the problem with anarchism lies in it’s ability to supply treats
That's a huge problem with anarchism, from a practical standpoint.
The authoritarians persist largely because of treat culture. And they perpetuate that treat culture by press-ganging one group of people into slaving away to yield treats for another. Whether you're a plantation owner overseeing the industrial production of tobacco and tea and pretty cotton dresses for the consumer class or you're Herseys or Coca-Cola using slave labor to churn out candies and sodas or you're some S.Korean talent agency milling through thousands of would-be child-stars in order to put together the next hit K-Pop band, the Fascists Bring The Treats.
Anarchists can't guarantee a steady flow of chocolate and action figures and baseball cards, because they don't have a brutal authoritarian engine of commerce that emits these yummy morsels as a byproduct of their profit-engines. Rather than an endless supply of treats, you're more likely to get a minimalist lifestyle of subsistence farming or hunter-gathering. You'll have lots of free time, but you won't have the surplus product of other people's labor to indulge in.
Yeah, I guess that is true. I just don't consume any of that, so I didn't even think about it. Closest thing would be sports I guess, or some video games, actually there is probably a lot of food that I consume that is somewhat difficult to come by past exploitation.
That's a huge problem with anarchism, from a practical standpoint.
The authoritarians persist largely because of treat culture. And they perpetuate that treat culture by press-ganging one group of people into slaving away to yield treats for another. Whether you're a plantation owner overseeing the industrial production of tobacco and tea and pretty cotton dresses for the consumer class or you're Herseys or Coca-Cola using slave labor to churn out candies and sodas or you're some S.Korean talent agency milling through thousands of would-be child-stars in order to put together the next hit K-Pop band, the Fascists Bring The Treats.
Anarchists can't guarantee a steady flow of chocolate and action figures and baseball cards, because they don't have a brutal authoritarian engine of commerce that emits these yummy morsels as a byproduct of their profit-engines. Rather than an endless supply of treats, you're more likely to get a minimalist lifestyle of subsistence farming or hunter-gathering. You'll have lots of free time, but you won't have the surplus product of other people's labor to indulge in.
Yeah, I guess that is true. I just don't consume any of that, so I didn't even think about it. Closest thing would be sports I guess, or some video games, actually there is probably a lot of food that I consume that is somewhat difficult to come by past exploitation.