Comradeship // Freechat

Reminds me of how some years back, there was a time I was looking into doing martial arts. Used to do them as a kid, figured maybe I'd try to do it again as an adult. Emailed some local place about pricing cause couldn't find it on their website and instead of an email reply, got a phone call and a subsequent voice message (cause I didn't answer the call for whatever reason) trying to get me to do like a "come see their facilities" sales kind of thing instead of just telling me what the price was. Which made it clear to me I would not be able to afford it.

And also makes me realize some people who are money poor (or hell, just trying to be frugal) probably are shut-ins more so under capitalism because of being priced out of a lot of social activities. I'm sure a determined enough person would find ways to get out and socialize anyway, but if you're already predisposed to hiding away, capitalism puts up barriers to getting out of that. And then like in the US, the car situation makes it even worse. So much of getting anywhere is a car, unless you're in like a big city design, so if you don't have a car or don't want to be spending on gas money all the time, another barrier.