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Movie Review: Steve Jobs
Title: Steve Jobs Release Year: 2015 Director: Danny Boyle Genre: Biographical drama Main Cast: Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), Seth Rogan (Wozniak), Kate Winslet (Joanna), Michael Stuhlbarg (Andy Hertzfeld), Jeff Daniels (Scully), Katherine Waterson (Chrisanne) Plot: Set during three launches in Steve Jobs life, the Macintosh, the Cube, and the iMac, it examines the relationships he had with his daughter Lisa, Lisa’s mother, his current then former then current business partner Woz, his father figure Scully, and close friend/coworker Joanna. Through conversations and flashbacks, we see Jobs’s professional and personal trials as well as both the best and worst aspects of his character. Personal Rating: 18.2/20    (91%)
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Review: I thought this movie was phenomenal. I never knew much about Steve Jobs, probably because I didn’t want to reflect on how completely technologically incapable I am, but this movie was just so well done. I wouldn’t even categorize it as a biography, more a memoir as it only takes from five specific events in Jobs’ life. That keeps the film on track, all runtime influential and accounted for. You really get to know these interpersonal relationships because they are the plot. They are the movie. It lives and dies with them. That’s why it was so good that all the actors were amazing. Fassbender somehow kept us liking Jobs the whole way through, even during his more questionable moments, and perfectly portrayed the business genius mixed with the caring, but questionable, father. We somehow both felt sorry for and disliked Chrisanne for her struggles and treatment of Steve and Lisa. You couldn’t help but feel sorry for Woz for how he was treated, and you kind of just want to make sure Andy knows how good he was. It was a good and interesting watch that was completely entertaining through it’s two-hour run. Recommended for People who Like Movies About: genius’, real-life, people, relationships (platonic/familial), people driven stories
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bronzeagepizzeria · 2 months
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STEVE JOBS (2015) dir. Danny Boyle
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Raine: I have an idea. It’s deceptive and borderline unethical.
Eda: I’m listening.
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bookholichany · 23 days
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I wish I could go and thank him in person for being born!
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myawesomemovielist · 9 months
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my awesome movie list of 2015:
the danish girl  (dir. tom hooper)
youth  (dir. paolo sorrentino)
brooklyn  (dir. john crowley)
carol  (dir. todd haynes)
bessie (dir. ron schmidt)
macbeth  (dir. justin kurzel)
sicario  (dir. denis villeneuve)
mad max: fury road (dir. george miller)
southpaw  (dir. antoine fuqua)
bridge of spies  (dir. steven spielberg)
beasts of no nation  (dir. cary joji fukunaga)
steve jobs  (dir. danny boyle)
black mass  (dir. scott cooper)
the lobster (dir. yorgos lanthimos)
room  (dir. lenny abrahamson)
the big short  (dir. adam mckay)
miles ahead  (dir. don cheadle)
demolition (dir. jean marc vallee)
the revenant  (dir. alejandro iñarritu)
our brand is crisis  (dir. david gordon green)
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◤ STEVE JOBS, 2015
╳ Danny Boyle
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vetteldixon · 1 year
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steve jobs dir. danny boyle // wild geese, mary oliver
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thecinematicshots · 1 year
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deepinthelight · 2 years
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Seven Movies From 2015
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Terminator Genisys
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Jurassic World
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Steve Jobs
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Ant-Man
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The Martian
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kajillionaires · 2 years
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yes i’m an apple hater yes i sobbed over the steve jobs movie i’ve got layers
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Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015)
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bronzeagepizzeria · 2 months
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i’m going to abandon my several wips and watch steve jobs (2015) again sorry
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A full character analysis on JAVIER PEÑA from the TV show NARCOS
I've created this as a point of reference when writing for Pedro's characters, and I hope you find it useful. Even if you just want to learn more about the character. 🖤
FULL MASTERLIST OF PEDRO'S CHARACTERS ANALYSED
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FULL CHARACTER STUDY:
*Contains some comparisons to the real life Javier Peña, on which Pedro's Javier Peña is based on.
