#hypercapitalism

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Support continues to grow in North America for the concept of a standardized, four-day work week — and not only among the exhausted, overwhelmed employees who could use another day off to rest or, you know, do life stuff.

A recent survey conducted by the recruitment agency Robert Half Canada found that 91 per cent of senior managers across a variety of organizations with more than 20 employees were in favour of "some type of four-day work week."

Of the 1,449 managers surveyed, 45 per cent supported the idea of a "compressed" work week, in which their teams would work 10 hours a day for four consecutive days. Approximately 43 per cent of managers preferred the idea of a four-day, 32-hour work week, where employees work eight hours per day as usual, but still get three days off every weekend.

When asked if they supported the idea of a four-day work week with alternating days off, only 31 per cent of managers answered yes, suggesting that a "long weekend"-type model would be more popular among employers than a complicated, rotating "here's who works which days this week" situation. [...]

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#cdnpoli #workers' rights #capitalism #hypercapitalism #overworking

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Welcome to another episode of Media Outlets Publishing Their “Most Hated” Words Of The Past Year And Pretending Their Judgements Don’t Reek Of Bigotry And Irrational Fear Of The Youths!

#linguistics #language #sociolinguistics #watch for code words like ‘urban slang’ or ‘gen z words’ or ‘culture war’ or ‘ruining the english language’ #language and power #language and culture #langblr #semantics #semiotics #memes #communication #T.R.A.S.H. #hypercapitalism #ageism #superiority complex #happy new year

[kenyatta]

I am not referring to the direction of time. I am thinking, rather, of the psychological perception, which emerged in the cultural situation of progressive modernity, the cultural expectations that were fabricated during the long period of modern civilization, reaching a peak after the Second World War. These expectations were shaped in the conceptual frameworks of an ever progressing development, albeit through different methodologies: the Hegel-Marxist mythology of Aufhebung and founding of the new totality of Communism; the bourgeois mythology of a linear development of welfare and democracy; the technocratic mythology of the all-encompassing power of scientific knowledge; and so on. My generation grew up at the peak of this mythological temporalization, and it is very difficult, maybe impossible, to get rid of it, and look at reality without this kind of temporal lens. I’ll never be able to live in accordance with the new reality, no matter how evident, unmistakable, or even dazzling its social planetary trends.

- After The Future by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, 2011

#perception #hypercapitalism #the slow cancellation of the future #franco berardi #futurism #marketization #progress #modernity

[fashionlandscapeblog]

The American personal data collection company Acxiom advertises its services with the offer of a "360-degree view of your customers." The company gathers data on a consumer's behavior, marital status, job, hobbies, living standard and income. The algorithms applied are not that different to those of the National Security Agency.

Acxiom divides people into 70 categories based on economic parameters alone. The group that has very little in customer worth is called "waste."

"Big Data" enables prediction of human responses and the future, therefore, can be manipulated accordingly. Big Data has the ability to turn people into puppets. Big Data generates knowledge that enables ruling power. And it is Big Data that makes it possible to access and manipulate the human psyche without the affected person being aware of it. Big Data essentially spells the end of free will.

Today's politicians are asked to curtail the practice of collecting personal data of constituents in light of the danger this practice holds. Credit scoring companies have discriminatory power. The mere idea of economically evaluating a person goes against the ideal of human dignity. No one should be degraded to being an object of algorithm-based evaluation.

― Byung-Chul Han, Article translated here for Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 05, 2016

#Byung-Chul Han #philosophy #big data #acxiom #politics #totalitarianism #hypercapitalism #capitalism #neoliberalism #social media #facebook #instagram #surveillance state #mass surveillance

[laziestgirlintown]

So, how many post-apocalypses have you read in which characters remember a day/week/month/year that's exactly like the one we're having now?

#first world #third world #i've got several dozen only from the last few years #post apocalypse #to hell in a handbasket #everything counts #climate catastrophe #fascism #war #abolition of rights #alienation #hypercapitalism #incl thinking can sell out and still survive #nope #one planet #no planet b #shit situation cw

[lilithsaintcrow]

“A common idea of distraction presupposes that you’re turning away from something more important that you ought to be paying attention to instead. And you ought to be working all the time."

