No, the ultimate strike is asceticism and going without unnecessary shit.
Looting is buying into the idea that the shit has value but declaring that the people downstream in the supply chain don’t deserve to make a living off that value.
Looting a store doesn’t rob the producer of the product exploiting child labor in slavery conditions. They likely already got paid much earlier in the supply chain.
It’s just taking money out of the pocket of the local reseller who now is out both the principle and markup of the goods. It’s theft of distribution, not of production, and arguably provides a greater case for disintermediating the supply chain towards Amazon which is environmentally worse and likely worse for labor.
This is just rationalizing shitty behavior with pseudo-intellectual BS when really the ‘ultimate’ rejection of capitalism is reduction of consumption and communal support structures for necessities, not equal or even increased consumption while simultaneously stealing from one’s local community.
No, the ultimate strike is asceticism and going without unnecessary shit.
Looting is buying into the idea that the shit has value but declaring that the people downstream in the supply chain don’t deserve to make a living off that value.
Looting a store doesn’t rob the producer of the product exploiting child labor in slavery conditions. They likely already got paid much earlier in the supply chain.
It’s just taking money out of the pocket of the local reseller who now is out both the principle and markup of the goods. It’s theft of distribution, not of production, and arguably provides a greater case for disintermediating the supply chain towards Amazon which is environmentally worse and likely worse for labor.
This is just rationalizing shitty behavior with pseudo-intellectual BS when really the ‘ultimate’ rejection of capitalism is reduction of consumption and communal support structures for necessities, not equal or even increased consumption while simultaneously stealing from one’s local community.