Escaping capitalism does not remove capitalism’s influence from within people

Evidence

Much as they wanted to break with capitalist society, those who escaped from it sometimes carried its influences within themselves, like ineradicable contagions. … But because some of the members made so much more than the others, they agreed to a compromise: each person would contribute half, not all, of their earnings to the house fund. Even so, Weiss writes that any conversations about money were marked by “defensiveness, self-righteousness, inexperience with money sharing, and the fear of having to relinquish one’s most cherished comforts and pleasures for the sake of group amity.” In his commune, the first “money crisis” ends up not being a shortage, but hurt feelings when one of the wealthier members comes home with a sixty-dollar coat. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 163

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s core defense: Odell is not recommending naive withdrawal as solution, because she shows communes carried capitalist structures within them — physical retreat was insufficient.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalist economies chiefly shape people, not commodities — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 576; Capitalist realism structurally prevents the emergence of popular enthusiasm — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1855