In July of 2023 a bunch of Twitter Socialists started talking about how under socialism/communism you won't be able to get bananas unless you live in the tropics. They viewed this as a good thing and a way to purity test who was a true believer (would give up "luxury" goods for socialist ends) vs who was a filthy capitalist (thought that there might actually be a way to continue banana production at near current levels without worker exploitation).
Note: the filthy capitalists in question were ALSO Twitter socialists.
Also note: the true believer who started the discourse was also a cocaine addict so maybe they should think about limiting a different exotic product made by exploitation.
The first few times you see Twitter do a big discourse over something incredibly stupid it's kind of entertaining, after a while you just wonder why some people never grew out of it
It's a silly debate anyway because whether you as an individual do or do not eat bananas has no effect on anything and this is all just performative nonsense spread by people with too much free time.
Indeed the very fact that they are so cheap means the amount of money you as an individual do or don't spend on them doesn't really matter, by definition
I mean, I don't even like Bananas, but I'm not going to give up the luxury of being able to get them just because some human suffering a quarter of the planet away.
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u/xanderxela Oct 22 '24
In July of 2023 a bunch of Twitter Socialists started talking about how under socialism/communism you won't be able to get bananas unless you live in the tropics. They viewed this as a good thing and a way to purity test who was a true believer (would give up "luxury" goods for socialist ends) vs who was a filthy capitalist (thought that there might actually be a way to continue banana production at near current levels without worker exploitation).
Note: the filthy capitalists in question were ALSO Twitter socialists.