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If you feel embarrassed that your maid will know you buy $6 bread, buy $3 bread and give your maid $3. Instead, they peel the sticker off.

oculusthrift 9y ago
That 6 dollars is going to the bread maker who can then feed their family and the family of their employees while being proud of the work. Not sure why the nanny should get free money instead while the bread maker is left to dry.
- Retra 9y ago
  The baker is still getting paid.
  - oculusthrift 9y ago
    3 dollar bread = corporate conglomerate fake stuff. 6 dollar bread = local baker artisan Nanny = give me more money for free because i deserve it by virtue of existing
- plandis 9y ago
  I think the point is that if you, as an individual, feel bad about your spending habits then perhaps a change is in order? If the root of the problem is that your embarrassed by the inequality you might be showing to others than perhaps working towards ending the inequality might be a more productive use of your capital. I'm not the original poster but that's how I read it.
sillysaurus3 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with buying $6 bread or having many cars or whatever. You don't need to flagellate yourself just because you have money. It's just life. Even if we tear everything down and rebuilt from first principles, some would have more and others less. By six orders of magnitude. It's just inescapable. Even communist countries were like that. The rich person hate is pretty dopey. There's a subreddit /r/LateStageCapitalism that actively breeds hate against rich people the same way /r/coontown bred hate against blacks. It's just somehow more socially acceptable to post online about killing rich people than minorities. There was literally a comment that was talking over the merits of stabbing Musk just for being a wealthy capitalist. I'm not sure where I'm going with this comment other than to say it's a very strange time we live in. The whole "us vs them" mentality isn't healthy. There's no reason they should feel bad about buying $6 bread just because they can.
- pharrington 9y ago
  It seems that no small part of most people's social nature is aversion to perceived unfairness, from within or without.
- nickthemagicman 9y ago
  /r/LateStageCapitalism is not about breeding hate against the rich? I just went there and not a single post on any page I went to had a hateful post towards the rich. Maybe there's one or two posts occasionally but there's 180,000 subscribers.... It's actually a really good subreddit about legit problems we're facing in ....Late Stage Capitalism.
  - sillysaurus3 9y ago
    https://i.imgur.com/OdUWQrE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OdUWQrE.jpg https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20/gotta_deport_em/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20... Godda deport 'em! Kick those rich people out! They're destroying America. Get rid of those scumbags before they destroy you! Come on now. That's exactly what they're doing. https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20/gotta_deport_em/dmojuux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20... "You spelled "confiscate their property, send them to gulag, and allow them to work their way back into society" wrong. Deporting the Bourgeoisie only inflicts them on another country."
    - andrepd 9y ago
      You're seriously this upset about (i) use of irony and (ii) commenters on an online forum?
      - sillysaurus3 9y ago
        Here's what I almost tacked onto the end of my original comment: "In before someone defends them by saying it's sarcasm. Oh? So the people in /r/coontown who were being sarcastic about killing blacks is reprehensible, but this is somehow ok?" I didn't want to construct a strawman argument, but there you go. Dismissing online forums seems silly. Both HN and reddit have had a huge impact.
Mikeb85 9y ago
As if 6 dollar loaves of bread even come with a sticker. For that price I'm getting an artisan boule that is tossed into a paper bag.
breadthrow2 9y ago
The funny thing about worrying over the $6 dollar bread: what it really shows is that they have no idea how much anything costs at all for normal people. $6 is not a crazy price for a loaf of bread, which is a lot of food, and a loaf of plain, off-brand white bread costs $3 in NYC.
conanbatt 9y ago
I think people do these kinds of things all the time. People walk out of a starbucks with 4 dollar bagels everyday and pass homeless people. And people everyday choose to have something for themselves even though there is much more value to another individual if you donated it to them. The rich are vilified, and hence no-one wants to identify himself publicly to be a villain, as simple as that.
- wink 9y ago
  Not sure I get your example. I've never seen anyone stepping out of a Starbucks, passing a homeless person while hiding their coffee so it can't be seen. Or they were hiding it so well I also didn't see it ;)
  - conanbatt 9y ago
    The shame for having more than others is shared by a large portion of society. Hiding a label is just one manifestation.

oculusthrift 9y ago

That 6 dollars is going to the bread maker who can then feed their family and the family of their employees while being proud of the work. Not sure why the nanny should get free money instead while the bread maker is left to dry.