Basic Details:
Full Name: Javier Peña
Nickname(s): Javi, also referred to as "Peña" or "Jav" by Steve Murphy
Appears in: Narcos, 2015 (first appearance on screen in episode 1, season 1 at approx. 31:41)
Age (if known): Unconfirmed, suspected late 30's, possibly early-to-mid 40's
Sexuality: Straight - Javi was previously engaged to a woman named Lorraine back in Laredo, and also regularly sleeps with female hookers. He also hooked up with a female colleague, Katie, and slept with M-19 co-leader Elisa Álvarez, whilst temporarily hiding her in his apartment.
Nationality: Texan, Javi is from Laredo, Texas, with Mexican roots
Family: Father, Chucho Peña. There is brief mention of an aunt.
Spouse/Partner: No mention of a current partner.
Relationship Status: Currently single, was previously engaged to Lorraine.
Current Living Status: Alive
Languages Spoken: Spanish, English
Education: Presumed at least high school educated as he works for the government and the DEA as a Special Agent
Occupation:
Job Role/Title: DEA Special Agent, and later as Country Attaché
Special Skill(s): Combat training, guns and ammo, detective work, undercover work, anti-terrorism, anti-drugs trafficking, tactical
Notable Colleague(s): Steve Murphy, General Carillo
Distinguishing Features:
Tattoo(s): None
Piercings: None
Scar(s): None notable
Other Markings: None notable
Prominent Feature(s): Clean shaven face with a prominent pencil moustache
Injuries: Javi doesn't suffer any serious injuries. He does, however, endure very minor slips and stumbles when chasing down Narcos/suspects, most notably in season 3 when he chases down Franklin Jurado and jumps down a balcony, which leaves him limping for a few moments after as he runs.
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Brown
Personality:
Traits: Determined, persuasive, adept
Javi is purported to be originally from Laredo, Texas. (The real life Javier Pena was born and raised in Hebbronville, Texas.)
Javi starts off as a special agent for the DEA, and then later becomes Country Attaché for Colombia, as titled on his business card we see in season 3. An attaché is normally an official, who serves either as a diplomat or as a member of the support staff, under the authority of an ambassador or other head of a diplomatic mission, mostly in intergovernmental organizations or international non-governmental organisations or agencies.
Narcos is set between the late 1970's until the early 1990's.
Javi appears to type at a slow to medium pace, using both his index fingers on the keys, and uses a typewriter when typing up his reports at his desk.
Whilst Javi tends to skirt the line of morals at times, it's clear that using any means necessary to capture Escobar is something he will entertain, and states himself, even if it means getting close to his enemies and playing on both sides. This is evident when he uses and provides intel to Judy Moncada and Don Berna, which then include the Los Pepe's murders, and ends up working with the Castaño's to get Christina Jurado back.
Javi is seen making the decision to gun down Gacha in the chopper, and states that he'll "sleep tonight" when asked if he's alright. He also shoots a man - who claims he's a politician - in the gut to get answers. This behaviour indicates that Javi will make choices that potentially risk him being the "bad guy" and putting his career at risk, in order to seek justice and bring down Escobar and the Cali Cartel. Subsequently his choices catch up with him when he's fired at the end of season 2, for his involvement with Los Pepes.
Whilst we don't see Javi physically cry during Narcos, he does get watery-eyed when talking to his father Chucho in the car on the way back from the wedding, and also when Carillo shoots a child at point blank range and Steve asks him what's going on. Javi deals with his emotions by either drinking (we see him frequent many bars and drinking what appears to be Whiskey), or by indulging in sex.
Javi appears to have had specialist combat training at some point in his career - we see him descending from a helicopter into the jungle via rope line, which isn't standard training for police or DEA, unless you're in a specialist unit.
The real life Javier Peña served as a deputy sheriff for Webb County sheriff’s office in Laredo from 1975 to 1984, and then continued his service with the DEA until his retirement in 2014. In the show it appears that Javi has his career solely in the DEA as there isn't mention of anything else. Steve states that he is a "lifer" in the DEA when they're both at the airport whilst Javi is waiting for his flight home back to the USA after his dismissal.
