It's actually not that effective. A car can drive for dozens if not hundreds of miles with sugar in the tank. Most of the sugar would get picked up by the fuel filter, and the small amount that gets through would probably not be enough to brick an engine. It'd drive like shit after a while, and they'd have to swap out the fuel filter, but the car would still drive.
Passion professions continue to get screwed under capitalism. If you go into a job looking to help people, the system knows it can screw you over. Nurses, teachers, public defenders, etc. You go into it for a reason other than money, you'll get shafted.
Watching football on CBS right now. The commercials are military recruitment ads. The network promos are for cop shows. The 60 Minutes spot is a puff piece on bourbon barrels (you know, America's liquor).
It took less than a year for them to go from halfway respectable to full fascism.
One of my coworkers is a militant atheist metalhead. He's also fully maga cult. He's been ranting about people saying 'happy holidays' all week. It's a bizarre contradiction.
Same, dude. Gave myself surface germaphobia during a plague that turns out doesn't really transmit via surfaces. I've made lots of rituals over the years about the objects that I touch. Hand sanitizer everywhere, cell phone sanitizer, gloves, etc. Went a little too far for a while, now I'm also trying to crawl back into normalcy.
Biggest positive change I've made recently is this: if I'm not eating finger food, what the fuck does it matter if my hands are dirty? I've got my cell phone in my hand right now, I'm touching the TV remote, I've got a can of beer. Not freaking out. I'm gonna scrub my hands like a surgeon before I eat this bag of chips, but right now? Fine.
Still got some hangups about doorknobs and sink handles, but I'm miles better than I was a few years ago.
I think it's kind of irrelevant if he committed suicide or got murdered. The important thing is that it was allowed. Powerful people (cough couch Bill Barr) made the decision to end his life, one way or the other, to protect their own pedophile asses.
Blockbuster generates 20% of its revenue through late fees. My lifestyle does make a difference! By strategically failing I am proactively participating in a concerted effort to expand this nation's GDP.
I would absolutely consider hiring somebody who walked in with a smile and a resume. Hell, I've hired somebody who did that. (He turned out to be a turd, but that's beside the point.)
However, I do a job that it seems like most lemmings wouldn't be looking for.
Please come upon my body, huh?