You ever just walk through a shopping centre and let the full bizarre incongruity of capitalism wash over you? Every shop you pass is full of products that will never be bought - that were always destined to be thrown out rather than used - because that's how it works.
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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 talked about universal basic income on here, somebody popped up to say it wouldn't lift the economy much because there's a bottleneck where goods are concerned, we're at close to peak production in most sectors. And it's like... yeah, but we're not at peak consumption.
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