My Chipolte purchased this evening came in a bag with this quote on the side.
I didn’t go to “commie” automatically, but I thought it was kind of an odd sentiment for company that pays it’s line workers minimum wage and works them like donkeys, so I googled it up and apparently it’s not well loved.
Reading nothing is probably better than reading my local newspaper.
I don’t like Chipotle’s food. Still, it’s nice to know someone is hiring social entrepreneurship MBAs.
It just stands to reason. How can you enjoy being well-fed, prosperous, healthy, and surrounded by loved ones unless you know that somewhere out there somebody else is hungry, poor, sick, and alone? The whole point of happiness is knowing you’ve got it and other people don’t, right?
It sometimes seems like there are people who really think this way. They see life as a competition and want to know how they’re doing in comparison to everyone else. The idea of everyone being equally happy - even if they’re included in that general happiness - strikes them as wrong. They’d willingly give up a third of their happiness as long as everyone else had to give up two thirds. Because then everyone, including themselves, would be less happy - but they’d be “winning”.
So I too hope that, in the future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, and all just sit around feeling love for one another. I don’t think it’s going to happen but it would be great if it did. And if Communism could deliver that future, I’d become a Communist today.
This link is the first result when I google it. It’s apparently the official website for Chipotle’s quotes project, Cultivating Thought.
Be careful: It’s quote 9/11, which means [del]Jews[/del] Zionist NWO fluoridation depopulation Trilateral Commission Bilderberger FEMA Death Camps on a sesame seed bun.
You want the combo on that? It comes with Freemasons and a drink.
Can I substitute a medium fnord for the drink?
If you look at the list of authors and quotations for the Chipotle bags, there doesn’t seem to be much of a theme except for these two things:
Hey, let’s get quotations from the sort of authors that we can mention casually in conversation in order to show what hip intellectuals we are, because there’s nothing more fun than faking it as an intellectual at a party.
The quotations are actually pretty trivial and boring, but as long as we attribute them to famous authors we can berate anyone who objects to them as being too stupid to understand them.
Sounds like deep thoughts from stoners
Meanwhile, in the present, Chipotle employees and management are staging mass walkouts over borderline sweatshop work conditions in their restaurants.
If you want to accuse Chipotle of being insipid or hypocritical, you’ve got a good argument.
But saying that you object to peace, love, and happiness because that’s commie hippy talk is nonsense.
Is it just the one sentence? Because if they wanted to give me something to read while dining, it would have to be a few pages at least. I eat pretty fast, but not THAT fast.
Yep, I remember a saw a survey once that asked: Would you rather make $200k a year while all your friends made $250k a year? OR, would you rather make $150 a year while all your friends only made $100k a year?
I’ll let you guess which option most people chose.
Yes, my little one…one day, when the capitalists are through killing all of the workers and revolutionaries, who dream of food for their children’s bellies…then, we can have a land that is free to learn, live, love…until that, we must pay $8 dollars per burrito to our comrades, who struggle and die in the fight against opression. And, $4 for the drinks…but, the refills are free.
What a bunch of phonies. If they’re really communist let’s see Chipotle quote Stalin or Mao’s writings, or even use a quote from “The Communist Manifesto.” Enough of the touchy feely stuff, we want–nay, demand–the real thing.
Are you bothering to read the posts in this thread and the quotations from the bags? They’re not communists. They’re a bunch of hipsters pretending to be major intellectuals. That one quotation doesn’t describe communism any more than it describes any other currently possible economic system. Except maybe in some far future society where robots do all the work, how could we all not work?
I just want to be able to order a burrito and have them make it for me without needing to approve every goddamned ingredient.
Once I find out they’re doing that, I might go into one of their stores again.
The math works out like this: 1+2 = Stupid.
“Though a use-value, in the form of a product, issues from the labour-process, yet other use-values, products of previous labour, enter into it as means of production. The same-use-value is both the product of a previous process, and a means of production in a later process. Products are therefore not only results, but also essential conditions of labour.”
That’s right. In your face, fascist oppressors!
Until they start making the robot-repairing robots.
Most of the people quoted are pretty old to be hipsters, and have a pretty good claim to being actual major intellectuals.
Granted I doubt they’re selling their best work to a burrito chain.