Sex work is cool and all but it's also cool to be able to support your friends without it requiring them to give you pictures of their buttholes in exchange for money. I can't help but feel like this particular phenomenon is a product of a uniquely American capitalist hellscape and that maybe this sort of thing wouldn't need to be a normal occurrence in a semi-functioning society. What do you guys think?
I was just thinking about this the other day. Well, a tangent thought I suppose. It was about the way people go to stores just a way of socializing because they're so atomized and alienated they can't think of a non-transactional way to interact with other people. I worked at this place that sold coffee and snacks that opened at 5:45am and every morning, before we opened, there would be a bunch of old people out front in their cars, waiting to come in to get their morning cup of coffee. They'd socialize with the staff and each other and drive, presumably, back home. Just lonely old people paying 50 cents for a coffee refill and a conversation to start their day.
Sounds like my time working at Dunkin Donuts, except the old people came in after the morning rush usually and hung out for a couple hours.
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