Centrist Democrats like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom seem to think the best way to disparage Donald Trump is to highlight his departures from free-market orthodoxy. Good luck with that.

  • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I refuse to consume and have chosen to purposely live with nothing except my guitar. I am letting everything I own stay broken when it breaks and I refuse to replace it.

    You’re maybe misunderstanding me slightly, it’s difficult to covey tone via text. It’s not that it bothers me, it’s that you’re not Diogenes, who had a difficult enough time of what you’re proposing in the 4th cen. B.C… If you hate corpos like a lot of us, completely withdrawing from general societal activities isn’t sticking it to them, they’re already losing the profits gained from the business of people who they’re ruining by driving into poverty, or those who boycott them, and are largely unaffected by it.

    It’s a moral & philosophical decision, I get it, but you’re not having an effect on them or their bottom line anymore than someone breaking their hands by pounding on a stone wall. Living in self-imposed deprivation will likely have the same effect on you as anyone else who’s had it imposed on them, which is to say that it will endanger you and your overall health in a potentially significant way by shaving decades off it in a worst case scenario.