ITT: Post things that piss you off about capitalism

I live in a city with almost 20 million people. I don't think it is really efficient.

Too many breeders.

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Well it is.

More like people wouldn't have a clue that reasoning came from them and would dismiss it out of hand.

capitalism is mean

Try growing up in a commie block you ungrateful fucks! Where there are people on top of you. And below you. And to the left to you. And to the right of you. And privacy is non existent and the common area where you're supposed to play is covered in cigarette butts and heroin needles and empty beer cans because it's the common area and it's not their problem to clean it.

t. Grew up in a commie block

we aren't tankies, fuck off

The religious dedication it gives people, to a game they're not even playing.

Sounds like my fucking apartment and town. Stop meming anyways.

Do you live in a city or in a "city".

Cities are not

those are suburbs, the supposed "better option".

Western europe is exactly the same, its not just "commie blocks", its a common feature of shitty quick to build mass housing. Stop thinking this board is exclusively american.

Or they could leave emigrate…

Capitalist culture…"emotionally complex" songs about relationships with ZERO emotional intensity…at least 1990s rap and punk had intensity…what ever happened to "love songs", along with hate songs?

"I love the way you lie" what a bunch of pseudo-edgy bullshit.

The Beatles. 1990s Gangsta rap. Love music. Hate music. Both had emotion. This "emotionally complex" crap has no actual emotion.

Suburbs are the most reactionary form of housing ever. It used to be that you were either an urban worker or a rural worker, but if you were rich you could buy a nice home on a hill outside the city and get away from all those dirty poors. Then after WWII we decided to subsidize and sell that way of life en masse to the boomers. I suspect it was a deliberate plan to invent the new 'middle class,' a class which owned property, their own homes, in order to divide them from the renting urban proletariat. Not to mention separating white families from those dastardly darkies who work in the factory downtown.

And then of course there's the environmental impact; spread out suburbs are incredibly wasteful, adversely impact water drainage, and almost require car ownership in order to get anywhere. I will admit that suburbs can be a nice place to live but they'll be the first places left to rot once we run out of cheap gas.

Sounds a lot like where I grew up in Chicago.

The thing that pisses me off most about capitalism is just how badly basic resources are distributed. I'm sick of watching friends risking losing their home or being evicted. I keep needing to pay for fucking food so people can eat on a regular basis. This is something that happens over and over, but there is no lack of available housing or food in the US.

I remember flying over central US (from northeast) and was amazed at how surreal all the neighborhoods looked. It was fucking unsettling.

I'm pretty sure popular music has always been about shitty love songs, have you seen top 40 US and UK charts since the 60s?

Rock and rap (the non sex/love orientated kind) have only ever garnered cult appeal during and after their peak (I say peak loosely as nostalgia seems to give people rose-tinted vision on the past when such music was never really popular), which they continue to thrive on whilst most pop music is transient and will continue to dominate.

The suburb sprawl is scientifically proven to ruin people's mental and physical health. And it's largely foisted upon middle class workers, not "rich white kids." The really rich people live in big cities like NYC, San Francisco, and Boston (in America). That's because they recognize urban living is better.

that's because of capitalism, kiddo.

private control of the means of production tbh

That's better than renting a shitty tiny room with poor sound isolation and sharing the kitchen and bathroom with 5-6 other adults despite working full time in the UK.

Having said that I can imagine poor full time working Americans must live in absolute destitution compared to me I would like to think, at least I have free healthcare.

The consumer culture, pollution, and probably the contribution overpopulation. All in all, the complete disregard for for environment, biodiversity, and the such which has earth's life support systems in decline.

Also, the free market bullshit that will never get us to space exploration or the creation sustainable technologies. Unequal opportunity. Car enthusiast.

I hate the alienation and how the workers subsidize the owner class, typical socialist stuff, but one of the most striking things is just how purposely fake and cheap and profit-oriented everything is.

* Software companies like Microsoft with their consumer/enterprise operating systems with functionality removed from the cheaper versions to try and get more money.

* Appliance manufacturers like GE who pump out expensive refrigerators designed to fail right after the warranty runs out. Car manufactures do the same shit too.

* Clothing manufacturers who sell pre-worn clothes for more money than the non-worn clothes.

* Advertising and product placement in all of its forms, and how it's increasingly spreading everywhere, like with loud video commercials that you can't turn off at gas pumps, or "suggested apps" in the start menu on windows 10.

Really, most shitty capitalist profit-making tactics just drive me up the fucking wall.

I'm not a treehugger by any measure, but I am terribly disgusted by fake plants, specially this piece of shit right here.

It's truly the ultimate form of consumable capitalist ideology. The grass is greener next door, but not with this astroturf shiet, everyone's grass is perpetually "greenest" without the hassle of actually caring about the plants themselves. Why even bother in putting this shit up? not only is it tacky as shit, it's also pointless.

I'm conceptualizing a story right now and the main character's contempt towards Astroturf is going to be a central theme. THAT's how much I hate it.

food waste. So much food gets thrown out every year because giving it away to hungry people would hurt muh profits

Obviously a lot of things piss me off about it.
But I guess this thread is for more personal irritations.

drugs are so friggen expensive

My gott, artificial plants are like coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol and so on… *sniff* .

The metropolitan system as a whole, the network that connects the urban, suburban, and rural is one of the most alienating factors in modern life. It connects vast areas and people, all while keeping the people almost completely aliened from each other. This alienation is not an inherent trait of urban life, it is an effect of modern capitalist society and the space it occupies.

It would be better for the environment than the water it would take to wet everyone's lawns.

The best example of capitalism. Nearly half of all food produced in this country goes straight into the trash, meanwhile 1 in 6 children suffer from lack of food security. The ruthless pursuit of profit prevents the obvious solution from happening.

I wish I was a giant so I could just scoop up the land and roll the suburbs up like a rug. Such a wasteful use of land.

it's okay guys, the free market will fix it

The carbon footprint of producing plastic shit that rots in a gorillion years is better than a patch of organic grass that produces oxygen and remains within the hyrdrological cycle?

I'm no expert but I'm gonna have to ask you to back up that claim.

Are those pictures of cells or horrific wastelands infested with alien fungi?

Why can't these savages evolve as a culture and catch up to us sophisticated, peaceful people of the west? I mean, it's 2016.

They're pits of runoff blood, feces, and other various wastes from industrial farming.

Good thing I wasn't planning on eating.

Fucking hell, that's just disgusting.

Okay, I have no claim, and maybe xeriscaping is better, but at least with astroturf there's no incentive to spray toxic weed killers at the ground. Plus the astroturf could be made of recycled material.

What's that from?

Grass is a carbon sink; animal agriculture businesses don't care and people mow their lawns and preventing metric tons of carbon from being absorbed into the soil. Fake plastic grass would just make things worse

Just get a cactus.

You don't have a life cause you have to work to have money to survive but no time to live or not work and have all the time in the world to live but no money to survive.

And you are not allowed to complain or want another system. You want to blame someone? Here! Blame persons or families or races or whatever, but never the system itself.

And always be an individual, but like everyone else and don't question things cause we have democracy and communism is tottalitarian so now shut up you commie scum…

I realy hate capitalism…

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