Summer makes me wanna fight every ceo of every oil company in existence. Except their only weapon is a polyester suit (no tie) and mine is a choice between a lead pipe and a fucking shotgun.
Call me a radical but maybe anybody with the money to waste on this bullshit should be stripped of their wealth and have it used to build affordable housing units, and possibly also shot just for the sake of irony.
“But it’s important research” half of it’s pseudoscience and there’s no control group. Also, is it really living if you never eat pizza and are constantly obsessed with your own death?
I just found my favorite anti-capitalist line of all time. It's the very last line of this post. Capitalists don't create value, they control Capital. Oh my God is that the not simplest way to boil it down? Remember 60% of all wealth worldwide is inherited. They haven't been working for it for a long time.
Wow! I’m so glad we live in Ireland, where the tax evasion of one single corporation would have more than twice covered the social welfare of the entire country since the pandemic began (╹◡╹)
the owner of the company I work for just left for vacation for 2 weeks. this is about his 3rd vacation this year. he's kayaking or something.
In the last couple months, business has dropped off to the extent that we are all aware a layoff COULD happen, and there's a chance of running out of work to do on any given day and getting sent home without pay. two of the 5 people in the key frontline position have quit, so that's exciting.
Also worth noting that the only times I've gotten even a solid week off across the ~2 years i've been at this job are, most recent to oldest:
- Covid Exposure
- Covid Exposure
- Furlough (Covid)
- Covid Exposure
- Checked self into a crisis stabilization unity because of suicidal ideation
over the ~9 years Prior to that:
- Unemployed (lay off)
- Had a breakdown and managed to get short term disability for a month
- unemployed (had a breakdown and got fired)
- unemployed (had a breakdown and got fired)
- managed to have a month or so of total personal dissolution following graduation from college and finding myself with no idea what the future held in store
So, I’m feeling pretty “good” about everything right now
The fact that the government is so bad at helping the working class move up economically that they have a higher chance of doing so by being in a Mr Beast video is kinda dystopian. Not too far from The Hunger Games tbh.
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I’ve currently lost several hours of sleep over the fact that ADHD and autism were likely advantages over “normal” people in the caveman days. They allowed people to be extremely focused on tasks and to be very talented at their area of specialized expertise within a more community based society. Thus, these traits made neurodivergence “better” than what is defined as “normal” today by the neurotypical standard. It was only after the rise of crapitalism that these traits were seen as disadvantages or disabilities.
Why?
Because neurodivergence makes it harder to perform meaningless repetitive tasks like “normal” people in exchange for a germ-coated piece of paper with the portrait of a dead colonizer (aka founding father) on it.
How is the fact that neurodivergent people may not want to surrender to the hamster-wheel that is the modern office job in order to afford their biological needs considered a defficiency? How is it that neurodivergent people are told that sitting still and typing numbers in boxes or performing the same task ad nauseum for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is the most important thing they can do in life? How is it that society is structured around whittling our lives away with largely pointless tasks instead of bettering ourselves as people or AT LEAST having enough spare time to actually pursue happiness for ourselves and others?
Why have we devolved to the point that doing something you love is financially unfeasible in the modern world? Why can’t people make a living off of what they love doing and are often extremely talented at when other people are respected and revered for doing calculations around the socially constructed currency WE PULLED OUT OF THE AIR? How is that considered a meritocracy and not absolute lunacy? Has the human species improved at all, or were we just doomed to spiral down to this point from the beginning? What the hell am I supposed to do to fix it, or make it liveable?
come to think about it, the fact that lawyers are so expensive (several thousand for a simple case) is pretty shady... it's almost as the richer you are, the better legal counsel you are able to afford and therefore the more likely you are have the court rule in your favour... 🤔🤔🤔
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