#distraction #hypercapitalism #gustave flaubert

[temporaryorbit]

#surveillance capitalism #spyware #artificial intelligence #machine learning #hypercapitalism #animation #monopolies #corporatocracy

[hug-your-face]

I find this song from the late 1980s oddly moving. We may stare into a handheld glowing rectangle these days instead of into a "little blue tube," but much of this is disturbingly relevant 34 years later.

Full lyrics under the cut.

I watch the skies, come in disguise Got to take more pills (keep the lid on my life) I got a little blue tube to give me my views Of a world in discord (my mind's unmoved) My nightmare scene's on TV screens Data uncertain (information still being received!) No deposit, no return No deposit, no return Win a trip to Mars, you can glow in the dark And it's the age of the plane (I'm gonna go by car) Run the red light, cower in the flashlight No time's enough to hide from the half-life Fly sky high with my ghetto blaster Tune in, turn on, to the latest disaster It's the land of do-as-you-please, and I'm king (I gotta get me some, I gotta get me some)

This is the day and this is the hour We need a power This is this, this ain't something else The fuses have been lit This is the day and this is the hour We need a power This is this, this ain't something else The fuses have been lit

Here come the dreams (that are split at the seams) Better sew the sides, better get them dry-cleaned Clears your head, clears your throat (Buy now, pay later!) It's the sensible vote Not built to last, but built to burn (Contribute! Contribute!) Send all you earn (No deposit, no return) No deposit, no return Health and happiness guaranteed Free seven-day trial (It's all you need!) Every hour on the hour (This is the voice of fate) It's the voice of power E104, E122 (E127) E142 Here's to the king (of the 1990s) Give me everything, give me everything

The fuses have been lit

Big is back! Because bigger is better! An American tradition! This… is this!

Lyrics via genius.com which also has some nice annotations. I never knew all those numbers at the end were British designations for food additives.

#pwei #pop will eat itself #1980s #80s #capitalism #hypercapitalism #culture #music #v for vendetta #robocop

[nahcnivek]

Holiday leftovers: money money money. From Newport to St. Augustine, the hypercapitalism of the Gilded Age found its way south via the rail endeavors of Henry Flagler. His money and ambition built the ultraluxury resorts of the day in St. Augustine, which have now been converted to art galleries and college classrooms. #staugustine #historicstaugustine #henryflagler #poncedeleonhotel #flaglercollege #alcazarhotelstaugustine #lightnermuseum #gildedage #capitalism #hypercapitalism #needsmoregold (at St. Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cni6zfEOlDl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#staugustine #historicstaugustine #henryflagler #poncedeleonhotel #flaglercollege #alcazarhotelstaugustine #lightnermuseum #gildedage #capitalism #hypercapitalism #needsmoregold

[wlt270-clm]

“The Slows” - “Now that I’m forever with child”

Gail Hareven’s “The Slows” and Audre Lorde’s “Now that I’m forever with child” both discuss the corruption of motherhood through commodification and hyper-capitalism. 

Harveven and Lorde use mechanical and impassive imagery to illustrate relationships between mother and child influenced by capitalist cultures. 

“Given the way they are accustomed to raising offspring, even that many are hard work”  (Hareven, 1)

“Nearly three months old. He could have been a productive adult already” (Hareven, 3)

Throughout the story, the narrator repeats cold and distancing language, like “offspring” and “productive”, in his arguments against the Slows’ lifestyle. Combined with his negative use of “emotionality”, the anthropologist reveals a glorification of corporate culture over human connection. 

“Then the seed opened/I bore you one morning just before spring —/My head rang like a fiery piston/My legs were towers between which/A new world was passing” (Lorde, Lines 16-20)

Here, the organic and budding imagery of “seed” and “spring” contrasts industrial and detached imagery of “piston” and “towers”. While the child is “blooming” (2), the mother is simply a means of production, a “tower” to pass through. This sudden transition between natural and mechanical diction emphasizes the commodification of birth and motherhood. 

Though Lorde and Hareven reference different cultural revolutions, industrial and corporate respectively, their works converge to depict the degradation of motherhood in the face of progress. As hypercapitalism spreads throughout global cultures, the female body becomes a focus of commodification; a mother’s body transforms into a factory of production rather than a source of life and connection. 

