What gets me is when right-wingers act like choosing your insurance company makes you a freer person.
No it doesn’t. Most of the time, you just get what your employer gives you. Even if I could choose, I’d rather not have to make any choice, and just be able to go see a fucking doctor and go get a fucking prescription. Unnecessary bullshit getting between people and actual necessities isn’t freedom.
The worst part is most of not all of the 27 varieties of ice cream have gotten objectively worse. They offer less of a worse product for more money than they did 20 years ago. So we don’t really even have that anymore.
This reminded me of of a documentary I watched about when east and west Germany merged and a lady from the east German side was bitching about how there were more than 2 flavors of yogurt (plain and strawberry) now.
goddamn communists tryna take ma moosetracks
Hear me out … what if creating and providing 27 flavors of ice cream to people IS some one’s free creative potential. And they were able to keep doing it full time after monetizing it.
The real joke is that when people create these businesses by doing something they like, all of a sudden there’s no time to do the fun stuff because 90% of the time is now dedicated to business work.
Never ruin a good hobby by turning it into a business. I do think that’s what the original post is getting at. Sure there may be a few passionate people (with ownership stakes) driving the creation of new flavors, but most people involved in actually providing the ice cream are just alienated teens with carpal tunnel.
The Conquest of Ice Cream
Even in the ideal case… what kind of freedom is the freedom to be controlled by your desire to eat ice cream?