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Antiwork

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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

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Date Created: June 21, 2023

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Every day when I get off work and I go to a local gas station, I see them throw away a bunch of prepared food that passed shelf life. This is a chain, so hundreds of locations do this every day. Tons of food per year, tossed in the trash because it sat in the heat box too long.

Imagine how many people could eat that food. It makes me upset.

[–] 4lan 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked at a Dunkin for a summer and they had us throwing away two large trash bags full of food every night. It had to be 50lbs of food.

I started giving donuts to teenagers and an elderly Asian man that was always ecstatic to get a big bag of donuts and bagels. I didn't have a car to transport it to a shelter, and this was in a rich area. It was disgusting

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I once tried to buy a rye loaf from a local grocery store and the cashier couldn't ring it up because it was one day expired. I said it looked fine to me, but she said the system won't even let her.

So I said okay, don't ring it up, just give it to me.

Another guy jumped in and took it, said no, it had to be thrown away.

They were literally not allowed to give me trash I was willing to pay for.

[–] 4lan 14 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is so efficient though! /s

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

There are serious ethical problems with a capitalist system, especially when it comes to the necessities of life, but there's also ample evidence that other economic systems in practice have been just as bad of not worse regarding food security, eg follow the history of the USSR from the Holodomor in the 1930s to empty grocery shelves and bread lines in the 1980s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I view the problem as us treating a tool as a system of government. Capitalism is an incredibly powerful tool for increasing efficiency (real capitalism as in a healthy free market, not monopoly bullshit). But we should be using that tool to our benefit, not having that tool use us. We can use it as a tool without it being our basis of society. Also, capitalism is not self regulating. That's a bullshit myth created by elite monopolists. Unchecked capitalism leads to monopolies and monopolies are the antithesis of capitalism. We used to know that. We used to bust monopolies. We need to learn when and when not to use capitalism. Certain things need to be monopolies. Like transportation and the power grid. Since healthy competition cannot prosper we cannot make them capitalistic. We already need to recognize that capitalism is a tool for us to use. It's ok to break capitalism in special circumstances for the greater good, because the good of the people is more important than perpetuating capitalism. I think abolishing it leads to apathy and inefficiency, but worshipping it leads to inhumanity, and we're not even worshipping it properly because again, monopolies are not capitalism. Like all things in life it's about balance.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] Siegfried 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's already non profitable to feed people, that's why it's said that hunger is a problem of logistics and not problem of production capacity.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Food production is one of the very few things the US government has been handling well. We give out tens of billions in subsidies to farmers every year to artificially inflate the food supply and have a nationwide SNAP program to help low income families afford food. As a result, we produce far more food than we actually need and far more than we would in a free market, allowing the US to be a major exporter of food globally and ensuring we have enough redundancy built into our food supply that the US will be the last country to starve in a famine

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[–] nomadjoanne 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Labor has not conquered scarcity. Dear lord.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It actually has. The U.S. produces enough food to feed the entire world three times over. It's a matter of distribution and no one is going to invest in that because it's not profitable. .

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[–] samus12345 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Skoobie 21 points 1 year ago

Bobby's been thinking the deep thoughts ever since Hank stranded him on Mars for disrespecting propane.

[–] AngryCommieKender 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Bobby Hill is a based commie. Why did you think Hank was always yelling?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] sunbytes 12 points 1 year ago

Who is Bobby? That's Dr Arlen, the most powerful being in the universe.

[–] Agent641 10 points 1 year ago

That boy aint right

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[–] walnutwalrus 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

feeding people can be profitable though because then they can work (labor) to make more food

[–] TotallynotJessica 7 points 1 year ago

It might be profitable for society, but not for an individual capitalist.

[–] blady_blah 7 points 1 year ago

I really don't get why we don't have "meal bars" or "human food" yet. Something that covers all basic calorie and nutritional requirements, can be mass produced, and easily stored at room temperature. Like "dog food" but for humans.

The real choice should be a normal meal or a "meal bar", not a normal meal or starving.

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