Javi is seen drinking coffee regularly, presumed black as he is not seen adding any milk/cream or sugar, and also drinks Whiskey. When Helena asks what drink he can offer her, he replies "Whiskey or water." Javi is seen ordering a Whiskey Dry at the bar in season 3. It appears Whiskey is his drink of choice.
Javi appears to shake and twitch his left hand fingers when he's apparently anxious. He does this a few times throughout the show. (This may actually be a trait that Pedro has himself, as he also does this for his character Joel Miller in The Last Of Us.)
Javi uses flirting as a way of persuading women to help him. He does this with Colleen by complimenting her nails when he needs her signature. He tells the Ambassador she's wearing a beautiful dress when he gets her to agree to his needs in season 1. He also tries it with Christina by flirting and buying her a drink with the intention of getting her to talk, although that goes south pretty quickly due to her loyalty to her husband.
Javi looks "after his own". He demonstrates this several times by telling Steve to say he knows nothing and that it was all Javi if Steve were to be questioned about Los Pepes. He also does this again in season 3 on the plane with Fiestl and his team, telling them that it all comes back on him if it goes awry. This indicates he wants to protect others.
Javi's dad says it means a lot to his "tía" that Javi came to the wedding. Tía is the Spanish word for Aunt.
Javi calls his father "dad", "pop" and "pops". It seems they have a good, close relationship as Chucho seems to know a lot about Javi's career, and they've seemingly had talks about it before. There is no mention of Javi's mother during the show.
Javi is generally a pretty good shot with a gun; he's able to shoot the guerrilla holding Christina hostage - whilst wearing night vision goggles, which is actually harder to do than without, due to depth of field - in the face on a single shot. However, he's not a good shot when shooting the pigeons, missing every one. He claims it's because he's never been duck hunting when Steve jibes him for it.
Javi's Smoking Habits:
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Javi is an avid smoker and it appears he smokes from the brand Marlboro, determined by the box shown on Gabriela's bedside table, and glimpses of the red boxes he has throughout the show.
Javi is seen actively smoking - or with a cigarette, even if it's not yet lit - in a total of 44 scenes across all three seasons. (13 scenes in season 1, 25 scenes in season 2 and 6 scenes in season 3.)
In episode 1 of season 3, Javi explains to Lorraine he's quitting smoking as he chews Nicorette gum. However, later at the end of the same episode, he's seen smoking as he wakes up in bed with Katie asleep beside him. Season 3 is the the least amount of times he's seen smoking however, indicating he's possibly trying to stay true to quitting.
Javi mostly smokes using his right hand, holding the cigarette between his thumb and pointer finger.
Javi's Lovers:
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Javi has several lovers and appears to know and frequent prostitutes/hookers regularly, using them for information, as well as hook ups. This is more apparent in season 1 and 2 and less seen and mentioned in season 3. Assumed because Javi's job is more senior in season 3 and he has more of a reputation to uphold.
It appears statistically, based off of physical looks alone, that Javi possibly prefers brunettes.
He sleeps with prostitute Helena Sotomayor in season 1 whom he uses and pays for information, and it seems he does have affection for her as he states "we get better each time we practice," indicating he sleeps with her regularly. She is subsequently attacked and viciously raped, before can Javi rescue her. His first sex scene in the show is with Helena on his loveseat in his apartment.
Javi then sleeps with M-19 Militia co-leader, Elisa Álvarez in season 1, when Connie brings her to Javi's apartment to protect and hide. Although they don't have a sex scene, they are shown naked in bed together. Javi is seen discussing getting her somewhere safe, however she states he isn't responsible for her. He nuzzles in and kisses her softly.
Javi has a regular hook-up with a prostitute named Gabriela in season 2. His second sex scene is with Gabriela in her apartment in her bedroom. Prior to that, he is seen wearing his jeans and smoking at the window, whilst she is naked on the bed, assumed after sex between them, and they talk together. Javi is seen rubbing her stomach affectionately.
Javi hooks up with a colleague called Katie in season 3. He doesn't have a sex scene with her, but wakes up in bed naked with her still asleep at dawn, and smokes a cigarette he takes from her purse.
Javi refers to some prostitutes by name and nickname in season 1, "Freckles" and "Vanessa", indicating he knows them quite well when he and Steve arrest McPickle at the private brothel, which Javi swears he doesn't know about with a smirk to Steve.