#wlt270 #literature #poetry #world literature #audre lorde #gail hareven #hypercapitalism #commodifying the body #corrupted motherhood

[puffsaddy]

#early 2000s hypercapitalism and consumerism had a certain gene se qua to it #the kids today will never be able to experience this #and be cool about it.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Loblaw Companies Limited continues to see gains in profit and revenue as Canadians struggle to keep up with the soaring cost of living.

The grocery giant reported a profit of $508 million available to its common shareholders from its second quarter this year. That's an increase of $121 million, or 31.3 per cent, compared to last year.

This increase is, in part, due to a one-time charge of $111 million related to a PC Bank commodity tax matter, clarifies the report.

The Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart parent company's revenue for the second quarter, which ended on June 17, amounted to a whopping $13.7 billion. It increased by $891 million, or 6.9 per cent, from last year.

"Our businesses remain focused on providing Canadians with the selection, freshness, care and value they need today," said Loblaw chairman and president Galen G. Weston in a statement. [...]

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#cdnpoli #Loblaws #corruption #capitalism #hypercapitalism #cost of living #food insecurity

[yangzhouman]

CLOUD STRIFE and the YAOI IDENTITY

[note: this is my slightly-edited submission to yaoi zine vol. 1: what was the yaoi that changed your life? organised by our beloved @tshirt3000. it’s 81 pages of nostalgia, poignancy, and really fucking amazing creativity, all about yaoi. i wrote about FF7, and the zine ranges from arthurian legend to currently-publishing webtoons and all the way back. it’s a real labour of love! and it kicks ass! please check it out here!]

what’s gayer than absorbing the identity of another man? doing it twice. i’m talking about cloud strife from FFVII, a yaoi icon who has carried fujoshi gamers on his shoulders for nearly three decades. i owe everything to him, and i’m sure my highschool friends wish his pointy polygon form hadn’t plagued my mind for all these years. sorry girls.

pretty much everything about cloud is yaoi, from his design to his character to his story. did you know the designers deliberately made him “less masculine” so that he could better rival sephiroth? direct quote. until this week, i didn’t — he was meant to have smooth black hair, but was given his defining blond spikes instead. sephiroth, with his long hair and his long sword, exists in deliberate, calculated comparison. it’s easy pickings for people looking for yaoi in a classic contrasting uke/seme dynamic.

but the previous design of smooth black hair and less ambiguous masculinity, now a contrast to cloud, still exists. it went to zack fair, who is notable as the first man that cloud absorbs. he’s the origin of it all in the truest sense: let’s begin with him. 

ZACK FAIR

the most important thing about zack is that he’s dead. it gets weird from here, because every time we see cloud, we see zack — in this sense, he is entirely defined by his connection to cloud, and by how cloud keeps makes space for him even when he really, really shouldn’t.

see, cloud believes he is zack. this is psychological and somatic: for a long time, cloud thinks that he is a soldier working for the megacorporation that runs the planet. but he isn’t. this identity actually belongs to zack fair, who truly was a soldier, and who died protecting cloud from that megacorporation. 

zack died for cloud. cloud becomes zack. this confusion of identity is borne both as a trauma defence and a grief response: cloud believes he is zack so thoroughly that he forgets zack exists, thereby removing that horrific memory from his mind while paradoxically ensuring that his friend is not lost forever. zack is safe within cloud. here he cannot be hurt. 

and cloud’s absorption of zack is total, taking on his mannerisms, his sword, even his skills and relationships. his style of fighting, his attitude to the world — everything. in doing so, zack fair lives on; it’s not zack who died, not if he is standing right here in a different skin.

i struggle to think of something more yaoi than subsuming another man into your being, other than gay sex. nothing says that zack and cloud don’t have gay sex, but it’s unlikely, as cloud is catatonic for a long time — it’s the reason why zack dies, protecting his vulnerable friend. the lack of physicality between zack and cloud works nicely though. there’s a desperation around cloud’s actions here, an unreasonable response to grief/loss/love that speaks of unfulfillment. zack and cloud’s relationship is all about uncrossable distances, and reaching across anyway. there is little response between the two: they can never reply to each other, only assume permission and act in the way they think the other would want. the other’s existence becomes cerebral, established in thought-space rather than physical-space. and the result is a loneliness so desperate it destroys. zack was as lonely as cloud; zack mythologised cloud too, dreaming of delivering him to safety so intensely that he gave his life to this fantasy.

