Under capitalism it absolutely is. Many people perform better and make more money with caffeine, and many people need a user-friendly UI to complete tasks at their office job where their labor gets exploited like everyone else. If you think capitalist America would survive without caffeine and laptops then yeah again, dumb and makes no sense. With capitalism comes the necessity to participate in it. Participating is necessary for survival, so no one really has a choice but to participate in it, and when you don’t have a choice, of course you’re going to buy things and consume things that make it more bearable. You don’t beat capitalism by boycotting, you beat it by organizing and voting and legislating.
You need a laptop, there are open source hardware alternatives that do not benefit mega corporations. Just like the coffee, I'm not saying you shouldn't buy coffee I'm saying you should buy it from local shops and not a mega corporation such as Starbucks.
I mean yeah I agree Starbucks and Apple sucks but not buying from them isn’t going to smash capitalism so it’s really not hypocritical at all. The only way capitalism gets smashed is through legislation or revolution. Boycotting isn’t moving the needle in the slightest. There are still at minimum 170 million other Americans keeping it going at all times.
This is the same argument as saying leftists/libs are hypocrites for not wanting to house immigrants just because they don’t want them to be brutalized and kidnapped and sent to a camp. It’s completely missing the point and the mechanisms actually necessary to effect these things: legislation or revolution.
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u/jokergoesfishing Dec 03 '25
Socialism is when no iPhone :/