Javi was previously engaged to a woman back in Laredo called Lorraine. He tells Steve that he left her on their wedding day as he couldn't go through with it, and states "she's better off." Later we see Javi talking with her at the wedding they're both guests at in season 3 in Laredo. She has since remarried someone else called Randy. Javi apologizes to her indicating he still feels remorse for what he did. Lorraine says it's taken him "ten years" to apologise, indicating the length of time that has passed between them. Lorraine also appears to have had 2 children with Randy.
Javi's sex is generally affectionate, with lots of kissing, touching and nuzzling. He does this with both Helena and Elisa, and with both these women it's indicated that he possibly feels some genuine affection for them. He has a regular thing with Gabriela in season 2 and is seen talking with her about writing and why she continues to be a prostitute. Later however, he has rough sex with Gabriela after Carillo shoots the child in front of him. He has sex with Gabriela from behind and pulls on her hair.
Javi's Apartment:
Javi's apartment is a government issue apartment in Colombia. It's on the ground floor in an apartment block.
For an in depth look at Javi's apartment, please see these amazing posts already made by @pedropascalito
A look at Javi's Apartment & Another glimpse at the details
Fashion/Outfits:
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Outfits - Javi's look is styled predominantly in the time period when Narcos is set - the late 70's, 80's, and into the early 90's. However, Javi's fashion very much clings onto the 70's vibe.
He wears lots of button down shirts in different colours, patterns and fits, with some being more fitted, and other's more square and loose looking on his frame. He often leaves his top few shirt buttons undone.
He wears mostly jeans, blue denim, that are tight fitting and slightly flared/bootcut around the ankle.
When he wears a suit, it's often a dark grey, brown or blue colour or a lighter pale shade, as was the style at the time. The suit jacket often appears a little too big for him, again as was the style back then with large shoulder pads and baggier slacks. He wears a variety of patterned ties when he wears a suit. He'll also leave the top button undone on his shirt and wear his tie slightly loose at the knot.
When he's doing field work, he dresses casually in shirts, jeans, boots and jackets. He wears green camo in the jungle when rescuing Christina.
He has a black, well worn leather jacket, and also several different styles of jacket, including denim and corduroy.
He wears a plaid shirt to the wedding in season 3, in homage to his Southern heritage.
He wears boots that have a small heel, and is seen wearing cowboy boots also in some scenes.
He wears aviator sunglasses with a yellow hue lens, which was a popular look in the 70's.
Accessories: Silver wrist watch worn on left wrist, handguns Beretta & Zoraki, handcuffs, aviator sunglasses, police badge. He uses a large sat phone and then later a smaller mobile phone in season 3. He carries his cigarettes, lighter and car keys in his jacket pockets. Javi has a pager in season 1 that he wears on his belt on his left hip. He also has a brown leather gun holster that he keeps on his left side in season 1, which is seen in a couple of shots.
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Javi's Shirts range in colour and pattern, yet he mostly wears short-sleeved button ups. He often leaves the top two buttons open. A selection of some of his shirts:
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Javi's Jackets include leather, denim, corduroy and sleeveless styles:
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Javi's Suits are a selection of dark colours and pale two-piece combos, usually worn with a white shirt and selection of ties:
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Javi's sunglasses are classic yellow lens tinted aviators, as was popular in the 1970's. He wears the same pair throughout all 3 seasons:
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Javi's Tac Vest is a green combat military style, issued by the DEA, with a single front holster for his Beretta. He wears it during all three seasons:
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Some accessories of Javi's seen in season 2 on Gabriela's bedside table: Marlboro cigarette box & blue lighter, silver watch, handcuffs in leather pouch, police DEA badge and his Beretta:
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Weapons Used:
Weapon(s): (Exact weapons pictured below)
Javi has two primary hand guns as his main weapons.
In season 1, he uses a Zoraki 914 pistol, which is a smaller model.
In seasons 2 & 3, his main weapon is a Beretta 9mm magnum 92FS series. He keeps his Beretta in his left side desk drawer when at his desk. He also wears his Beretta tucked into his belt behind his back.
