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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I definitely have the unpopular opinion of disagreeing. As much as I’d like to employ manners with my grocery store, if there’s no corral within a 30 second walk from me, I don’t put the cart back. Most of my purchases are under 8 items and I usually don’t use a cart so I just carry everything by hand in the store and out.

    My grocery store doesn’t care about manners on their end. It treats me like an economic unit and even makes self checkout the most reasonable option. They’d have me clean the floors as part of the checkout if they could. From a utilitarian perspective, it makes more sense for one person to gather all the carts in a batch rather than each individual going back for their individual cart.

    The insurance rates thing is a legitimate point ( insurance is a racket, though. Fuck those guys too)












  • To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.

    My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.

    There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.