Eh. It’s a low-profit-margin store in a bad area of a bad area. I get the rationale, and self-serve shopping is a pretty recent innovation itself (only developing come the 1920s or so). I wouldn’t call it dystopian so much as unfortunate.
Even if Jeff kills every single puppy he sees we still have a chance to save one or two if we encounter them in our neighborhood
Jeff “allergic to philanthropy“ Bezos is an idiot but if we have a waterway next to our house we might be able to keep a bag or two out of it by getting folks to put skin in the game
(Normally I’d say “make bags cost 0.001% of your income so it’s all fair for everyone” but cheapskate richies actually might be reminded to grab reusable bags just to save a nickel, though IDK… Warren Buffet would not want to pay for a bag I do know that, cuz he eats McDs and pays exact cash change once his wife counts it out for him)
My issue is, you using a reusable bag is wonderful, please keep that up. However, it is like dropping a eye dropper full of acid into the ocean. You are not changing the acidity of the ocean.
Dropper being 1mL
Ocean being 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers
Bezo housing tons of servers, just to collect information to manipulate people into buying his shit products. Clear cutting huge plots of land for his fulfillment centers. We haven’t even touched the amount of plastic waste sold to third world countries or dumped in the ocean. Also their AI service that helps boil the ocean.
Everyone on this planet could be negative waste producers. And still the mega companies will destroy our planet.
Me paying 5¢ for a plastic bag while the owner attends a wedding. Sounds about right
Why can’t you bring your own reusable one and save the five cents?
Sometimes you forget it at the house.
Then pay the five cents occasionally?
Yes?
Nah, buy a new reusable one. It’s not like if they last forever, they need occasional replacement.
Not related to the five cent cost, but there are stores I go to where they don’t allow you to take outside containers (like bags) into the store.
Man that’s fucking dystopian.
Eh. It’s a low-profit-margin store in a bad area of a bad area. I get the rationale, and self-serve shopping is a pretty recent innovation itself (only developing come the 1920s or so). I wouldn’t call it dystopian so much as unfortunate.
No offense but then that’s just a five cent tax on choosing that store.
I stand by my statement and my reading skills.
Odd. Not even folded and subsequently unfolded in front of the clerk?
Just reading about reusable bags and theft yeah
Even if Jeff kills every single puppy he sees we still have a chance to save one or two if we encounter them in our neighborhood
Jeff “allergic to philanthropy“ Bezos is an idiot but if we have a waterway next to our house we might be able to keep a bag or two out of it by getting folks to put skin in the game
(Normally I’d say “make bags cost 0.001% of your income so it’s all fair for everyone” but cheapskate richies actually might be reminded to grab reusable bags just to save a nickel, though IDK… Warren Buffet would not want to pay for a bag I do know that, cuz he eats McDs and pays exact cash change once his wife counts it out for him)
Yeah, the thing I hate about these memes is there’s often an implicit suggestion that we’re let off the hook for the things we can control.
The moral isn’t “you can stop recycling now”, it’s “eat the rich, they’re fucking up the whole planet”.
My issue is, you using a reusable bag is wonderful, please keep that up. However, it is like dropping a eye dropper full of acid into the ocean. You are not changing the acidity of the ocean.
Dropper being 1mL Ocean being 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers
Bezo housing tons of servers, just to collect information to manipulate people into buying his shit products. Clear cutting huge plots of land for his fulfillment centers. We haven’t even touched the amount of plastic waste sold to third world countries or dumped in the ocean. Also their AI service that helps boil the ocean.
Everyone on this planet could be negative waste producers. And still the mega companies will destroy our planet.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html
Lol yes.