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[-] Licherally@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Capitalism necessitates that the product and the profit are always the most important thing. We'll never really get rid of this issue until we remove the profit motive, and we'll never really see the full view of capitalism without accepting that these corporations don't care about their workers or their customer base at all. They never will, because that doesn't impact profit. They will feign empathy and sincerity until they have met their quarterly profit goal, and the public will clap and say "wow, finally somebody fights for us!" And continue to consume.

[-] LastOneStanding@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly. That was my point. However, Grindr just doesn't fit into my life, mostly because I tend to reject superficial stuff for the most part. I don't reject frivolity, but the whole dating app thing kind of makes me throw up a little. It's like gay.com was, only more modern. Anyway, "dollar voting" is a total sham that bourgeois podcasters blab about on their smarmy podcasts and write about on their maketeering blogs when they discuss their recent "retail therapy" outing. You don't vote with your dollar, or with the app you scroll through. You vote when it's election time. People are voting for things to just keep on chugging along as they have been: treat workers like garbage, make healthcare expensive and inaccessible, alienate the queer people, alienate anybody that isn't white, etc. It would just be so nice if all the people using Grindr would delete their accounts all at the same time and delete it from their phones. It isn't going to happen, but don't you dare keep me from making fun of my friends at the bar that get all in an uproar over their Grindr bullshit. I make fun of them. I laugh at them. I call them names. Over drinks. Then they tell me I'm just a you-know-what. And I laugh, and I say, "how many no-shows last week, babe?" You see, in the big picture, why yes, it's all about the political economy, how the system works, etc. In the little picture, in the personal day to day things of living an individual life, it's about sticking to your guns and having a personal code of what you will do, what you will not do, and what you have a conscience about. So, onward everyone! With your conscience!

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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