Transcription - Me seeing a 21 year old influencer buy her third house while I can’t even afford a sunscreen
The woman in the image is Katrina Kaif, a British actor who primarily work in Bollywood films
Transcription - Me seeing a 21 year old influencer buy her third house while I can’t even afford a sunscreen
The woman in the image is Katrina Kaif, a British actor who primarily work in Bollywood films
if drug traffickers (aka corporations) were the only ones in control of anything, then we would ALL be addicted. we’re not.
you can’t escape the fact that at some point decisions are made by the people who then become victims. the question is what drives people to make that poor initial decision?
again (and again and again)–herd mentality, FOMO, whatever it is that drives people to eat shit
take away the addictive thing, people will find something else to become dependent on
And why do people seek the short term high of addictions? Bad shit in their lives they have no other way to cope with. There will always be some amount of bad shit in people’s lives, but capitalism adds a whole lot of pain and suffering. Poverty is correlated with substance abuse for a reason. Even if you aren’t poor, you need to deal with alienation from the results of your work, lack of free time, and a patriarchal culture that oppresses women directly and keeps men from working through their feelings safely.
It always comes back to capitalism and conservatism. Individual choices can certainly help, but blaming the individual is an idea that serves the status quo.