In the scene where Javi & Steve are shooting the pigeons, Javi uses a Benelli M3 Super 90 Shotgun.
Javi also uses a rifle in season 3 in the episode where he rescues Christina from the jungle. It appears to be a carbine rifle, possibly an M16 model, however the exact model is not 100% confirmed anywhere.
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Modes of Transport:
Vehicle(s):
Javi owns and drives a Jeep Cherokee during seasons 1 & 2 - License plates are shown as REW-950, B35-17T & MOP-920. The license plate of Javi's Jeep Cherokee changes three times during the first two seasons. This is because private car license plates in Colombia were black and white from 1973 to 1990, while yellow and black plates introduced in 1991.
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Javi owns and drives a 1995 Ford Explorer in Silver Grey in season 3 - License Plate BPL-729.
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Dialogue:
🗨 See Javi's full dialogue from the film, including deleted scenes.
Further Character Links (if any):
Javier Peña fandom Wiki Page
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FULL MASTERLIST OF PEDRO'S CHARACTERS ANALYSED
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Poor people pay higher time tax
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Doubtless you’ve heard that “we all get the same 24 hours in the day.” Of course it’s not true: rich people and poor people experience very different demands on their time. The richer you are, the more your time is your own — not only are many systems arranged with your convenience in mind, but you also command the social power to do something about systems that abuse your time.
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/10/my-time/#like-water-down-the-drain
For example: if you live in most American cities, public transit is slow, infrequent and overcrowded. Without a car, you lose hours every day to a commute spent standing on a lurching bus. And while a private car can substantially shorted that commute, people who can afford taxis or Ubers get even more time every day.
There’s a thick anthropological literature on the ways that cash-poverty translates into #TimePoverty. In David Graeber’s must-read essay “The Utopia of Rules,” he nails the way that capitalist societies generate Soviet-style bureaucracies, especially for poor people. Means-testing for benefits means that poor people spend endless hours filling in forms, waiting on hold, and lining up to see caseworkers to prove that they are among the “deserving poor” — not “mooches” who are defrauding the system:
https://memex.craphound.com/2015/02/02/david-graebers-the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy/
The social privilege gradient is also a time gradient: if you can afford a plane ticket, you can travel quickly across the country rather than losing days to the Greyhound or a road-trip. But if you’re even richer, you can pay for TSA Precheck and cut your airport security time from an hour to minutes. Go further up the privilege gradient and you’ll acquire airline status, shaving another hour off the check-in process.
This qualitative account of time poverty is well-developed, but it’s lacked a good, detailed quantitative counterpart, and our society often discounts qualitative work as mere anecdote and insists on having every story converted to numbers before it is taken seriously.
In “Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting,” published this month in Nature Human Behavior, public affairs researchers Steve Holt (SUNY) and Katie Vinopal (Ohio State) analyze data from the American Time Use Survey (AUTS) to produce a detailed, vibrant quantitative backstop to the qualitative narrative about time poverty:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01524-w
(The paper is paywalled, but the authors made a mostly final preprint available)
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jbk3x/download
The AUTS “collects retrospective time diary data from a nationally representative subsample drawn from respondents to the Census Bureau’s Community Population Survey (CPS) each year.” These time-diary entries are sliced up in 15-minute chunks.
Here’s what they found: first, there are categories of basic services where high-income people avoid waiting altogether, and where low-income people experience substantial waits. A person from a low-income household “an hour more waiting for the same set of services than people from high-income household.” That’s 73 hours/year.
Some of that gap (5%) is attributable to proximity. Richer people don’t have to go as far to access the same services as poorer people. Travel itself accounts for 2% more — poorer people wait longer for buses and have otherwise worse travel options.
A larger determinant of the gap (25%) is working flexibility. Poor people work jobs where they have less freedom to take time off to receive services, so they are forced to take appointments during peak hours.
Specific categories show more stark difference. If a poor person and a wealthy person go to the doctor’s on the same day, the poor person waits 46.28m to receive care, while the wealthy person waits 28.75m. The underlying dynamic here isn’t hard to understand. Medical practices that serve rich people have more staff.
