I notice this with a lot of stuff, particularly the cashless trend, the removal of services and infrastructure (road access, public transit, payphones, post boxes, etc.), and even the removal of objectively useful business branches, like the only bank or post office in a whole town, or region, let’s say (a regular occurrence, where I live)…

These people a) live on their smartphones, b) are not poor (so they’ll never have their phone service cut off, and so will never need a payphone, or a fucking post box), c) rarely leave the house, d) do everything online, and e) think that EVERYONE is exactly like them, and that if they aren’t, they’re some sort of “anti-corporate Luddite standing in the way of muh progress”, which is literally what I was told on local subreddits when I pointed this out…

Live in a commuter town. It is very (generally upper) middle class, but I’m below the poverty line. As a result, almost none of those services I mentioned above exist here anymore, simply because “the upper middle class” here doesn’t care, and people living in the cities (which this isn’t) don’t have to deal with bald-faced corporate bastardry like that so much, so they don’t care, “lol”.

Especially galling when it is a government entity (Australia Post, the National Broadband Network, partly) doing this, while also signalling their “wokeness”, and giving the executives Cartier watches as “bonuses” (that’s a whole saga. Seriously, look it up). It’s fucking insane, and almost sickening, how “Gordon Gecko” they are…

Literally the entire “town centre” here is pedestrianised and “corporatized”, now. It’s fucked. They didn’t ask, they just did it. Even the parkland…

The whole thing is a fucking nightmare, yet the yuppie millennials around me have their wholefoods (literally), and their fucking “healthy takeaways”, so me raising these issues just makes me a “Luddite”. I kid you not. 😒

I notice this with a lot of stuff, particularly the cashless trend, the removal of services and infrastructure (road access, public transit, payphones, post boxes, etc.), and even the removal of objectively useful business branches, like the only bank or post office in a whole town, or region, let’s say (a regular occurrence, where I live)…

These people a) live on their smartphones, b) are not poor (so they’ll never have their phone service cut off, and so will never need a payphone, or a fucking post box), c) rarely leave the house, d) do everything online, and e) think that EVERYONE is exactly like them, and that if they aren’t, they’re some sort of “anti-corporate Luddite standing in the way of muh progress”, which is literally what I was told on local subreddits when I pointed this out…

Live in a commuter town. It is very (generally upper) middle class, but I’m below the poverty line. As a result, almost none of those services I mentioned above exist here anymore, simply because “the upper middle class” here doesn’t care, lol.

Literally the entire “town centre” is pedestrianised and “corporatized”, now. It’s fucked. They didn’t ask, they just did it. Even the parkland…

The whole thing is a fucking nightmare, yet the yuppie millennials around me have their wholefoods (literally), and their fucking “healthy takeaways”, so me raising these issues just makes me a “Luddite”. I kid you not. 😒