Tfw waking up and finding out that the company you used to work for is bankrupt

Enjoy your online sales, you cheap cunts, I hope you rot. I can't wait for the rest of retail to fall apart under the contradictions of capitalism.
I only wish that we can all know this feel some day

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A buisness I worked for is also going bankrupt. Feels good mang.

You are like a horse that complains about cars. Capitalism, shmapitalism. Surely the shift to online ordering is a good thing for society at large, and socialist will not revert that trend. Traditional retail is wasteful.

cappie bullshit

You are bullshit. What's the point of having brick-and-mortar retail? It is only useful for checking out some things in person. For any good where you don't need to do that, it makes sense to order online. It is not the point of socialism to freeze society as it is, what proportion of human time is dedicated to this or that task changes, and the shrinking of old retail will continue, and it is a good thing. Producing a thing that is wanted is what should matter, and getting it to the person who wants it with as little energy expended as possible.

And what does this have to do with physical stores? Advertising is cancer and a lot of work in old retail is basically advertising: wasting space to draw attention to particular products instead of stacking them efficiently, people whose frank job description is bullshit artists and manipulators bothering you with fancy expensive cables that make no difference, pointless insurance policies, and other upselling crap. All this is working time, and to that we have to add the time of the customer getting from home to the store and back again. Try to visualize how many people work in a Walmart. All these hands, all these hours. Imagine these hands doing different things, becoming the hands of a nurse, hands reading a novel in a bathtub.

I dream of a world where each house has a big box in the front for all the stuff people order online (a lot of that in the form of subscriptions, which makes planning easier), and inside each box there will be also a fridge.

t. Amazon worker

Yeah, they said the same thing about the collapse of industry and mining in the Rust Belt, but instead there was an opiate epidemic, skyrocketing suicide rates and flight of young people to major urban areas

It's almost like capitalism is the problem and not the disappearance of certain jobs.

Because you need people employed in capitalism to keep cash flowing you dumb cyber shartmart shill. Capitalism is an inefficient system and if you don't let it function like that it doesn't function at all.

Urge to get reactionary rising…

t. Seattleite whose rent goes up a hundred dollars every year, because fucking Amazon is settling their entire workforce in the city

If the lives of NEETs are anything to by mass unemployment thanks to technological innovation probably isn't going to lead humanity into an unparalleled golden age of altruistic, scientific, and cultural achievement

t. "I want to live in a major urban area, but I don't want to suffer the consequences of it"

Have you considered working harder?

If anything businesses not going bankrupt is signal of capitalism failing.

Not only are we living under capitalism, but we're living under a particularly spooked and malevolent culture. Do you really think that NEETs are insulated from that just because they don't go to work?

No, but it's pretty clear that the lack of socialisation from work that NEETs have isn't good for them. I don't think rendering people utterly superfluous is going to be good for them in the long run

More like, "I want to live near my place of employment." Seriously, the people who work in a city should be able to live in that city.

And yes, I have lived in the suburbs, and there is no way in hell I am ever going back.

NEETs tend to be alienated. This is entirely unsurprising to me. It only takes a brief look at the state of the world to see why people wouldn't want to participate in it. I'm more bewildered by the fact that there exist people who aren't completely alienated.

As for rendering people superfluous, that's inevitable. Either we go extinct or we become like pets/children. Humanity will not be able to keep up with the rate of evolution of self-improving intelligences in the long run.
We will have to reformulate our world view to give our lives meaning outside of our roles as profit-generating machines.

It sounds like you have made a free and rational choice. Aren't you glad the free market gave you the option to live in the city?

I am talking there about socialism. Either way, whether the future is socialist or not, brick and mortar will decline further and there is no point in mourning that and getting nostalgic.

No you are, and the fact that you spout all this shit while working for amazon is mind boggling. Unless you're working otuside of their warehouses this level of classcuckoldry shouldn't even be possible. What does anything you typed have to do specifically with retail and not with capitalism?

