[tivert]

> I was waiting for the punch line where the author gives all that sweet money back to the terrible system they despise, and finally washes their hands clean of it.

What good is done by dismissing the positive efforts people are actually willing to take, and demanding sacrifices so extreme they'll be very rare?

No one can actually escape capitalism, even through dramatic personal action.

[stonethrowaway]

It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes.

[ath3nd]

> It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes.

That's a very misguided take. The author actually took the money, and spent it in non capitalist pursuits: doing lower paid but meaningful work, helping organizations unionize, in a way using capitalism's money against itself. Nothing hypocritical without that. By the way, the whole post is about the author struggling with seeing the hypocrisy of realizing how rotten capitalism is and participating in it at the same time.

[tivert]

> It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes.

To whom?

And, like I said before, no one can actually escape capitalism (except, I suppose, through suicide), so there's no "finally wash[ing] their hands clean of it" which you are demanding.

Edit: there is a kind of defense of capitalism that exploits its inescapably: a demand to either 1) support it (usually unstated), 2) neutralize yourself totally to show your commitment (e.g. smash all your things and somehow live without capitalism), or 3) have your critique rejected as hypocritical and therefore invalid. It's a blanket rejection of critique that's obscured, so its unreasonableness isn't so obvious.