The normality of being advertised to. It's kind of extreme how okay we are with someone hijacking our time like that. For free. As long as it's a corporation holding our activities hostage and not like a human being in the room with us.

Tipping. Pay your employees a living wage.

My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk. General unconscious consumerism.

Similar question was asked pretty recently.

Reposting my earlier comment because lazy and don't wanna rewrite:

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

The expectation to always be available and reachable. Since the inception of mobile phones, you have to be reachable at all times and people get mad you didn't pick up.

Rapist POTUS

Bringing dogs into places where dogs don’t belong. No your energetic little puppy is not a trained service animal. Even more annoying when they walk right past signs that say no animals. Obviously the rules don’t apply to their little ball of fur.

That and people using their car’s hazard lights as an “I can park here”

Believing anyone who isn't exactly like you is your enemy.

I miss hanging out with people of various faiths, politics, and hobbies, without them hating each other for their differences.

It's so bad now that people go after me for my hobbies not being their hobbies. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I went around telling everyone they are awful people for not liking my hobbies.

OP your first paragraph is describing acquaintances. You never had those before whatever insta-google-tweet-face thing you are talking about?

Not being able to relieve basic human needs at school without getting permission first (using the bathroom, eating, some of my teachers even had temper tantrums about drinking water during class).

Attention economy.

Automobile dependency

Apoliticism. It's not a political philosophy I can ever agree with.

constant surveillance. Where we are, where we are going, who we are with, how we feel, everything we say, what we are looking at. Just constant needling to answer those questions by multiple groups at every chance they can for myself and everyone i know.

Like it skeeves me out for myself, buy for the kids in my life i am more enraged about it. Like leave them the hell alone. I dont trust the goverment or corperations trying it or that they wont let other creeps get ahold of that info either.

Drinking and gambling.

parasocial behaviour of "public people" influencers, celebrities(especially if that person is a shithead and you still try to defend him like you are thier family) they dont know you. falls in two camps, aggressively moniter online spaces of said celebritiy, especially if they are an influencer on thier channel(attacking anyone that challenges them) and the more extreme ones( the ones that issue death threats to percieved competition).

Hpotter fans, swifties, PEWPEWdie is probably the most recent cringe, why suddenly defend him when he appeared after years of escaping critcism.

In america, serial killers and school shootings. In Canada, geese not migrating.

large scale lying

Fascism????

Fiat money.

Filming strangers and posting them online

That the free market economy is still believed to exist and privatisation of utilities, commodities and resources is a means to an end to facilitate this for a fair and balanced status quo where the population will decide the outcome of their own free will.

We keep appointing or voting for leaders who represent the absolutely worst of humanity. I'm not sure how to change that but it might be worth looking in to.

Rape. (BTW, where are those files?) Wars. News for "one week" and then... they get "normalised" Discrimination of any sort. Live and let live!

I think friendships are different and varied as people are and you learn relationships as you go, but don't let people use you and if it's not working for you or not healthy to let the other person/people know. It's an uncomfortable conversation but it's important to recognize your own shit and respect people enough to tell them when they're fucking up & give them a chance to grow or self reflect.

More generally to the title monetizing hobbies. Leisure doesn't need to be corrupted or brought low by including capital into the equation. I was having a nice evening no need to spoil it with capitalism.

uploading images in ".jpg to .png" websites. If you upload ANY image they can keep it downloaded forever. Now imagine the amount of photos of Passports and IDs

Hypocrisy. It's at the root of refusing to take responsibility for your own words and actions. It used to be considered a serious failure and now we just assume it.

Fascism, the murder of innocents to line the pockets of the elite, the victimization and abuse of children, marginalization of minority classes to make a buck or rile up a brain dead portion of the electorate, gleefully poisoning the earth and rolling back laws to make it easier to do so, devaluing art and human creativity to produce assembly line soulless drivel, surrendering our autonomy and individuality to the surveillance box in our pockets.

Should I go on? We're not doing great these days.

Putting your shopping cart up on the curb/grass at Costco.

Look. I know about the shopping cart return litmus test for humanity. And in my experience, at the average supermarket or shopping center or whatever, it's usually not too bad. There are a couple of shit stains out there that leave their cart in a parking spot or anywhere else not returned.

But Costco? What the fuck is going on there? It's like the wild-fucking-west. It's lawless. I have seen people add to trains of carts stacked together in a parking spot. The curbs just have dozens of carts pushed up on them. It's like some kind of broken window theory parking lot where normally decent people see the state of it and go "No order exists here, and I will treat it as such"

Return your fucking cart. It takes like 40 seconds max.

Capitalism

Looking at your phone when you’re out with friends.

Specieism. Although, living a fully antispecieist life is only possible since a short time (being vegan was not possible before). But it is not normal now that it is possible for animals well-being first, for fighting starvation and for the planet.

Invading a country in the middle east over fears of "WMD".

And I’ve had people in my life who simply cannot do that.

I'm probably guilty of it, but the way my life has gone reaching out to people just does not come naturally and it's hard to overcome the assumption that it would not be welcome, or the intuition that it's something I am not allowed to do. The idea of people you build an enduring connection with is appealing, but abstract and hard to imagine.

Hate, way too much hate being spewed everywhere and nobody has consequences.

People used to live in small communities and have to maintain reputations. Now you can just hide in an apartment, order food and supplies to you, and spew hate all day consequence free, it needs to stop.

Alcohol consumption

To answer your first question:

Hate. It has been normalized. It should not have been. It’s an abject failure of our societies (and of our educative systems) and it’s a tragedy.

To comment on your reflection about friendship:

What you're describing as ‘mindlessly adding friends to a list of contacts’ is merely people mistaken the word friend for acquaintance.

I know a lot of people, some I may even enjoy spending time with as often as possible. But I've one (best) friend. A single one.

We've been friend since we were barely teens (now both nearing our 60s), we don't live in the same country anymore (meaning we can not meet for years) but we're still best friends. There is not a single other person on this planet, or at least in that somewhat narrower part of the population I do have contact with, I would call my friend.

I consider true friendship as rare if not rarer than true love.

BTW, this friend and I we’re very different on so many levels (our friendship began by us fighting one another at school). Even politically, we’re close to being the complete opposite of one another and we never managed to agree on anything in that specific field, save maybe on our sadness witnessing stupidity, and hate, spreading like fire and imposing itself in every single political group. Being different is part of the reasons we’ve remained friends, at least I think so.

We also don’t mind people not understanding our friendship. It’s a them issue, not ours ;)

The objectification of women

Internet.