“you have to pay us more now because we burnt your fucking house down”
step 1: adopt negligent and unsafe business practices step 2: burn down california step 3: get sued by customers for burning down california step 4: make the customers cover the costs of your lawsuits???????
step 5: go into the customers’ own homes and personally fuck their wives
The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.
ppl really be expecting us to risk our lives for minimum wage. I worked on campus just outside some of the evacuation zones during the Thomas Fire, which burned 281.9k acres of land and killed 23 people between the fires and mudslides that came after, and despite it literally raining ash, the air being extremely unhealthy to breathe, and the evacuation zones expanding overnight, we literally could not leave otherwise we would be barred from on-campus jobs.
groundskeepers and maintenance workers also had to stay. and of course most of us affected were poor people of color who couldn’t afford to lose an employment opportunity despite us all getting sick and having our lungs coated in soot.
I wanna know whose gonna patronizing these places.
The fact that much of the population must be labeled “mentally ill” to explain why so many individuals are not mentally or emotionally equipped to handle the gruelling mindset & method of action capitalism necessitates just goes to show how horrifically unnatural a system it is. It’s not us. It’s never been us
“There is something very wrong with what we have made ourselves. We have become a civilization based on work — not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement. The main political reaction to our awareness that half the time we are engaged in utterly meaningless or even counterproductive activities — usually under the orders of a person we dislike — is to rankle with resentment over the fact there might be others out there who are not in the same trap. As a result, hatred, resentment, and suspicion have become the glue that holds society together. This is a disastrous state of affairs.”
an interesting example of capitalism’s inefficiency as a global economic system. we harvest resources from other countries to the point of them having no net worth and in turn most of the people in our own country still struggle as most of that wealth stays at the top
our meat brains have absolutely no idea how to even begin to picture numbers as big as a billion (now think about how many people have multiple of these & how many people are struggling to put food on the table, if they even have a table)
can we please stop pretending this shit is good?!!?! What the fuck!!!!!
I don’t understand why this is a bad thing??
whats sold as inspirational here is somebody whose fear of being fired and having their source of food and shelter yanked away from them forced them to push themselves to unhealthy lengths
Exactly!!! We’re being told “be like this guy, he puts his company above his physical safety”. It’s a shaming tactic against people who don’t prioritize their employers. He was probably stressed the fuck out and needed serious recuperation after that feat, but they’re treating it like he sent the boss a birthday card.
I mean, he got a car out of it. He chose the job knowing how far away it was. This should be more of a condemnation of the lack of good public transportation in the south. This isn’t unique to Alabama, the only reason it’s in the news is because the owner is a decent human being.
I’ve been citing the preamble to the IWW constitution a lot lately:
“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.”
We must work or perish. All the talk this employee chose the job “knowing how far away it was” is bullshit. That he has to choose a job so difficult to get to is nothing more than fodder for further condemnation of our society.
The charitable act here comes with a hidden agenda, as does the awful media representation of the story.
Charity, especially in this manner, is disempowering, condescending, and re-enforces class. Capitalist charity is always about composing the rich as good, generous, noble while composing the poor as short-sighted beggars always guilty of ending up in need of help, and so parasitic. One better hope that the employer in this story pays his employee enough to afford to properly care for and fuel his new car. Worst of all, charity makes people believe capitalism is good because it puts a very nice mask on the whole oppressive affair.
hot take but … if a person feels too disabled to work … maybe … they’re too disabled to work and you shouldn’t force them into it when we literally dont… need… more people working anyway.
like the fact that we fucking force people into meaningless jobs just to pretend they earned their capitalism points is childish and absurd especially when it can lessen or end their life…….
Psst… It’s eugenics
Petition to call all money ‘capitalist points’ from now on. Euro, Dollar, Yen, doesn’t matter. All capitalist points.
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