Try to visualize how many people work at amazon hubs, and how many people drive the trucks to deliver dragon dildos.

yes and it will have a built in personal assistant and a display to watch anime tiddies on.

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What was so bad about the suburbs?

Try to imagine how much more efficient it is to have delivery vehicles driving along highly optimized routes visiting hundreds of houses instead of hundreds of cars driving to a central shop to bring home one item each.

Try to base your criticism of the system on reality.
Also you're literally spazzing out over nothing. Literally nobody in this thread said that brick and mortar stores must survive forever.

I have to wonder what a NEET can do to get out of it?

I'm not the same person who posted
From where I stand it looks like is the one spazzing out.


Suicide is the most obvious escape, although what you experience after that is completely unknown. If I knew of any better answers I wouldn't be so alienated myself.

My apartment is also near my wife's job. She is an IRS agent.


That depends on the suburb in question. The one I used to live in was full of drug dealers, had hookers walking up and down the street, and was in what certain people call a "food desert." It was a fucking nightmare. I decided to leave and effectively double my rent when my next door neighbor knocked on my door in the middle of the night bloody, beaten, and stuck in handcuffs after being robbed. Fuck that shit.

Oh, but I grew up in a different kind of suburb. It was in the middle of nowhere with a gas station being the only store within walking distance. It was whitebread and chainlink with a meth lab and a creepy guy who got the neighborhood kids to do child porn (he never approached me, thank god).

I am sure that there must be other kinds of suburbs, but every one I have lived in was hell. Oh, and don't get me started on the one by the paper mill or the one on the reservation.

Never will I leave my city. Random people smile and offer to get the door for me when my hands are full. The convenience stores are family-run and have salad bars, organic sections, and imported wine. I live by four trains, a ferry terminal, and a bus network that goes everywhere every fifteen minutes. It took some getting used to, but now that I have the thought of going back is terrifying.

That's pretty terrible advice honestly.

It depends on your perspective. If you think it's terrible advice, you aren't sufficiently alienated.

What are levels of alienation I have to watch out for?

Is it this?
youtube.com/watch?v=30HeJvE9KCg

Also, what are an anarcho-nihilists thoughts on this?

Let's go through it:
This has to do with retail.
This has to do with retail as well. What do I win? Back to your post:
The driver delivering packages to houses sits in a vehicle with very different stuff-to-people ratios in weight and volume than the vehicles of people who drive to Walmart to shop there as individuals or individuals plus family. Obtaining a basket of products via online order instead of traditional retail involves less work and driving. No doubt about that.

See most people think of suburb as more "modern family" and less "malcolm in the middle", if you get what I mean.

Sounds more like a scarcely populated ghetto than anything, jfc

Love to crack the whip on the proles for their own good. Builds dignity!

The "specie-essence" is literally a spook

This is true, but I like making my own shit and people complementing me. That pleases my ego. I also wonder how much alienation it would take for someone to not want to be in this world anymore, of if that's also just spooks talking?

Or is what I meant.

kek I miss Ed. Lke Corbyn's ok but this guy was something else.

You know profit excludes salaries and wages right? Profit is mostly going to be used for reinvestment and dividends which, given Amazon's business model, can't be too great of a cost. The workers and businessmen are fine, the only people "suffering" are their investors and competition.

The investors and the "businessmen" are the only ones that are fine.

The workers…

theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouse

Yeah, I don't think that TV suburbia has been a real thing since the seventies, but who knows? Maybe that still exists somewhere, and I have only ever lived in shitholes.

Not to piss in your pool but those kinds of suburbs exist and I've lived almost exclusively in them my entire life.

Granted, they're still boring as fuck but you're more likely to be attacked by a wandering forest animal than a dude with handcuffs

Holy shit a company going bankrupt!? How will capitalists ever survive this.

Kek

As an investor I can tell you that you are fucking classcucked boy

It's like lolbertarian ideology was made to brainwash the working class almost.