> I watched the same thing happen at the grocery store earlier where a couple picked up a package of steaks, lamented that it was going to cost them X hours of work, and then threw them in the basket anyway. It’s like large parts of the population are on purchasing autopilot and the price barely matters.

I used to think the shopping mall full of zombies in Dawn of the Dead was just a hamfisted critique of consumerism. But after all the complaining and not much doing I see Americans doing I think if you reanimated our corpses they would mostly go right back to shopping in a literal sense.