Flippanarchy

I will accept this burden.

usually, but if there's any reason, even one far short of an emergency, it's a coin toss.

if we lived in a different society, like an actual anarchist or communist society, I'm sure i would act differently. but I'm not sure we'd have shopping carts and grocery stores.

Gain nothing? How about self respect...

even though you gain nothing?

I call begging the question!

It assumes a purely capitalist worldview where the only way you can personally gain from an action is via monetary reward. I know I'm preaching to the choir here on Lemmy, but being in the US I think it's still worth pointing out because it's a full-on cultural disease.

Now, if you don't mind, I need to go spend most of my evening doing things that will seemingly gain me nothing. Omg what if I spend some money on materials I need for a hobby? NeGaTiVe gAiNz?!??

I want to live in a world where people return the shopping carts, therefore I do it myself. If you don't, you're an antisocial prick.

Return your cart and another that's nearby. Sacrifice a little extra time to...

Slow the Decay.

Depends whether there’s any Teslas nearby that need blocking in

Better praxis

Disable the perimeter wheel lock sensor and then put it back.

Back in the late '80s and early '90s my brother and I would run all over the parking lots while our mom was in the store, and return all the carts. We would see how big of a stack we could manage to get moving while we were at it. IIRC our record was 43 carts. We really wanted to hit 50, but I think that was just too much mass for us to handle.

I don't clear the lot anymore, but I do park out by the edge of a lot, if I brought my car, and pick up any carts on the way into the store.

Steal the carts and sell them back to the store for a finders fee.

We have these coin lock trollies here.

I made a tool that bypasses the coin lock so I know that every time I return my trolley I am motivated purely by social concern and not self interest.

I am 100% serious, I wish I knew what was wrong with me.

even though you gain nothing

This is Aldi, I get my quarter back.

Ugh, I rolled my ankle a couple weeks ago and still needed to do shopping that day. I was leaning on the cart to stabilize myself. I really did not want to have to walk the cart back to its corral at the end, because walking hurt like hell. But these memes, man, these memes guilted me into doing it anyway.

Always, because when I wear my heelys I can lift up the back of the cart and basically Tokyo drift through the parking lot and the looks I get fuel me.

push the shopping cart into the largest truck in the parking lot as hard as you can

I gain the satisfaction of being a conscientious member of society.

As former minimum wage grocery worker, cart duty is legit the best job on site. You get to be outdoor, doing something actually useful, can put on headphones and don't have to interact with any annoying customers. If we shame everyone into returning their carts, then noone will be on cart duty. Then they're just gonna cut the job, or reassign people into more annoying nonsensical jobs like pretending to stock the shelves to deter thieves or just standing at self-checkout doing nothing and being bored out of your mind (you are not allowed to wear headphones or play on your phones when standing at self-checkout).

Yes, I return mine because I hate the chaos. I even got in a heated verbal altercation over someone putting theirs on the curb recently.

Is it a co-op?

Always. Lazy sociopaths don't. The same people that don't use indicators, leave pee on the seat, and jump queues.