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I visited a flea market today - a big one in my region - for the first time in a very long time. To my horror, it was 50% TEMU trash - all sales final. It was selling. It made me really, really sad. People buying cheap shit online, marking it up, and selling it to their neighbors. Maybe there is some not-garbage in there but a huge portion of it is just going to fail and end up in a landfill in a year... and this is becoming normal for these people. Things just wear out rapidly and get thrown away and they buy a replacement.
We're killing each other and destroying ecosystems and the climate... so that we can make... this. We're fucked.
I hate how people always throw this shit onto other people.
Yea I'm sure Cletus buying shit at a flea market is what's killing us! It's not Bezos going out for coffee on a 747
People need to stop shitting on their neighbours that's exactly what the Epstein class wants.
We could all grow our own tomatoes jog to vacation and never turn on the AC and it would do fuck all for climate change.
It's the fucking corporations and fucking mega rich that are profiting by raping the planet then dumping the cost into us as if me taking 5 min showers is what the real problem is!
Every time you blame the average person trying to survive you absolve assholes like Musk Thiel and the rest of the billionaire pieces of shit.
I'm in no way blaming the average person. I am lamenting the state of things. I likely blame them less than even you do.
I doubt any of these vendors are living large. They look like they are scraping by only slightly better than the people they are reselling their TEMU trash to. People survive however they can. I can forgive a lot in the name of keeping your family fed and sheltered.
It's the rich fucks hoarding the wealth and the powerful doing literally whatever they want with little to no consequence. That's the heart of the problem.