Pets. They don’t understand capitalism. They just want to be your friend.
Depends on the pet.
Our single brain celled orange asshole may disagree.
Donald Trump is your pet?
(ba dum tss)
You guys don’t lecture your dogs on economics?
My cat lectures me.
Find ways to enjoy life that don’t involve spending money. Libraries, little free libraries, enjoying nature, writing, minimalism, meditation, stoicism. Be vigilant and resist spending money, see it as giving the finger to the corporate overlords. Make an effort to get off the hedonic treadmill.
Just gotta wait for the weekend, just gotta make it through the week, just gotta make it to the weekend…
Mostly by ignoring all the tankie instances on Lemmy.
Coffee
Literally a tool of capitalism
From the article:
As it turns out, what we consider a “coffee break” in the United States is actually explicitly tied to a 1955 court case, the United States vs. Phil Greinetz of Los Wigwam Weavers.
Greinetz owned the Denver tie factory Los Wigwam Weavers and, after World War II, struggled to find staff up for the surprisingly arduous task of tie making. To encourage productivity, he introduced mandatory coffee breaks so that workers would have the energy to make it through their shifts fully alert. One problem, though. Like bad bosses throughout history, Greinetz didn’t want to pay his employees for the time he demanded they spend drinking coffee. Eventually, the U.S. Department of Labor became involved, with the court ultimately deciding, in a rare win for the working person, that employers had to cover coffee breaks since the business was positively affected by employees being jacked up on caffeine.
Not if you drink 6 shots of espresso to experience that coffee high during work
Haha. That’d kill me. I’ve never been a coffee drinker. No hate on coffee, I’ve just never enjoyed it.
Edit: stupid autocorrect
Now that’s a solid tip if ever I saw one.
just the tip ;)
Using the very products of capitalism to escape (ie playing video games and mentally checking the fuck out)
Video games are art my dude.
And like all things, capitalism has captured it and does its best to ruin it for profit
while capital is currently ruining games I don’t see them as inherently products of capitalism. We have always played games and dice made under feudalism are not inherently feudal.
Combination of picturing what could be better and staring into the distance and slowly developing into a “hand of death clutching at your heart” panic attack
That and D&D
Most people self medicate.
I was going to say drugs are pretty nice. Exercise too, but also drugs.
What part of capitalism is exhausting you specifically?
gestures broadly at everything
Take a break from social media and the 24 hour news cycle. Join a political action group if you feel the need, being with like-minded folks can help and you might make a difference. But otherwise sitting home and obsessing over everything that’s wrong with the world will just drive you nuts.
Given your past posts have you considered just sitting out politics?
Like you obviously have opinions but maybe consider that they don’t have enough facts to justify further action…
Maybe think about everything you so broadly gesture at and consider your role (or absence of role) before posting yet more comments. Or just hand wave some more…
I’d rather think of ways to defeat capitalism.
Right, you’re moronically espousing shit while never achieving it… thank you. Good job!
Maybe move to somewhere not capitalist then?
For real. Like why even ask.
For me, it’s the massive medical debt that only seems to get bigger. The cost of living inching higher and higher, while wages remain mostly stagnant. The expectation to provide for others at the expense of time, stress and my own health. It’s not a good time to have a family with needs.
Hmm. Hobbies? Something that isn’t part of the daily grind? Maybe take part in the capitalism for a while, save some money to move somewhere else? I heard there isn’t much at least in the USA in between ultra capitalism and a cabin in the woods. But there might be somewhere else… Maybe a nice hacienda in Andalusia?
Be successful and be responsible for my own happiness
Aggressive mediocrity, malicious compliance.
Social media, appearently.
Don’t subscribe to the hive speak. Get quality essentials and buy based on your own thoughts, expectations and experience, not what people say. Influencers are a plague.
One day at a time.
