PeteFree.comUnfettered capitalism's representative sin — mail order frozen cheesecake
© 2020 Peter Free
31 October 2020
Laissez faire capitalism, ain't it grand?
Someone kindly sent my wife a frozen cheesecake.
It came in a 13x15x13 inch cardboard box. Inside, was an almost as large plastic foam insulating cube.
The cube — the kind that fragments on sight and volcanically spews foamy plastic bits all over God's creation — contained a large bag of dry ice and a small 7.5 x 8 x 4 inch cake box.
The foam plastic cube will be happy, undecomposed — in landfill or ocean — for most of Comparative Eternity.
Greenhouse gases that went into speeding these nested boxes to our (too-lazy-to-make-cake-ourselves) innards will do their warming work for many centuries.
The cheesecake itself will be gone in 5 minutes.
Somewhere . . .
A sense of moral and practical proportion is missing, in this and innumerable other daily examples.
The moral? — Unfettered capitalism is all about externalizing everything . .
. . . . that does not favorably bloat Capital Pigs' wallets.
This uncontrolled system's proponents will be dead before the ecological weakening, which they caused and continue to fuel, washes through their gated communities.
Why would they care?
Why should you?
Eat cake (or brioche) and be happy.