#consumer guilt

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I don't even know what to feel guilty about as a consumer anymore. I bought a dress today after not buying any clothes for over two years, but the brand is shein, but I bought it second hand, but I got it at value village, which is a for profit chain thrift store owned by a corporation agglomeration, but...

But it was my birthday and the first birthday I've spent alone

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It is hard to keep it all straight. American Apparel hates women. Urban Outfitter hate gays. Chick-fil-a wants gays killed (but only in Uganda ( so don't worry (heavy sarcasm btws))). Everyone uses slave labour and/or is all for cruelty to animals. Hooray. 

Okay so pretty random list of things that piss me off as a consumer. I am rambling. Point? Do I have one? I am not sure, but I just hate being a hypocrite and I want more transparency (a word politics has been throwing around lately, but mostly in regards to how corrupt twits putting federal/provincial money in their own pockets) and more fucking consumer options that aren't profoundly evil (in my humble opinion) and less sexism bs. Also more accountability on the jagoffs that purposely and systematically take advantage of the fact that 'universal human rights' is purely ceremonial concept and get away with shit they would go to jail for in whatever comfortable 'developed' country they come from, if they had the audacity to do it within their own borders (speaking now mostly of sweat shops and labour laws). That shit should be illegal just like exploiting under-aged prostitution abroad. Fuckers. Or they at least, returning to transparency, have have a big fucking warning next to their cheap price so I can know exactly what the fuck that flimsy top is costly the world (for drama's sake, but also for honesty's). I'm upset and I can't buy anything. I haven't even even touched in on my rage over the environmental cost of cheap plastic shit and bloody packaging. I'm going to go be a naked hermit in the woods and live off of berries or something. s. But mostly I am going to continue to be a fucking hypocrite, but continue to try to be a better and more informed  consumer.   Sorry,  I just have a lot feelings about human and animal rights  

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(can you tell I'm not really happy about going in to work on [what was supposed to be] my day off)

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simple love songs #9

in line at the bagel place I didn't know the words but recognized the melody, the driving rhythm of that Battles song I used to love

I liked working to it, too (back when I worked); it always made me feel like a machine, the perfect tireless employee...

whereupon I lost my appetite