• spudwart@spudwart.com
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    1 year ago

    Well, her take may be poor. But blaming everyone but the person wearing the boot for putting the boot on your face means you’re not focused on getting the boot off your face.

    Instead, you’re focused on blaming a person, who is not putting the boot on your face, for your having a boot on your face.

    Sure, she’s obnoxious but why give the boots the division they so desperately want?

    • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The boot you feel is the biological reality that we all need to eat (and more than just eat), and almost all of us need someone else to grow/raise/ sometimes prepare that food (and more than just food) for us. Supermarkets operate on extremely thin margins, and so do most farms, and so too most food factories. Most of them would go out of business if they cut prices by 5%.

      People stealing from supermarkets cost the other shoppers around them, either through raised prices, or closed stores, if it’s bad enough. This is a major reason for the “food desert” phenomena, and why wealthy areas typically have cheaper groceries.