That is the slogan of my favorite energy drink, Rockstar. I drink one on irregular occasions, usually at work when I am tired and its busy. A lot of people drink energy drinks to stay alert at work.
Other people will drink a variety of coffee drinks from some place like Starbucks. The company has a large faithful following of people who will not only wait in line for coffee, but will pay $7.00 for one as well.
While it is nice to get a little energy boost when you work long hours at a boring monotonous job, (think of scanning groceries for hours on end while standing in a box), few people realize or care how these kind of drinks effect the body.
It’s telling that people will continue a lifestyle and alter the body’s capabilities instead of meeting their bodies needs and altering their lifestyle to correspond. Only in capitalism do people push and push their bodies and minds to achieve an objective that ultimately furthers the capitalists cause more then their own. Only in a society where profit comes before people would someone need to supplement their body’s natural workings. Only in capital society are people too busy to make breakfast but have time to stand in line for a $7.00 coffee.
In a society based on social production, you would work when you want to work, at a pace that is suitable to the bodies need. Production for profit would be replaced by production for need, the cutthroat pace of capitalist production reduced to an environment that is suitable for both the body and mind. I would imagine that in a socialist based society, drinks like Red Bull and Rockstar, and a triple espresso latte mocha vente sized frappicino… would not hold its addictive say over countless citizens who in capital society need it to simply get through another day.
Ps, don’t worry about me, I recently switched to the Diet Rockstar!
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