When you commodify all the people’s wants and needs, you commodify the people.
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What are we to them capitalists but (wage) slaves?
Or, to look at it the other way round:
When you commodify people, you will commodify all their wants and needs.
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How do you fight against it?
My personal take:
No thanks! is the most powerful thing you can say. Don't engage, stop buying endless toys and distractions, build a local community, hang out with real people in reality, share stuff and be kind. Maybe blow up a pipeline too.
Edit: I didn't see the comment below, it's much better!
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This is why I became comfort not owning things
See how in the US we wait to potty train until 3,4,5 years old, while most other countries potty train earlier. Gotta sell those pull-ups!
What? No we don't.
Who does that? Most kids are potty trained by 3
Most, but the age has been steadily raising since the introduction of disposable diapers.
Many other countries have their kids potty trained by six months, as we used to.
i see 18 months, not 3 years.
6 months is absurd. Do you have children?
0% at 4 years; so I’m curious where “3,4,5” came from.
His claim was about the age at which potty training was successfully completed. Your chart is about the age at which potty training started. They're not comparable unless you provide some additional data about how long the training takes.
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When capitalism has commodified everything, then all ingrediences for a revolution can be bought.
All is capital.
Capital is all.