Rage and the $100/month food budget

sus

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Conceptronica but for progressivism. No actual solutions, just progressive re-conceptualizations, keepin pace with the hedonic treadmill.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I've not been following this, but even if they're not starving, the poor are almost always malnourished and often live in food deserts where fresh produce is rare, cheap, ultraprocessed food abundant. Leads to chronic health problems, and then we get into the uninsured and medical debt.

Do you think this can be countered to any meaningful extent by produce delivery services? Some like Misfits or Imperfect produce would make for affordable options, I would imagine.
 
Do you think this can be countered to any meaningful extent by produce delivery services? Some like Misfits or Imperfect produce would make for affordable options, I would imagine.
Geographically, that's going to be difficult to make it pay in the backwoods, bayous, and marginal neighbourhoods. I hear Amazon doesn't deliver everywhere in the States lately. Better to grow crops and rear animals in situ. Regenerative agriculture. It'll give people something to do when the Internet browns out.
 
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constant escape

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Totally on board with small scale agriculture. But I figured where there are fast food chains, especially urban areas where fast food is the leading option for food, these delivery services ought to be available.

And yeah I don't know anything about the fast food industry.
 

thirdform

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Well, first, there's this assumption that it's people below the poverty line who are rioting and fueling the days of rage. How true is this actually?

Doesn't particularly matter. Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of Silver. The christianity that Europeans and especially Americans subscribe to has to keep reinventing crimes to disavow its founding communal (criminal) premise. Otherwise you'd have actual islamic fundamentalism in the USA. You tin lid morons went into panic when those trump supporters occupied the congress building. That shit happens every year in the middle east.

For the American psyche suffering is a moral crime rather than a relationship of dispossession. This is why you can only conceive poverty as monetary and not *absolute*
 

thirdform

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This is not a problem that one can solve through technocracy but through the destruction of mechanical and artificial work discipline, to replace it with a real, non-alienated discipline.
 

thirdform

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its solutions cannot be conceived by one militant or even a figure head of militants. It arises out of the confrontation of pre-linguistic material forces. First you eat, and then you speak. To protest one must speak, but that is not relevant. What is relevant is the historicism and in service of which history these protests act.
 

thirdform

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What problem is that third?

Alienation. You go to work but you don't know why you go beyond the I must cover the bills. Or if you do, it's usually a specific kind of self-justification - I love my job, I love my boss etc. The narritive itself cannot be used as an analytical yardstick, it's metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. It precisely cannot be concretised, systematised. Whereas alienation can be concretised insofar as we are talking about production escaping its constraints of simple production gradiants and even individual capitalists.
 
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You're about one steak away from going full primitive. Keep going...

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