that is how they think about everything, dear reader

conversely, you can walk about to someone who identifies as a communist, offer friendship, their brother is a finance bro, so they jokingly ask the roi, you say: 'you only lose a lot of money but what you gain is wasting your time together with me which probably also has diminishing returns as the novelty fades. also, i make baskets.'

and the communist would say: why are you commodifying yourself comrade. i was in by wasting time. we must throw sand into the gears of their cogs.

and then you say: can we do other stuff besides sand throwing sometimes? like can we be in a hammock together or i can be in the tree and you can be in the hammock if you like space in the hammock