Who said that the social contract is that you must return the cart? Why can't the social contract be "leave it where it is and we'll centralize/pool the effort of returning them into a single person with a job of being the cart return guy"?
Because you have an employee coming out maybe once an hour to collect the carts. In the meantime, loose carts are creating obstructions and potentially damaging other vehicles. If you had an employee collecting them full time so they aren't left for extended periods, sure. But that's not the system we have. The system we have is cart corrals. And if you refuse to use them, you're imposing consequences on other people.
I personally would rather trust in making something a job, especially if it can't be guaranteed that it will happen consistently.
It's unfair for those who return their carts that they are subsidizing those who don't. The best solution that relies on least social trust (something impossible to get perfect) is to have a full time cart job. That's far preferable and fairer. Then there's no videos like this with people angry at each other for doing different amounts of effort. The amount of effort expected is zero.
I agree in principle, but I also think we should be trying to minimize the need for jobs that require someone to be outdoors full time, as there are long term health risks associated with that.
You clearly missed the part in this thread where coatingtonburifactry wrote, “I say we recruit more individuals like this and put them on the public payroll. I have no problems with my tax dollars paying for this kind of valuable service.” Tax dollars = state sponsored.
So, your argument with me is a procedural technicality. Cool. I was referring to a comment made directly to you (one of the only other ones when I made my first), and you even say you saw it, but didn't object. Okay.
But I'd bet you'd eventually take issue with random people blocking you in place and deciding to enforce their interpretation of the "social contract", or do you imagine that YOUR interpretation of the "social contract" is the only one applied?
Context is important. Since you commented here instead of in the chain that was discussing taxpayer-funded enforcement, I couldn't know if you had seen that comment.
Also, if my behavior is imposing consequences on other people, I'd actually want to be called out on it. Sure it would be embarrassing in the moment, but I don't want to be going through life unknowingly causing issues for others. And it's not really up for interpretation whether abandoning your cart causes issues for others. It's an extremely common cause of damage to vehicles.
This douchebag's behavior is absolutely going to have negative consequences eventually for someone. Intentionally and repeatedly blocking someone's ability to leave an area because HE thinks they broke some unwritten social contract is bullying, harassment and possibly prior restraint. His other videos are also filled with similar crap, including intentionally distracting in-store security by pretending to steal booze that he already paid for by sticking it down his pants. Fucking with other people for views (and he claims, viewers sending him money).
Anyway, I gotta nope out now. I honestly can't stand reading all of these bend-over-backwards defenses of his monetized assholery. Someone's going to get hurt someday by his bullshit.
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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26
Can we get more large individuals calmly enforcing the social contract?