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jlduggeryesterday at 6:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

Interestingly, my local subreddit loves to describe Costco as a late stage capitalist dystopia.

- fighting for space everywhere: fighting for a parking lot, avoiding people seeming to ram you with their shopping cart, waiting for the extended family of seven in front of you to pick a cereal so you can leave the aisle, waiting for traffic to clear so you can _leave_ the costco

- you have to pay to get in

- and then you have to pay extra to jump to the head of the line

- fights over rare stock like pokemon cards


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toast0yesterday at 8:27 PM

Look, I get that everybody has a job and can't go during the week, but if you're going to Costco outside of working hours, you're doing it wrong. I dunno about fighting over pokemon cards, which like you do you, but crowding doesn't happen at 10 am on a tuesday.

teklayesterday at 7:09 PM

It's wild that you can look at a physical testament of the sheer abundance and affordability that capitalism has created for almost every consumer good, and people will call it a dystopia because they experience traffic or fight over the right to buy cardboard childrens toys

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b0rtb0rttoday at 1:50 AM

people on reddit describe literally everything as late stage capitalist dystopia