Clothing stores is where it hits me the most. All these clothes that are fashionable for three seconds, produced en masse by what is often basically slave labour, built to fall apart so you have to buy new ones next season, designed to fit only a fraction of bodies anyway.
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All over the world, there are graveyards of unused, unbought cars, whitegoods, electronics, you name it - all built for mass production and then left to rust because donating them for free is viewed as a bigger sin than letting them, and their labour and parts, be wasted.
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Imagine some future archaeologist unearthing an acre field of crumbling washing machines and wondering what the fuck kind of ritual purpose they served in our culture. Wondering if they were cursed, or put there as a warning, or because of some disaster now lost to time.
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All these cheap plastic tchotchkes and toys, things that would maybe be meaningful if crafted and loved individually but which instead are almost universally known to be and treated as meaningless tat, engaging at the moment of purchase and then forgotten.
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You know? The sheer SCALE of it. The absolute, visceral unsustainability of every single subservient industry that underpins modern capitalism. It's so bizarre in so many ways, I can't believe how normalised it is; and yet I still unsee it a lot of the time for the same reason.
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When I shop for clothes I always realise that 99% is stuff I will never even consider buying. So. Much. Waste.
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Food is what gets me mostly. After seeing pallets & pallets of "Thanksgiving sales" thrown out in dumpsters my worldview continued to shift further.
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Yes, malls/shopping centers gross me out this way.
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I can’t go into most shops now for this reason. I get chills.
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