You sound extremely lucky/privledged.

Most people don’t have people around them like that. The vast majority of people out there are low level addicts for algorithms. Nobody in my family can control themselves and I grew up with two parents who were crackheads for cable news TV feeding them endless streams of nonsense. My folks were basically overgrown toddlers most of my life and everything made them throw a tantrum. And my entire town I grew up in was full of people like that.

I think the error you are making is you assume other folks have the circumstances around them that they can exercise control and discipline over their lives… a lot of folks don’t. Esp if they never had examples in live to teach them those things, or had higher education or income levels. Poverty and low income legit has different wiring in the brain and people in that lifestyle typically don’t develop their executive control. The fact I did, made me more or less a freak-show anomaly among my family and friends growing up.

It’s nostalgia.

People were just as shitty in 2007 as they are today. They just didn’t have FB accounts to publicize it to the world and they didn’t use social media to make money back then.

People don’t remember the past correctly, they only remember it selectively, and they super impose modern standards of living onto it. Like if people from 2025 had to go back to 1955 and live the way 1955 people lived, they’d be traumatized, because they have no idea how polluted, loud, and unclean awful life in 1955 was. They just think ‘cheap cost of living!’

Alcoholics also normalize their behaviour and shame everyone whose who isn’t an alcoholic as being ‘no fun’ or ‘lame’ etc.

How many people do you know in life who actually control themselves, vs those who just endlessly complain about how they can’t help themselves?

For me the ratio is probably 1:20

People can not eat shitty food and get fat.

but they’d rather take GPL-1 drugs.

There isn’t one. It’s not a fallacy. It’s simply that it’s stupid and wrong.

it’s not a personal attack. it’s that it’s literally not a waste of money for the people that use it.

just because you perceive it as a waste, doesn’t mean it isn’t for others. I’m sure things you spend money on would seem like a total waste of money to other people. maybe you drink a lot and spend $500 a month on booze, for people who drink a lot that isn’t ‘wasted money’.

so why do you care if other people use it? it saves them time and they have the money to burn.

clearing six figures for a couple isn’t very much in 2026 dude. you’re not even in the top quartile of incomes. you only make more more than like 70% of americans. The people I am talking about are make 100K by themselves at like the age of 25, and are making 300-400K as couples in their 30s/40s. I clean 150K by myself and I am poor compared to most folks in my city.

you can be angry about it all you want but other people have the money to ‘waste’. for those people time is the most limited resource and they would rather not spend 10 hours a week shopping and cooking.

if you need to worry about that kind of money you are too poor to use these services. That’s fine, your not the target demo.

The people using them typically make over 100K+ a year and for them time is money. They don’t shop in stores, they don’t cook, and they don’t do take-out either. They dine-in or do delivery. For every meal.

For people making 10K a month, spending 2K a month on delivery food is 20% of their income. It’s entirely affordable. They are also spending 4-5K on rent/mortgage. A lot of them are young people making 100K and living with 3 roommates so they have like 8K+ in disposable income.

I spend maybe $100 month on delivery, during the pandemic it was closer to $300 because I dind’t have the option of dining out anywhere.

You can find it outrageous all you want, doesn’t mean it isn’t a growth industry. I don’t buy first class plane tickets or stay in $1000/night hotels, but those markets are also booming.

it’s mostly tip, and tip is optional.

if you pay them a monthly free, like 10 bucks, you get no delivery fees. if you order like twice a month, it pays for itself.

you also often get coupons, discounts, etc. i use these services because I can get $50 in food delivered to my door for like $25.

because the demand for these services is growing rapidly.

where i live tons of people basically live off doordash and other delivery services. my own neighbors order it 1-2 times a day. on my block of maybe 50+ apartments, there are deliveries from drivers basically every 20m, during dinner/lunch hours often there are multiple drivers dropping off at the same time.

many folks I have met are spending well over $1000+ per month on these services.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use these services at least a few times a month. millions and millions of people are using them and many of those people are totally addicted.

I ordered it last night because I had to work OT and didn’t get home until 7:30pm, and I was starving. and for $25 bucks I got two meals worth of delicious hot food at my door in 20m.

welcome to reddit!

my favorite ban on reddit was when I made a joke about IG popularity of Santorini and the mod banned me because they had just gone there and felt insulted, and straight up admitted it in DM. Then reported me to admin for ‘harassing’ them when I said ‘really dude?’ and that was my second IP ban.

everything is feelings in 2026.

Why? That’s what american culture is.

We think scientists are evil and football players are heroic.

The only time american culture lauded scientists was post ww2, but that didn’t last very long and the national push for sciences declined by the 70s.

We also love rich and famous people, don’t forget.

The PhD process is so miserable and long that it will turn any sane person to the dark side, yes.

And if you stay on in academia rather than get out of it, well you’ll end up pure evil, but at least you’ll be cloistered and can’t really do any harm to the real world.

yeah there are a lot of weirdos on here like that, basically just endlessly accuse you of doing what they are doing and are caught in their own little weird loop of projection.

women dominated jobs aren’t lucative typically, so nobody cares.

reason we are so fixated on tech gender discrimination is because the paychecks are larger.

not enough women CEOs is an outrage, but not enough women garbage collectors isn’t. garbage collectors make a good living…

Men who get legit raped don’t get outrage and empathy, they get a high five or called a ‘pussy’ for not enjoying it. A woman gets allegedly raped and people want to roll heads and commit murder. The blood-thirst for Cornell case is insane… even though the real world evidence points to it being another false accusation… which is precisely why it was never prosecuted…

Same with other forms of sexual assault/harassment. Men are expected to just enjoy it and ‘you’re so lucky’ is what folks will say.

this a great analysis. Also why our culture is so insane right now. People increasingly live in bubbles of gender bias and they bias each other into horrible double standards. The people who scream the most about ‘rape culture’ are the ones most likely to have committed sexual assault on men or other women, IME.

And any male support group is viewed as inherently anti-woman. Which is insane.

No. Only way to not use AWS is to not use the internet at all.

It’s like saying how to use the internet without Akami or Cloudflare… you aren’t in 2026.

amazon is backbone service of the internet dude.

These are pulled from the item descriptions. OP probably bought something ‘for flat butts’ and boom it goes in their preferences.

Mine is literally just all things I bought from amazon. So yeah.

It thinks I’m married with two kids, because well, I buy lots of toys and things for women for the holidays… well yeah because I have nephews/nieces and two sisters… so of course I buy things for kid and women regularly as gifts.