My life, my few friends’ lives, my family members’ lives, shit just sucks all around. I can’t remember the last time I went somewhere for lunch and paid less than ten dollars. God, remember when fast food used to be the cheap option with somewhat of a reputation for being poor people food? I sure as hell do because that was like 10 years ago (in my experience at least). It’s so incredibly, incredibly fucking ominous to see that all the cashiers are gone and have been replaced by kiosks.
And part of me understands that this is just the natural progression of technology or whatever the fuck, but there are days where I go without talking to someone in real life. The same shit is happening at pharmacies, grocery stores, even Godamn doctors offices. Am I just being too glass half empty? Every part of this seems like a living nightmare and it just continues to get worse
Every time I go to one of the aforementioned establishments, they’ve added another camera or put another item behind a paywall. This just seems to me like brick and mortar stores are becoming high security centers in an effort to push everyone to purchase online.
I don’t think the downstream effects need to be mentioned here. Gee wonder why everyone is hyper-individualistic
I love this analogy, it pretty perfectly describes how I’m feeling, however my experience also leads me to believe that a massive swath of people never even showed up to dock.