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I think many of your examples are illusions of choice. Most brands in the super market roll up to a handful of players, the "choice" for many items ultimately l

I think many of your examples are illusions of choice. Most brands in the super market roll up to a handful of players, the "choice" for many items ultimately lines the same pockets. Housing choices? Is that the choice to buy / rent vs live on the street? Capitalism has given us the homeless crisis which was non-existing just 70 years ago.

lazyier 7y ago
> I think many of your examples are illusions of choice. Most brands in the super market roll up to a handful of players, the "choice" for many items ultimately lines the same pockets. So don't buy the big brands. Buy local. Are you telling me that there is no possible way that you can go to a farmers market and buy food? That the only choice you have is one of Conagra's food brands? That you can't go one the one of probably hundreds of grocery stores and restaurants that are probably within driving distance of your house? This is what I mean by 'Open Your Eyes'. Like just go outside and look around! If you live is in a developed western country and you are complaining about lack of choices it's very likely that the problem is you and your own choices. > Housing choices? Is that the choice to buy / rent vs live on the street? Since when in human history has people never had to work for housing? There is only a thin band of habitat in the earth that humans can survive and thrive without housing and technology and work. Too hot and we die. Too cold and we die. Not wet enough and we starve. Not dry enough and we starve. To spread across the rest of the planet we had to work our asses off. If you think life is harder for a 20-something having to deal with the indignity of living in a un-hip part of town because they can't afford a nicer place... then it is for a frontier family that has to grow their own food and build their own house from supplies they had to drag behind mules from hundreds of miles away? If so, I have some bad news for you. "Having to work" is not evidence that capitalism is terrible. You are going to work no matter what. Whether it's socialism or capitalism or if you live in some monastery somewhere. It's not optional. It's never going to be optional.

lazyier 7y ago

> I think many of your examples are illusions of choice. Most brands in the super market roll up to a handful of players, the "choice" for many items ultimately lines the same pockets. So don't buy the big brands. Buy local. Are you telling me that there is no possible way that you can go to a farmers market and buy food? That the only choice you have is one of Conagra's food brands? That you can't go one the one of probably hundreds of grocery stores and restaurants that are probably within driving distance of your house? This is what I mean by 'Open Your Eyes'. Like just go outside and look around! If you live is in a developed western country and you are complaining about lack of choices it's very likely that the problem is you and your own choices. > Housing choices? Is that the choice to buy / rent vs live on the street? Since when in human history has people never had to work for housing? There is only a thin band of habitat in the earth that humans can survive and thrive without housing and technology and work. Too hot and we die. Too cold and we die. Not wet enough and we starve. Not dry enough and we starve. To spread across the rest of the planet we had to work our asses off. If you think life is harder for a 20-something having to deal with the indignity of living in a un-hip part of town because they can't afford a nicer place... then it is for a frontier family that has to grow their own food and build their own house from supplies they had to drag behind mules from hundreds of miles away? If so, I have some bad news for you. "Having to work" is not evidence that capitalism is terrible. You are going to work no matter what. Whether it's socialism or capitalism or if you live in some monastery somewhere. It's not optional. It's never going to be optional.