The same dynamic plays out in grocery stores: poor people wait an average of 24m waiting every time they go shopping. For rich people, it’s 15m. Poor people don’t just wait in longer lines — they also have to wait for understaffed stores to unlock the cases that basic necessities are locked behind (poor people also travel longer to get to the grocery store — and they travel by slower means).
A member of a poor household with a chronic condition that requires two clinic visits per month loses an additional five hours/year to waiting rooms when compared to a wealthy person. As the authors point out, this also translates to delayed care, missed appointments, and exacerbated health conditions. Time poverty leads to health poverty.
All of this is worse for people of color: “Low-income White and Black Americans are both more likely to wait when seeking services than their wealthier same-race peer” but “wealthier White people face an average wait time of 28 minutes while wealthier Black people face a 54 minute average wait time…wealthier Black people do not receive the same time-saving attention from service providers that wealthier non-Black people receive” (there’s a smaller gap for Latino people, and no observed gap for Asian Americans.)
The gender gap is more complicated: “Low-income women are 3 percentage points more likely than low-income men and high-income women are 6 percentage points more likely than high-income men to use common services” — it gets even worse for low-income mothers, who take on the time-burdens associated with their kids’ need to access services.
Surprisingly, men actually end up waiting longer than women to access services: “low-income men spend about 6 more minutes than low-income women waiting for service…high-income men spend about 12 more minutes waiting for services than high-income women.”
Given the important role that scheduling flexibility plays in the time gap, the authors propose that interventions like subsidized day-care and afterschool programming could help parents access services at off-peak hours. They also echo Graeber’s call for reduced paperwork burdens for receiving benefits and accessing public services.
They recommend changes to labor law to protect the right of low-waged workers to receive services during off-peak hours, in the manner of their high-earning peers (they reference research that shows that this also improves worker productivity and is thus a benefit to employers as well as workers).
Finally, they come to the obvious point: making people less cash-poor will alleviate their time-poverty. Higher minimum wages, larger earned income tax credits, investments in low-income neighborhoods and better public transit will all give poor people more time and more money with which to command better services.
This week (Feb 13–17), I’ll be in Australia, touring my book Chokepoint Capitalism with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We’re doing a remote event for NZ on Feb 13. Next are Melbourne (Feb 14), Sydney (Feb 15) and Canberra (Feb 16/17). More tickets just released for Sydney!
[Image ID: A waiting room, draped with cobwebs. A skeleton sits in one of the chairs. A digital display board reads 'Now serving 53332.' An ogrish, top-hatted figure standing at a podium, yanking a dollar-sign shaped lever looms into the frame from the right. He holds a clock aloft disdainfully, pinched between the thumb and fingers of one white-gloved hand.]
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You don't Have To Pretend
Pairing: Dark!Wanda Maximoff x Reader
Summary: Wandas Lost Everyone...why does she have to loose everything when she can take what she wants?
Warnings: None really, kidnapping at the end, Talks of Eating disorders (R)
Word Count: 1.2k?
A/n: If this is familiar it's because it's from my old account UnofficiallyM that I accidentally deleted.
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[2015 just after Ultron] Y/n's Pov
"Knock knock," I heard Natasha say as she walked in with a brunette girl, Steve briefly told me that her name is Wanda and that she lost her brother and home country Sokovia in the latest fight to save the world.
"Hey Nat, You must be wanda," I smiled at her and gestured to the spare seat for wanda, she nodded quietly and sat down putting her hands in her lap, pulling her sleeves over her hands
"You know where to find me if you need me," Nat said to Wanda, nodded at me then left the room closing the door on her way out making me turn to observe Wanda once again
"I don't know if anyone has told you but Hi I'm Y/n, it's lovely to meet you Wanda," I spoke up getting her attention
"Nice to meet you too, y/n…. I'm sorry." She apologised and I furrowed my eyebrows together, sorry?
