r/Anticonsumption

and parents and families gaslight their kids to believe that Santa is real to avoid their kids worrying about spending money Christmas is not a fun celebration, traditionally anyways it is all about making your kids happy not about avoiding deception or saving money and as I get older I realise how dumb Christmas actually is and why feeling forced to celebrate it is the ultimate downside ultimately we should stop buying presents and save money to buy houses instead as having a house to live in that you like is the best wish that anybody can have.

As part of our tuition in college my university gave me a laptop in 2012. It is still the only computer I own, and I’ve gotten it fixed quite a few times! It may be on its last leg, but I’m proud to have not bought a replacement yet.

All of my daughter’s clothes that she’s ever worn have been hand me downs or Facebook marketplace finds. Nothing new.

I have clothes I’ve consistently worn for the last 15 years.

I wore my mom’s wedding dress.

ETA all my dishes are a set that my grandma used and had passed on to my mom who then passed me. So still using the day-to-day plates and bowls I did as a child.

in 1867 Karl Marx wrote that capitalism would not simply use labor. It would restructure it. Abstract it. Discipline it. Turn living human activity into an instrument of accumulation. He had never heard of Amazon. But he described it perfectly. 41% of Amazon warehouse workers report being injured on the job. Among those who stayed more than three years51% have been injured.69% had to take unpaid time off due to pain or exhaustion last month alone. And then this. A US Senate investigation found that Amazon manipulated its own injury data to make its warehouses appear safer than they actually are.They don't just break your body. They lie about breaking it.Every time you click Buy Now, someone is racing against an algorithm that doesn't know what pain is. Someone is skipping lunch to hit a rate. Someone is urinating in a bottle because the walk to the bathroom costs too many seconds. Marx called this commodity fetishism. The package arrives clean and fast because everything ugly has been pushed out of view. Amazon's real achievement isn't delivering packages quickly. It's making exploitation feel like convenience. And it made us pay for the privilege of not thinking about it. That's what. Prime really sells. Made a video essay on this if anyone's interested.

Is there a version of Amazon that could exist without this logic or is it just built into the structure from the start?

Note: posting from this account going forward, keeping my other one(moresus33)for personal use, see you guys , my shift at the Amazon warehouse just started

I'm kind of new to anticonsumption.

Did you purge stuff along the journey or just hang onto stuff?

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He comprado y comprado cosas que no uso y termino relagando o tirando o donando, siento que apesto.

Pero hay otras personas en mi familia que quieren que lo siga haciendo. Compras por Internet. Supongo porque pedimos cosas juntos pero yo quiero parar de comprar, realmente no necesito tantas cosas.

Les agradezco su atención y consejos.