cloud feels immense shame about his inability to save zack, and later on when he realises what he has done, shame about how he has treated zack’s memory. but i think there’s something here about cloud’s respect and love for someone who took care of him. zack is physically and emotionally stronger, openly affectionate and protective. by taking zack on as a mantle, cloud stays safe. by becoming his own protector, cloud embodies zack more truly than zack himself could manage. he understands what it is that zack truly dreamed of, and gives him another chance to be a hero. 

what i’m saying is: cloud did what zack wanted, though maybe in a more extreme form than he had imagined. i don’t even need the authorial stamp of approval, but i have it anyway — in the movie sequel ADVENT CHILDREN, zack appears in ghost form to support a struggling cloud. and his support is simply to ask cloud to repeat the final words that zack ever said to him, knowing that cloud will understand: “you’ll be my living legacy”. 

these words are imprinted on cloud’s yaoi identity. zack totally meant it as a wish for cloud to survive, but i love the weight of burden here: it sounds like something an overbearing parent would say. cloud subconsciously shapes himself around it. and i can’t ignore how it calls to trauma theory of living legacies, too, though i’m sure square enix didn’t mean to express the theory so textually. here trauma is not solely marked by scars, but by the emotions and behaviours that a person experiences afterwards, which grow and take life of their own. it’s about carrying your trauma around with you, and having it change you physically. as janina fisher tells us, trauma manifests in a person’s life beyond the event as “fear, shame, anger … startling, impulses to run or hide or fight, even against one’s own body”. zack had carried cloud’s body around with him, and the weight of it encouraged him onward to his death; cloud truly was his living legacy in that sense. but zack positions himself as cloud’s living legacy, which cloud’s body must carry not as a physical weight, but as emotion and behaviour that cloud cannot help but follow through. this kind of intense doubling-back and doubling-down is the kind of stuff that makes fujoshis crazy, by the way.

this fucked me up for years. i have always loved stories where important characters are already dead: it’s a style of writing that really impresses me, and i enjoy what it does to the remaining characters who have to live with that hole, or in cloud’s case, in that hole. the fact that cloud fills his hole with zack, and also himself, is so twisty and fun. forgetting and becoming a dead guy is fucked up — absorbing the man who died for you is fucked up. but i think zack would have been ok with it. and what’s better than two guys aligning in their fucked up views?

this brings us to sephiroth.

SEPHIROTH

if sephiroth had his way, cloud would also be his living legacy. he’s the most famous villain in FFVII, driven crazy by his mommy trauma and god complex, and cloud becomes his enemy because he keeps thwarting his plan to destroy the planet. he’s also the other half of sefikura, one of the most enduring and epic ships in the yaoi world. cloud has earned his place as a yaoi icon, and sephiroth is on the podium with him.

during FFVII, cloud pursues sephiroth. this is more than just plot — square enix built this dynamic into the game itself, and it was a resounding success within the industry and the genre. this pursuit mechanic involves looping back around the world map to find this villain in previously-explored locations. by updating the map with sephiroth’s presence, we get to feel his omni-presence in cloud’s mind. the pressure that sephiroth exerts upon cloud to think of him becomes more discernible, and more complex, in sephiroth’s response to being hunted by the protagonist: which is to remove any thoughts that are not of him. he turns cloud into his puppet — he forces his way into cloud’s mind on a psychic level, and imposes his own will onto him. chasing sephiroth makes cloud vulnerable; but he must keep chasing the bad guy. he must knowingly open himself to sephiroth because that is his role in the game; and we as the gamer behind him are pushing him onwards, making him dance on those strings again and again so that we reach the ending. becoming implicit in the roles of martyr and murderer is a heady rush that speaks to the success of sefikura in FFVII. we yaoify cloud. how fun is that?

here’s a quote from cloud: “i wasn't pursuing sephiroth... i was being summoned by sephiroth”. he’s being literal here. sephiroth is deliberately drawing cloud closer, forcing him to follow and find him, because he wants to, um, ‘form reunion’ with him. this is also literal. sephiroth wants cloud to be with him, but more importantly, he wants cloud to be him — to obey his commands, to align with his views, to be in total sync with what sephiroth thinks and feels. this part of their relationship is all about sephiroth: narcissistic to the bone, sephiroth’s obsession with cloud is rooted in how cloud continually pulls away from his call and rejects him.

