• Dewey McBrewster
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    16 hours ago

    And did you tap latex trees for the rubber? Did you smelt ore for the metal? Did you buy the glass from a company that was used to can those vegetables or did you refine it yourself?

    No. The seeds came from a catalog. The hatchet to chop the wood from a store.

    Modern conveyance made it so you wouldn’t have to spend all day tending to survival. Yet the author seems to imply that life is harder now, than in the past.

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      7 hours ago

      You’re intentionally misunderstanding what’s being said to strengthen your own argument. Nothing you mentioned is “modern” convenience by the way.

      Life is harder now in some ways. The image posted is true in that under capitalism we’re subject to its oppression for minimal actual benefit.

      Do you know what pedantic means?

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      15 hours ago

      Im smelting some iron now to make my first car.