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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (11 children)

How do you fight against it?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When you commodify all the people’s wants and needs, you commodify the people.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

All is capital.

Capital is all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

someone read adorno

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would 'critique' capital end up 'reinforcing' it instead..."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

very true detective

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

See how in the US we wait to potty train until 3,4,5 years old, while most other countries potty train earlier. Gotta sell those pull-ups!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who does that? Most kids are potty trained by 3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

i see 18 months, not 3 years.

6 months is absurd. Do you have children?

0% at 4 years; so I’m curious where “3,4,5” came from.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

4 & 5 from anecdotal data - friends/relatives in day care. Those are outliers but they do fit the trend.

Around 6 months is extremely common in places which use “elimination communication.” The article I linked described this.

I don’t have children but consider myself both an academic and personal stakeholder - ie, I’ve changed a fair amount of diapers and I have taught parents how to parent to reasonable success.

I personally was potty trained at 4 - as in, I have episodic memory of getting Pokémon stickers as a reward for shitting.

There’s been severe regression related to COVID too. The school district I worked at had to send out reminders to parents that potty training was a pre-requisite for preschool - and many parents put it off until the need to send the kid to school forces the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

What? No we don't.

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