cloud is meant to be sephiroth’s vessel, by the way. not immediately obvious, especially with the care that the designers took to make their visual appearances contrast. but it’s a really fun plot twist, and one that puts cloud’s identity crises into sharp focus. sephiroth’s identity has been forced onto cloud through medical trauma, with his dna inserted physically into cloud’s body, which turns his mental and verbal objections into something of a painful joke. he doesn’t want to be sephiroth. sephiroth sucks, and keeps killing his friends. but cloud’s body betrays itself, betrays him and keeps him from feeling secure in his own identity. there’s no part of him that he can cut out to get rid of sephiroth; and even after sephiroth is dead, cloud feels him. sephiroth is still in him. whose body is it, anyway?

i’ve made sefikura sound fucked up, and it is, kinda. but it’s easy to understand the hold that it’s had on fujoshi gamers. cloud doesn’t go quietly. sephiroth’s oppressive manipulation is what ignites cloud’s will to fight back. 

sephiroth’s insistence that he is the original, and cloud a copy who must submit, is the kind of crazy that appeals to me more now that i’ve come to terms with my leo sun star sign. i suppose it’s visually similar to how zack and cloud had existed, but in practice it is a more dynamic and charged relationship. like his mother before him, sephiroth is a virus: iterative, defined through the suppression of others and the subsequent displacement with himself. he exists only in this state of violence — is made real through it — and he doesn’t want to live in any other way. as derrida puts it, “as soon as there is the One, there is murder, wounding, traumatism. L’Un se garde de l’autre. The One guards against/keeps some of the Other. It protects itself from the Other… The One makes itself violence.”

sorry for putting french in front of you. this aptly describes and complicates sefikura, because actually, it’s cloud finding himself in that abjection of sephiroth. who is he? not sephiroth’s copy; not sephiroth. he is as much a One as he is an Other, and makes himself more of both as he rejects sephiroth. in that rejection he provokes sephiroth again, who must respond. it’s an equal relationship only through its dynamism, in the constant flux and flow of violence that they put each other through. there’s no real hope of reconciliation between them — they are on guard, always conscious of the power they hold over each other. it’s sustainable only if the two of them live forever, and cloud is the protagonist. eventually sephiroth loses.

sephiroth is measurably more yaoi than zack, by the way. zack has a girlfriend, for all that his character is defined by his homoerotic death scene. sephiroth has an obsession with cloud that follows him into the grave and beyond. in ADVENT CHILDREN, sephiroth somehow manifests into physical fragments in an attempt to resurrect himself — and when he does, he runs to fight cloud. (cloud fights alongside his friends, but always ends his fights with sephiroth alone: their relationship is unique.) it’s here that we get sephiroth’s yaoi line: “i will never be a memory”. once again, it’s the final words that cloud hears before sephiroth dies (again, and hopefully more permanently this time). 

i kinda like it more than “you’ll be my living legacy”. i think it’s more comically connected to living trauma theory: yes, sephiroth is in his nightmares, but he does keep physically appearing to haunt him. it ties in well with sephiroth’s narcissism, but also his place in the wider story as a lapsed war hero that cloud had, at one point, idolised. as a young boy, cloud had looked up to sephiroth and tried to emulate him; cloud had joined the army to be like sephiroth. in a way, sephiroth is more of the origin to cloud’s story than zack is. sephiroth’s fall from grace is something a lot of sefikura fans tap into, recognising the toxicity of that connection. all yaoi should have a healthy dose of painful, hilarious irony. 

i also like how in plain text it seems… relatively mundane? not normal, and definitely terrifying to a man recovering from his protagonist status. but also a little bit like sephiroth is cloud’s crazy ex who just can’t accept the breakup. that does trump zack’s parenting line for me. 

anyway, with sephiroth in place, cloud moves from a fujoshi’s delight to a fujoshi’s icon. it’s in sefikura that we see cloud at his most fierce and dynamic, which is hugely appealing. i think the stakes add rather than detract here, and the pain of finding yourself in/with a man who keeps killing your friends is very thrilling. as true rivals, sephiroth gets to transgress some of the barriers that kept zack from cloud through sheer force of villainy, and the intense mirroring between them is revitalising for cloud. sephiroth gives cloud purpose, defining him as an individual again — a One. that’s yaoi.

