Has anyone connected all the specious abducted-in-a-parking-lot-by-traffickers stuff with the total disappearance of the abducted-on-a-dark-road-by-aliens stuff that was big at this point in the last cultural cycle?
This is how capitalism is designed, so its not surprising. It’s just incredibly stupid and morally indefensible. Capitalism is a failure of a system that never should have become the dominant system. Hundreds of years of slavery, death, and disgusting violations of human existence is all we have to show for it. None of it was worth the cost.
I assure you that “the system optimizes for the interests of large landholders” is not specific to capitalism and was a well-recognized, load-bearing feature of the systems that preceded it.
“extremely marketable and only slightly scary horror game meant for ipad children to watch letsplays of” is a very unfortunate genre to watch the development of
Oh I remember when these were like physical rides at carnivals
That’s actually a good point: Costco has famously continued to sell a hotdog for $1.50 all this time, but have they continued to sell the same hotdog?
@eurydices-ghost said: Independent of the quality of the hot dog itself, a possible contributing factor is that Costco has reduced their condiment options. As a kid I remember getting sauerkraut and fresh chopped onions. I think they still have onions at some locations if you ask, but without sauerkraut it’s much less satisfying imo.
