[jldugger]

Interestingly, my local subreddit loves to describe Costco as a late stage capitalist dystopia.

- fighting for space everywhere: fighting for a parking lot, avoiding people seeming to ram you with their shopping cart, waiting for the extended family of seven in front of you to pick a cereal so you can leave the aisle, waiting for traffic to clear so you can _leave_ the costco

- you have to pay to get in

- and then you have to pay extra to jump to the head of the line

- fights over rare stock like pokemon cards

[tekla]

It's wild that you can look at a physical testament of the sheer abundance and affordability that capitalism has created for almost every consumer good, and people will call it a dystopia because they experience traffic or fight over the right to buy cardboard childrens toys

[jldugger]

I guess it feels less abundant when there's a million people in the store and you're basically in line to check out the minute you step in.

[daedrdev]

This is Costco literally suffering from success, they have had an enormous growth in subscriptions yet opening stores takes time, faces regulations, has limited availability

[jldugger]

Ah yes, the bread lines were a sign of Soviet success! Enormous growth in demand they just had trouble keeping up with!

[dang]

Could you please review and follow the site guidelines when posting here? Your account has unfortunately been breaking them in a few places. (Other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045387, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948554).

Fortunately you're a good contributor generally, so this should be easy to fix. We'd appreciate it.

[tardedmeme]

Would the world really be worse off without cardboard children's toys but also without people fighting over cardboard children's toys?

[tekla]

There is nothing about Costco that is causing the fighting.

It's entirely a unrelated subculture going insane about pumping up the prices of pieces of cardboard, and 30's-ish adults who never grew up mentally but now have disposable income.

Normal people buy whatever packs for the kids who proceed to play the game completely wrong.

[toast0]

Look, I get that everybody has a job and can't go during the week, but if you're going to Costco outside of working hours, you're doing it wrong. I dunno about fighting over pokemon cards, which like you do you, but crowding doesn't happen at 10 am on a tuesday.

[b0rtb0rt]

people on reddit describe literally everything as late stage capitalist dystopia