I do like going shopping but that’s because then I get stuff, and having new stuff is cool. But you don’t need a capitalist hierarchy to make any of this happen
I’m a Marxist girl
In a Marxist world
I heard that Marx was, ironically, rather financially irresponsible and often had money troubles. Once he had money he spent it all on parties and nice food and such.
This is blatant consumerist propaganda!
Also shopping not fun. I want to walk into a store and pick up Balsamic Glaze and leave. I don’t want to have to assess the minute differences in weight, cost, and quality of 30 different products that are all in the same race to win over my dollar and maximize their profits.
That’s one reason why refill store is good.
A couple of years ago they started putting the per kg price under the item price in Germany. At first I thought that’s for idiots who cannot calculate. Now I absolutely love this. I hardly even check the item price anymore, my eyes go straight to per kg. Fuck my idiotic entitled smartass past self, per kg prices are the best thing that ever happened to capitalist supermarkets
In the US we have a mix of:
- Price per individual unit
- Price per entire unit
- Price per weight
- Price per volume
And different products from the same category will choose different ones so you have to do the math anyway.
E.g. Sometimes our berries will be sold in split tubs so you’ll get the price for the whole thing and then on the comparison tag a price for half the tub. That will be sitting next to a different brand of the same berry in a package 2oz smaller and it’s comparison text will have the price per Oz, sitting next to that is an entire other brand and it will list the price of the whole unit and in comparison will list the same price again labeled explicitly as “per unit”.
Like every thing the US manages to shit out it’s an utterly terrible system.
Dear God this gave me an aneurysm - trying to follow this logic at 11:38 pm makes my brain collapse.
(Well written though and I am sorry you have to go through that on a regular basis.)
Well then do i have an opportunity to preach the good word of syndicalism to you.
Tbh I don’t get “shopping”/“retail therapy.” Obviously I have wants for luxuries, but usually I pine after these for months and hold off on the decision until I feel I have saved enough and worked hard enough to justify it. Spontaneously going out to buy luxury items is a much rarer impulse for me.
I really like shopping for clothes but I don’t buy new I always go thrifting. There is something so satisfy with finding a nice unique dress that fits right for $10.
Ah but have you tried just never thinking through the consequences of your actions? It seems like about 75% of people never do.
Iddon’t buy shit I need, but I can get behind the feeling. When I walk through the hardware store I would like to buy a grinder, a saw, a drill and many more things. Not that I need any of them, because most is already in lower quality at home, but I really would have fun buying shit.
Have you ever been to a free shop?
I get it now 🥲
- Boris Yeltzin in an American 🇺🇸🦅Grocery Store:
That’s more of a climate critique between Russia and the US.
Right.
Because communism doesn’t exist, it’s completely free of problems.
(not /s, by the way.)
A communist US would still grow oranges and peaches.
A capitalist Siberia still wouldn’t.
A communist US would still grow oranges and peaches.
logically, yes. It would also export sturgeon caviar.
💖🧸 come on Marxi, let’s go party 🎉💖
To be fair, Usagi did go on to cure death and create a neo-socialist workers paradise while bloodlessly uniting all the people of earth…
All the people of earth at that point were the few people in Japan that she happened to save from a global freeze. So, bloodlessly is probably not the right term for that.
Eeh, Great Freeze was an ecological disaster caused by sailor chaos. When Usagi is interred on the Silver Throne after revealing herself as Neo-Queen serenity, she restores the population to their rightful place on earth, then loses her daughter to time manipulation hijinks, which prompts her to ally with Sailor Mars and embark on her great crusade to unite the Sailors and find her lost child, accompanied by her loyal yet enigmatically powerful servant Mamodor…
or, wait hang on…
compelling argument.
One side of me shuns consumerism.
Other wants to participate in the stereotpical feminine tradition, out of spite.Thrift shopping!
I adore thrift shopping but it can become an easy way to lift your conscience after overconsumption. I have a friend who tries to buy nothing new and good for her and the environment, but she constantly treats herself to thrift shopping sprees, realizes that she doesn’t need most of it shortly after, and declutters boxes of stuff each week and puts them in “for free” giveaway cupboards in the city where, let’s be honest here, 80% of the stuff ends up getting trashed. Tldr: thrift whenever you can but it is no excuse to go berserk.
Is shopping for groceries fun?