CLOUD STRIFE AGAIN

the thing is, i’m not sure cloud wants to be a One. not in the sense that sephiroth means it, anyway. cloud’s identity is a fractured thing, broken up by amnesia and survivor’s guilt and the burden of being a protagonist, but it’s deliberate. it’s a defence mechanism, as fredric jameson puts it, against the eroding currents of life that cloud must continue to run through. a poignant image for a broken midgar, and a textual experience, rather than theoretical, for cloud. yet his healing is not to discard parts that do not resemble cloud-before-the-game, but to try and make amends with what’s left — or rather, what’s there. the final third of the game is cathartic for cloud’s identity, when he reconciles the two truths of being neither zack fair or sephiroth. so, what happened to cloud? is he still there; if so, how does he find that part of himself again? or does he throw it all away and start again? no; cloud refuses to live in rejection any longer. he cannot exist parcelled away in the spaces between people, butting up against their edges. instead he starts to acknowledge and appreciate how they touch him. he is made through the interactions of their identities against, and with, his. cloud has always been there. 

in this way, i think he is yaoi. writing from the perspective of his ship halves makes him appear reflective rather than transformative, but in truth he absorbs. he is a space for other characters to go through (i am calling him a hole) and in doing so, those characters are different. it’s in that type of connection that cloud finds his identity, and i find that really beautiful. deleuze and guattari talk about how a fragmented identity shows an unfettered desire that is rooted in the current of life, and who craves life more than someone who keeps being denied it? refusing to cohere to a single, impenetrable ego is a choice, and it’s one that shows a determination to experience the present whilst not letting go of the past. it’s too hard to be done accidentally, and especially to do it twice. cloud’s showing us something here. 

he’s my favourite kind of protagonist, really. cloud resists the archetype of a lone(ly) soldier trudging on, because he keeps seeking out connection, be it for love or security or purpose. it is only in experiencing relationships that cloud can begin to make sense of his life. he can’t exist on his own. he needs to know someone, and they need to know him. 

and that, to me, is yaoi.

[now read yaoi zine!!!!]

#🐸 #FFVII #this is so long and yet there's loads more i wanted to say #i wanted to think about yaoi in an ecological sense: what does it mean for cloud to hold onto other identities (and other men) in midgar #i.e. a world that is being eaten by hypercapitalism #and i wanted to do a lacanian reading of cloud's psychosexual identity. there's nobody who embodies the a #nal stage more than cloud but i really like the concept of the mirror and how it fits into ffvii #basically: i was unhinged by tshirt's proposal and am still shoving things back into the box #if you cut me open like a stick of rock you would just see cloud strife's face #yaoi zine

[marnie1964]

Come off it you have to work sooo hard to fish “what happened to real men” out of this

#m #I know it’s a poorly articulated post but isn’t the obvious throughline hypercapitalism? no need to accuse others of crypto fascism because #they don’t like your favorite treat #in any case

[pizzopaps]

i miss multiple romantic partner choose your own adventure stories where u dont have to pay for each choice like quizilla really let u read an entire story abt if a demon, vampire, angel, or bad boy would go for u in 36 parts and u didnt have to drop a cent i miss that

#like i know theres episode and other app games but u always gotta pay fuckin 1.25 for every choice and i currently have negative money #love in a time of hypercapitalism 😢

[cuteasamuntin]

Once again I begging to know how CDPR could write V and Johnny Silverhand’s relationship developing as it does and being Like That™ and not letting us romance Johnny

Never have I had such an impulse to fix a greasy, scumbag murderboi who will so clearly, actively make my character worse

#that boy has so much misogyny and disdain for sex work and people’s alienation from their labor and bodies #so y’know a fairly average leftist white dude especially considering his dabbles in terrorism #also just in general I’m disappointed at CDPR not letting V be more sympathetic to approaching dolls’ and joytoys’ work as labor #under the crush of hypercapitalism and no privacy from big tech but ultimately just labor by people trying to survive #without any moralizing or making it clear she would *never* fuck a sex worker (at least at Clouds) #like it’s what I expected from CDPR but I don’t have to like it #johnny silverhand #cyberpunk 2077 #johnny/v