I may be a basic suburban middle class middle aged married white cis het mom, but I AM NOT A SCAB.
Do I miss my beloved holiday drink menu? Of course I do (see above). But! Yesterday! Trolling Whole Foods with Minnie (mainly for bread cubes for my stuffing-- theirs are the best-- and a couple of subtle winter/fall transition candles (the 365-brand candles are also really truly the best and only TWELVE DOLLARS!) I FOUND THIS STUFF. Life changer, guys.
Yes, I get it. Amazon owns Whole Foods. Amazon is the worst. My tiny act of not crossing a picket line (my stores are not even actively on strike) is pretty much bullshit when that's where I spend my dollars. Does late stage capitalism/ neoliberalism on steroids make all boycotts bullshit? I think maybe. I guess I need to switch my allegiance to my local organic co-op, but real people who live and work in my real town also really work at Whole Foods and Starbucks. Bah. I am not as vapid as I come off on this blog sometimes, my dear friends. I've just sort of... already analyzed the situation and made a choice that might... be a shitty one sometimes because nihilism.
The coffee creamer, though, is A GOOD CHOICE.
My little consumer capitalist
I feel like all corporations are kind of screwing everyone over on some level, so we just have to do the best we can. We cannot, after all, create our own coffee creamers with our own backyard farms, can we? So we just have to do the best we can.
ReplyDeleteYou have never remotely come across as vapid. Do you watch The Good Place? Best explanation for why no one can get to heaven in late stage capitalism. No one in the developed world anyway. It's all so depressing, and then we can't even get a fucking peppermint white hot chocolate to cheer ourselves up.
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