One snippet of my radicalization came from a partner of mine who worked at Peet’s Coffee years ago. He told me that every night when the pastries were thrown away, the manager instructed the workers to pour bleach all over them so houseless folks couldn’t eat them. At the time I couldn’t believe it
I hope the employees just said “yes, okay” and then didn’t do it. they’re not going to check
I hope so too, I know my partner wouldn’t have and quit shortly after. So sickening.
We need to start normalizing food banks. I haven’t gone yet, but I volunteered at one in my town and it was the coolest, they had a ton of organic food and people could pick and choose what they wanted instead of just having a sack of potatoes and beets thrown at them. I feel like if people were able to utilize food banks there would be more incentive/ability to buy local, too
Manufactured scarcity has never been as blatant as NFTs imo. So many companies openly bragging about how they’ve finally figured out how to restrict digital products, as if that’s a good thing. If Marx weren’t already dead, reading tweets from cryptobros surely would’ve killed him.
This point is unironically what ultimately made me start learning about communism. When I still had basically no understanding of politics I brought up how there’s more than enough food to feed everyone to a friend and he said “well if we did feed everyone that would be communism” as a dumb gotcha
