Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.

The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home

this is why it's so frustrating to see people pitch "make your own x at home!" as a response to poor working conditions in a factory. eliminating one person from the customer base does not fix the problem. "but if everyone would just-" they won't though, nor should they have to,

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

that's a million million btw. that's ending world hunger and poverty forever. multiple times over.