I mean transport / delivery of goods in general is a solid job that’s pretty essential to modern society. Especially super essential items like food and medicine. I’d much rather a child look up to a delivery driver or trucker than a CEO. The capitalist branding for the wage-slave version of the job is a bit much. Its just another example of capitalism sucking all the intrinsic and extrinsic value out of decent humans just trying to do a job that benefits others.
OP doesn’t specify, but I read the gripe as it’s a branded truck that’s basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it’s geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.
I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don’t view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.
When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.
I dunno, I had a Alpha Beta tractor trailer toy and I loved that damned truck.
Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.
I’m getting pretty sick of people blaming the jobs themselves. I firmly believe that’s another one of capitalism’s psyops to convince us we’re lazy and selfish for not wanting to put up with its bullshit anymore.
I actually love my job itself, even the butt-wiping. Tbh the butt wiping has actually been one of the better parts of my job, because I get to help someone who is uncomfortable and unable to do anything about it get comfortable again. From what I can tell most people are actually like that if you make sure they have what they need. I find most people will try to help others as long as they’re taken care of enough themselves, capitalism just refuses to allow that. If we help each other, we don’t have to pay to be helped.
It’s the capitalist influence that’s consistently rotting the heart and soul out of everything, not the actual work of connecting with and caring for other humans. I think the propaganda has gotten good at making us forget that.
It’s like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They’re all jobs that keep society running.
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin
Step 1: Don’t have kids
Just think what a massive “fuck you” to the universe it is to just suddenly cut off 3.7 billion years of continuous, uninterrupted survival success, from primordial seas of predators and prey on through ice ages and meteor impacts and the crust of Earth turning inside out… you can draw a line of survivors all the way from the first carbon molecules that started sticking together without breaking on through tiny animals huddled under charred stumps to early primates defeating their enemies to refugees escaping genocides… all the way down to you, personally standing there, deciding to cut the line.
It’s awful but also beautiful, like dropping an ornate, delicate vase off a 12-story building and filming it in slow motion.
Unfathomably based
Eh I’m an antinatalist, but this is like 5 fathoms based
Yeah, I don’t understand the need to breed many people get. I think more people than we think may have worms in their brains.
Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce Lucidlethargy: “All these people having kids isn’t natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise” Evolution:
“Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?”
Need for Breed, now also on pc and switch
It might not be as polished as Need for Speed, but it’s much more exciting than the hyperspecific baking sim Need for Bread.
At least it’s not the lame Need for Beans
Hey, that’s a cult classic! 😠
tfw need to breed, but have no one to breed
It’s only a basic biological imperative
Need maybe, “forced to / constantly harassed to by culture / family / church “ also in the mix here
Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you
The last metamorphosis of praxis: become the means of production
gets seized by capitalists
And now we know why the Autobots started carrying guns.
In AI capitalism, the content is you
Just let them play Minecraft. It’s cheaper than Legos and they can’t choke on anything.
they can’t choke on anything
[cue clip of 11-year-olds talking on minecraft]
Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, “Stay in school, or you’ll end up like him” all the while he’s making more than you?
reminds me of one of my fave tweets:
“Garbage men and pick up artists should switch names”
No it’s just a meme about child labor laws and minecraft
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines
The funny thing is they’ll probably never realize they were just projecting their own insecurities.
Mine would probably love this… I’d feel weird buying something branded like this one though.
Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo
Read them The State and Revolution before bedtime.
You cannot. The children yearn for it from their very DNA.
This is true. All evolution has to do is make us want to have sex* and / or care for a baby once they’re in our arms*
- not everyone obviously
Box has better airflow.
Have you tried reversing the position of your case fans ?
Convert it into a potty chair.
Why would I? Work builds character!
Some even say work will set you free… No way they are lying
