OP doesn't specify, but I read the gripe as it's a branded truck that's basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it's geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.
I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don't view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.
When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I'd be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn't have some small effect on my preferences as an adult -- but it was free.. I think that's a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.
It's like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They're all jobs that keep society running.
Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce
Lucidlethargy: "All these people having kids isn't natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise"
Evolution:
Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo
OP doesn't specify, but I read the gripe as it's a branded truck that's basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it's geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.
I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don't view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.
When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I'd be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn't have some small effect on my preferences as an adult -- but it was free.. I think that's a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.
I dunno, I had a Alpha Beta tractor trailer toy and I loved that damned truck.
Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.
It's like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They're all jobs that keep society running.
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it'd be bangin
Unfathomably based
Eh I'm an antinatalist, but this is like 5 fathoms based
Yeah, I don't understand the need to breed many people get. I think more people than we think may have worms in their brains.
Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce Lucidlethargy: "All these people having kids isn't natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise" Evolution:
"Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?"
Need for Breed, now also on pc and switch
It might not be as polished as Need for Speed, but it's much more exciting than the hyperspecific baking sim Need for Bread.
At least it's not the lame Need for Beans
Hey, that's a cult classic! 😠
tfw need to breed, but have no one to breed
It’s only a basic biological imperative
Need maybe, “forced to / constantly harassed to by culture / family / church “ also in the mix here
Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you
The last metamorphosis of praxis: become the means of production
gets seized by capitalists
And now we know why the Autobots started carrying guns.
In AI capitalism, the content is you
Just let them play Minecraft. It's cheaper than Legos and they can't choke on anything.
Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, "Stay in school, or you'll end up like him" all the while he's making more than you?
reminds me of one of my fave tweets:
"Garbage men and pick up artists should switch names"
No it's just a meme about child labor laws and minecraft
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines
The funny thing is they'll probably never realize they were just projecting their own insecurities.
Mine would probably love this... I'd feel weird buying something branded like this one though.
Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo
Read them The State and Revolution before bedtime.
You cannot. The children yearn for it from their very DNA.
This is true. All evolution has to do is make us want to have sex* and / or care for a baby once they’re in our arms*
Box has better airflow.
Have you tried reversing the position of your case fans ?
Convert it into a potty chair.
https://poopsenders.com/
Why would I? Work builds character!
Some even say work will set you free... No way they are lying