Commodity fetishism taken to a new level, you don't even need the commodity itself anymore

Let them (fantasize about being able to) eat cake

Somebody make a site like this but it tells you the billionaire that owns the item and where they can be found.

I pirate video games and movies for the dopamine rush instead and I actually get the games and movies afterwards.

Do I play the games? Of course not.

friends of my parents used to do this in i guess the 70s-80s in communist hungary. whenever they didnt buy a thing, they wrote it down in a book they called the "book of refused joys" and then they used to laugh about how much money they'd saved, when you added all that up

What's funny about your title is South Korean streaming companies got their government to pass protectionist laws that jacked up data fees on foreign companies and it essentially killed Twitch. So you can't even tune in on Twitch, you have to tune in on SOOP or some shit.

So basically like when my parent refused to give me any quarters so I’d just click the buttons on the machine and imagine I was playing Street Fighter 2.

Truly Hell Joseon

I know how to improve this - you also have to add your credit card info and pay 1% of the item, to make the process even more realistic.

Insane how people got brainwashed into purchasing total garbage with a brand name.

Yes but let's keep talking about how China making a teensy alteration to how their train systems work has eroded Chinese society entirely, or maybe we can at-what-costism China creating a new OS for their phones.

But this? No, entirely the sign of a healthy society, just a little kooky.

Whats this from?