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@Heartiste just spent 3 weeks driving across America, talking to people. Preparing a Gab long post covering my observations…but seeing hundreds of cities it was easy to start to extrapolate patterns. Markets are designed to extract resources from men until something cheaper and more efficient comes along and the consumer enables it by wanting an ever expanding pile of cheap plastic crap and electronics made overseas. Slowly all the mom and pop stores get transitioned into adult video stores, and alcohol shops as people try to eliminate the despair caused by working at Walmart, to buy groceries at Walmart and simultaneously afford transportation, a phone and a place to live. The little money left over is spent on a vice that provides the serotonin hit they need to keep moving.
