• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    5 天前

    “unnecessary taxi rides”? Who the fuck is like “omg hashtag bored let’s get an uber to the park hashtag nature”?

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 天前

      Maybe getting under the influence and then needing a taxi? In which case it’s unnecessary because you could just stay sober and drive home.

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 天前

    Buying lottery tickets doesn’t make you poor, it just means you’re naïve or ignorant of mathematical odds and probability.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      The stress of being poor leads to bad choices, and lotteries give a false sense of hope.

      Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

      Friedrich Nietzsche

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 天前

    this isn’t an either-or case. if anything, capitalists would want you to engage in those sixteen listed behaviours.

    i think billionaires have the same mental illness which hoarders suffer from but even i agree that at least thirteen icons of those sixteen listed are wholly unnecessary to live a fulfilling life.

    • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      Yeah, absolutely, they want us poor, so they set it up that way. Also, what three, cause I only see one necessary one? (Not counting the ones that say “Overpriced/unnecessary” as eliminating the good/service altogether.) Its video games BTW, and they will not, I repeat, not make you poor. Generally they are a very good allocation of entertainment money in both hours and fun per dollar.

      • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 天前

        Also, what three

        two for sure: video games and forgetting to look for discounts.

        the third one–which is more of i don’t know precisely what it says rather than it getting a hard pass–is the “buying … (clot)hes” which is mostly hidden behind the right edge of the big fat “capitalism” sign.

        • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 天前

          Yeah, I get that. Its probably buying too many clothes. But, like the mindset of this thing is pretty bad, these things are unnecessary, but only bc a bunch have unnecessary in the name.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    5 天前

    Ah yes. The illusion of freedom.

    Freedom to operate within the bounds set by capitalists.