#capitalista

Seems like almost any interaction I have with a business now is followed up with a request for a review. Who has that kind of time? If I have strong feelings about my experience (good or bad), I’ll likely leave a review, but for the most part, just…no. I gave you my money in return for goods or services. I do not owe you anything beyond that.

In many cases, the time I would spend writing a review would exceed the amount of time you spent providing the good or service. Are you going to pay me for my time?

Yeah, didn’t think so.

«La producción produce al hombre no sólo como mercancía, mercancía humana, hombre, hombre determinado como mercancía: lo produce, de acuerdo con esta determinación, como un ser deshumanizado tanto física como espiritualmente. Inmoralidad, deformación, embrutecimiento de trabajadores y capitalistas. Su producto es la mercancía con conciencia y actividad propias..., la mercancía humana.»

Karl Marx: Manuscritos de economía y filosofía. Alianza Editorial, pág. 123. Madrid, 2001.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive [...]. Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

[...] The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. »