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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tastysnack@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I was bought an expensive dress from a store that has couches in the changing rooms.

I've tasted the sweet ambrosia of wealth and I want more like a hungry vampire.

It has become clear to me that by seeing how the other half live that I can no longer tolerate my "tankie" existence and I shall henceforth be pulling myself up by my thigh highs and becoming rich.

My plan includes:

  • voting (hard)
  • virtue signalling to the upper political class
  • Smith (I'm not sure who he is but I've heard he has all the answers)
  • turning a blind eye to the systemic problems in our system because I benefit from it
  • reading the economist

Don't worry I won't forget you guys while I dine at gastro pubs and judge the proles for sharing the same air I breath.

I'll even mention you when I'm rubbing elbows with the elites in a few months ๐Ÿฅฐ

Now begins my upper class crumpet life.

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

you're pushing me to the right!

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

I have supped on the iPhone, and it is sweet

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why yes I exclusively dine at Miller and Carter, I fail to see how that reflects my political views berdly-smug

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was bought an expensive dress from a store that has couches in the changing rooms.

I grew up in the 80s and every department store was like that. JC Penny's used to be like that. Mervyn's used to be like that. Fucking Ross used to be like that.

I went into a Ross recently and there was literally just a small mountain of stuff piled at the center of the store that a handful of people were picking through like it feral dogs in a junkyard. The entire store was staffed by a single woman basically asleep at the cash register.

This is it, folks. You may not like it, but this is what Peak Capitalism looks like. This is where we're all headed.

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Self service tills in a clothes shop was a new thing I got to try. Wild.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The uber I rode in the other day was a Mercedes Benz A class and now I'm devoting all my energy to setting up a bitcoin mine in rural Uganda (I can use minors as miners).

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I always order a "Uber for Ukraine ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’™" car now so that I can tell my friends over brunch about my activism.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

I haven't ridden an uber in a long time. Is that a real thing?

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can use minors as miners

I wish politicians would look out for miners

And not just minors on an island somewhere

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat

And the obese milkin' welfare

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

People on the street with nothing to eat, so let's cut food stamps because the homeless are clearly small business owners who have been taxed into poverty by the Democrat party

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Don't worry I won't forget you guys while I dine at gastro pubs

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[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Well hello fellow bourgeoisie, good day for hoarding wealth ๐Ÿง

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I'm afraid I have read Marx too hard, and now I am gathering all production to myself like a black hole of centralization. Chapter 15 details my descent into the extremes of productivity until only I am able to perform all labor. I would monopolize the means of labor and make every single last commodity on Earth. From this throne of production I could make a paradise for Arrakis with the wave of my hand. Wh... wait, what was I talking about again?

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I'll have what you're having please ๐Ÿ™

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

On my upper class era by exclusively eating out at chain steak houses like Ruth's Chris' Steak's house's.

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Simon and Garfunkel's is great I hear just don't leave your children unattended.

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