"What for?" I asked
"This just feels like I'm wasting your time.." She admitted and leaned back in the chair a little
"I'm a therapist wanda, I'm here to help, it's my job." I explained to her she nodded a little
"I know…. I just I've lost my parents before Pietro so I'm used to losing family," she shrugged pretending to be nonchalant but her devastation and grief was hid poorly
"No, don't do that." I said a little Too firmly, she looked at me a little startled but mainly confused
"Do what?" She asked tilting her head to the side a little
"Normalising that you've lost family." the realisation spread across her face and she turned red looking away
"I- I'm- that's not-" She stammered slightly and I just sat there looking at her "..that's not what I'm doing." She finally got out
"It is wanda, It's not easy losing family, but you aren't alone anymore. " I softly told her, she shook her head while tears threatened to fall from her beautiful green eyes
"I've got no family left, I am alone." She explained with a small laugh
"Oh wanda, you are never alone.." I said looking at her sadly, I took her hand and held it in mine giving it a small squeeze "there's always someone there for you,"
[Wrapping up Wanda's Session]
After an hour wanda had told me a lot of things, we also talked about how she was feeling. It was almost the end of her session when she spoke up randomly
"you know one thing I find quite ironic?" She said and I shook my head 'no'
"What do you find ironic?" I asked her setting my notebook to the side
"A therapist who dedicates themselves to helping others when they themselves have an eating disorder." She said and my eyes surely widened
"What?" I asked, feigning confusion
"I can read minds y/n, especially the ones that have thoughts screaming" She said a little coyly
"I don't have an eating disorder wanda," I laughed a little nervously. "That's a ridiculous assumption. " I murmured
"Why?" She asked me
"Why what, wanda?" I sighed, my job was never supposed to be about me but she seems really determined to dive into my life now that we've talked about hers
"Why do you not eat?" She broke me out of my thoughts and I got up from my chair
"I'm supposed to be helping you wanda, and I do eat." I criticised her a little
"Tell me why and I'll drop it" She said standing up and grabbing my wrist before I could escape the conversation
"Control. When things in my life get out of my hands i need something to control" I explained to her, Wanda looked at me sadly and a little shocked
"Are you really better y/n?" She asked and I nodded
"I am." I smiled at her and she nodded a little and released my wrist "I'll see you next week?" I asked her and she gave a small smile
"Yeah, thank you for today" She said before walking out the room
[Just after WandaVision] Wanda's Pov
"Oh wanda, you are never alone"
"there's always someone there for you"
Those words rang in my head mockingly. I lost my parents in the bombing, I lost Pietro in the battle between Ultron and the Avengers. I lost vision in the battle for the stupid stones.
But then my mind drifted back to y/n, after everyone was brought back I hadn't seen her in the compound. Steve told me she stopped being a therapist sometime during the 5 years but he didn't know what happened to her, how could he just not know?! She's helped the whole team numerous times!
I did end up finding out where she worked now, she worked at some animal shelter on the outskirts of New York, I lost everyone and now I know what who I want.
I flew all the way to the shelter and walked in plastering a smile across my face, I walked up to the front desk and saw a girl with a name tag saying 'Kelly'
"Hi, how can I help you ma'am?" She asked smiling at me as she turned away from her laptop
"I uh was looking to adopt a cat or a dog.." I explained and her smile widened
"Let me just go get my fiancée, she can show you the animals, she knows them far better." Kelly explained before she walked off down a hall, I tapped my fingers on the desk while I waited for her to return
"Wanda?" That sweet familiar voice asked I turned to look at her and smiled
"Y/n! Hi!" I said walking over to her, she hugged me
"This is an unexpected surprise!" She said smiling
"You've changed.." I acknowledged, she had longer hair, her eyes looked brighter, she had a ring on her hand. "And you're married?" I said gesturing to her ring
"Ah no, not yet.." She laughed
"We plan to get married in the fall!" Kelly interrupted with a smile, I felt a burning hatred start to grow for the woman.
"So you're looking for a pet?" Y/n asked, I nodded slightly
"Let me show you all the animals, I think k I have the perfect pet!" She grinned and dragged me to the kennels where the dogs started Barking and the cats started meowing, as soon as we were out of sight I sighed and took my hands to her temples
"Sorry sweetheart, you are Mine and only Mine." I whispered catching her as she fell limp into my arms "i'll make sure you are happy and eating and taking care of yourself- well I plan to do that" I smiled to myself before I used my magic to take us somewhere nobody could harm or take her away from me.
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