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...while ignoring the reasons people headed in that direction in the first place.
by knownjorbist 5y ago
...while ignoring the reasons people headed in that direction in the first place.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoheh. Truer words were never spoken.
- 3grdlurker 5y agoTo participate in consumerism and capitalism, correct?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoLack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world? Surely not!
- 3grdlurker 5y agoYou can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness. If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the modern world, but I’ve learned a lot since to learn that consumerism is wrong and there’s much that needs to be changed about capitalism.
- asdff 5y agoWhich was to have labor close to the factory and then the office, which now exists on zoom.
- knownjorbist 5y agoGosh, no. It's because roughing it actually sucks if your survival is truly at stake. Right now you don't have to know anything about how to survive in order to survive. You just need to trade some of your time for money, somewhere, somehow.