• casmael@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you

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      Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo

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      This is true. All evolution has to do is make us want to have sex* and / or care for a baby once they’re in our arms*

      • not everyone obviously
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    Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, “Stay in school, or you’ll end up like him” all the while he’s making more than you?

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    I mean transport / delivery of goods in general is a solid job that’s pretty essential to modern society. Especially super essential items like food and medicine. I’d much rather a child look up to a delivery driver or trucker than a CEO. The capitalist branding for the wage-slave version of the job is a bit much. Its just another example of capitalism sucking all the intrinsic and extrinsic value out of decent humans just trying to do a job that benefits others.

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        I’m getting pretty sick of people blaming the jobs themselves. I firmly believe that’s another one of capitalism’s psyops to convince us we’re lazy and selfish for not wanting to put up with its bullshit anymore.

        I actually love my job itself, even the butt-wiping. Tbh the butt wiping has actually been one of the better parts of my job, because I get to help someone who is uncomfortable and unable to do anything about it get comfortable again. From what I can tell most people are actually like that if you make sure they have what they need. I find most people will try to help others as long as they’re taken care of enough themselves, capitalism just refuses to allow that. If we help each other, we don’t have to pay to be helped.

        It’s the capitalist influence that’s consistently rotting the heart and soul out of everything, not the actual work of connecting with and caring for other humans. I think the propaganda has gotten good at making us forget that.

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        It’s like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They’re all jobs that keep society running.

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      OP doesn’t specify, but I read the gripe as it’s a branded truck that’s basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it’s geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.

      I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don’t view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.

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        When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.

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      Just think what a massive “fuck you” to the universe it is to just suddenly cut off 3.7 billion years of continuous, uninterrupted survival success, from primordial seas of predators and prey on through ice ages and meteor impacts and the crust of Earth turning inside out… you can draw a line of survivors all the way from the first carbon molecules that started sticking together without breaking on through tiny animals huddled under charred stumps to early primates defeating their enemies to refugees escaping genocides… all the way down to you, personally standing there, deciding to cut the line.

      It’s awful but also beautiful, like dropping an ornate, delicate vase off a 12-story building and filming it in slow motion.