>Ted Hughes once observed that, during the couple’s year in America, where Plath taught at Smith College, she was consistently mortified by the presence of abandoned shopping carts in the parking lot of the local A&P.>”She would fastidiously herd up the orphan trolleys and slip them back in their places, muttering into her cigarette about the state of mankind."Ermmmmmmm based????
>>25166062unfortunately not
She passes the test.
>>25166325Wondering if a Roman patrician would have done this
>>25166325Counterpoint: shopping carts are not a public good, so why should their care be governed by the public? These are assets of a private enterprise, and we are not their employees
>>25166360I was with being responsible but then they closed all of the aisles and opened self checkout that makes me do unpaid labor without any benefit. It worked against the citizenry until walmart found people refusing to play along and willing to spend an extra half hour to go through the aisle with an employee ringing you up. They managed to to offset labor without pay and laugh at our impotence. Pick up your own shopping cart! Its an act of defiance to make an employee get it and they have no recourse.
>>25166360my problem with that litmus test thing is that it just says "it's the right thing to do" with no explanation as to why. There's a ton of weird social things like that to me, a lot of manners are just old traditions that people follow because they were told it's the right thing to do.I worked as a cart pusher for a few years when I was a kid and I didn't give a fuck when people left them around. If anything it was a nice little break to walk to the back of the parking lot instead of pushing 20 carts at once. If there were no carts to push they'd put me on bagging which was worse, so amount of time doesn't matter imo. Blocking a parking spot doesn't really matter either because there's always 200 parking spots. The wind pushing a cart into somebody's car is the only real thing that matters I guess, but that's minimized by having an employee gathering them. I put them into the corral myself just because it takes 30 seconds but I don't think somebody who doesn't do it is a bad person. Who gives a shit
>>25166360They are the assets of a private enterprise but used by customers under an unwritten contract. It's not as if you need to bring your own shopping cart.
>>25166341they'd pay someone a pension to make sure the carts are kept in place
>>25166325When I was at university, drunkenly stealing a shopping cart and riding it through the streets late at night, then dumping it in the nearest canal, was a rite of passage for every student.All the educated elite of western society hold a just contempt for shopping carts, and abuse them without remorse.
>>25168094>student
>>25166062Where'd you quote this from?
>>25166698>Its an act of defiance to make an employee get it and they have no recourse.saar
>>25168111It was a different time.
>>25166325I actually made a video arguing against this for the sake of arguing. basically my thesis was similar to the broken windows theory except I was aiming more or less towards the idea that society (or certain aspects of it) aren't worth salvaging if basic dignity isn't offered to those who maintain it.
>>25168263You're obviously not immediately linking the video and are waiting for someone to ask because of the unspoken rule about unsolicited self-promotion being a faux pas on this website because every single fucking cockend on the internet is trying to make money off people's attention and cultivate their own 'personal brand', and people recognize that, and self-promotion on an anonymous website feels subtly wrong somehow. Nonetheless as an internet good Samaritan and a fellow guttersnipe trying to make it in the madhouse that is the 21st century I'm going to extend to you the same courtesy I'd like in kind by asking you to post it, and giving you the excuse.
>>25168276oh I know I know that. my youtube channel got terminated thoughever two years ago and I don't think the server could handle the size of the video.
>>25168276also my mug is seen in the video and I'd rather not doxx myself.