Retra 9y ago
The baker is still getting paid.
- oculusthrift 9y ago
  3 dollar bread = corporate conglomerate fake stuff. 6 dollar bread = local baker artisan Nanny = give me more money for free because i deserve it by virtue of existing
plandis 9y ago
I think the point is that if you, as an individual, feel bad about your spending habits then perhaps a change is in order? If the root of the problem is that your embarrassed by the inequality you might be showing to others than perhaps working towards ending the inequality might be a more productive use of your capital. I'm not the original poster but that's how I read it.

sillysaurus3 9y ago

There's nothing wrong with buying $6 bread or having many cars or whatever. You don't need to flagellate yourself just because you have money. It's just life. Even if we tear everything down and rebuilt from first principles, some would have more and others less. By six orders of magnitude. It's just inescapable. Even communist countries were like that. The rich person hate is pretty dopey. There's a subreddit /r/LateStageCapitalism that actively breeds hate against rich people the same way /r/coontown bred hate against blacks. It's just somehow more socially acceptable to post online about killing rich people than minorities. There was literally a comment that was talking over the merits of stabbing Musk just for being a wealthy capitalist. I'm not sure where I'm going with this comment other than to say it's a very strange time we live in. The whole "us vs them" mentality isn't healthy. There's no reason they should feel bad about buying $6 bread just because they can.

pharrington 9y ago
It seems that no small part of most people's social nature is aversion to perceived unfairness, from within or without.
nickthemagicman 9y ago
/r/LateStageCapitalism is not about breeding hate against the rich? I just went there and not a single post on any page I went to had a hateful post towards the rich. Maybe there's one or two posts occasionally but there's 180,000 subscribers.... It's actually a really good subreddit about legit problems we're facing in ....Late Stage Capitalism.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  https://i.imgur.com/OdUWQrE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OdUWQrE.jpg https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20/gotta_deport_em/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20... Godda deport 'em! Kick those rich people out! They're destroying America. Get rid of those scumbags before they destroy you! Come on now. That's exactly what they're doing. https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20/gotta_deport_em/dmojuux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6yly20... "You spelled "confiscate their property, send them to gulag, and allow them to work their way back into society" wrong. Deporting the Bourgeoisie only inflicts them on another country."
  - andrepd 9y ago
    You're seriously this upset about (i) use of irony and (ii) commenters on an online forum?
    - sillysaurus3 9y ago
      Here's what I almost tacked onto the end of my original comment: "In before someone defends them by saying it's sarcasm. Oh? So the people in /r/coontown who were being sarcastic about killing blacks is reprehensible, but this is somehow ok?" I didn't want to construct a strawman argument, but there you go. Dismissing online forums seems silly. Both HN and reddit have had a huge impact.

Mikeb85 9y ago

As if 6 dollar loaves of bread even come with a sticker. For that price I'm getting an artisan boule that is tossed into a paper bag.

breadthrow2 9y ago

The funny thing about worrying over the $6 dollar bread: what it really shows is that they have no idea how much anything costs at all for normal people. $6 is not a crazy price for a loaf of bread, which is a lot of food, and a loaf of plain, off-brand white bread costs $3 in NYC.

conanbatt 9y ago

I think people do these kinds of things all the time. People walk out of a starbucks with 4 dollar bagels everyday and pass homeless people. And people everyday choose to have something for themselves even though there is much more value to another individual if you donated it to them. The rich are vilified, and hence no-one wants to identify himself publicly to be a villain, as simple as that.

wink 9y ago
Not sure I get your example. I've never seen anyone stepping out of a Starbucks, passing a homeless person while hiding their coffee so it can't be seen. Or they were hiding it so well I also didn't see it ;)
- conanbatt 9y ago
  The shame for having more than others is shared by a large portion of society. Hiding a label is just one manifestation.