're either a fed or a fundamentally unserious person.
Lol wat
sorry, re-wrote it to be a little clearer.
I still don't get it... Why would you not respect direct action that's like the only thing left for anyone do since political process has been captured.
Sure we can shit post about it all day but unless people start deny parasite profit nothing changes.
I guess there is option to reclaim the political process but there is even less enthusiasm from general public for than than there is avoiding using door dash.
read what I fucking said.
I'm not an electoralist. elections are also counter-revolutionary. always were. only posting.
or, when they start using drones, start stealing the drones. and also maybe the food.