Malls and consummerism Being in the mall around the holidays, when consummerism really ramps up, is really depressing. I can't not look around and remember that all the retail workers are being paid a shit wage to manage irrate customers and that pretty much everything being sold was made by literal slave labour. All while fatcats are racking up billions in profit. A lot of people shopping just do so to fill emptiness created from the alienation that exists from living in a shit hole capitalist society. And i can't escape that or refuse to change that as long as I'm alive in this system.