Corn @ Corn @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 48Joined 5 mo. ago
Protip: Tell the doctor it's wearing off too early so they increase your dosage. Only take the normal amount until you have a month backup stockpile, then renew your script at a lower rate. The doctor will understand if you're only renewing every other month because you forget or don't bother to take it some mornings.
Already on it, that's kind of the core of all of my political activity and organizing.
I'm not Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, I'm not the one stealing their surplus value. I'd be happy to help them take back what they're owed though.
A dude died of exposure because he couldn't afford his heating bill. If you think people who don't have money should simply die, then I guess it was working decently.
The workers who are responsible for the continued function of society aren't owed anything?
Fulltime is typically defined as 40 hours a week max, but the threshold is lower for definitions like the ACA, you can be eligible as low as 30, and sometimes employers have to make you eligible as high as 36, it's complicated.
Don't condescend when you are failing basic, basic reading comprehension. Middle school children use and understand rhetorical irony.
Since I obviously am not expressing that participation in paying taxes and being exploited by capitalism are meaningful choices, hence why I spelled out how impractical the alternatives are; homelessness and/or uprooting your entire life and finding a foreign country that will accept you, I must mean the opposite, that you don't have a realistic choice in the matter.
If you're autistic and have difficulty with this type of thing, I can give more examples, this is such a common rhetorical device, I'm genuinely surprised you didn't understand after rereading the post. I'm certain you've seen it before or had other people use it in conversation.
Eh, I kinda like the ephemeral nature of most tiktoks, having things go viral within a group of like 10,000 people, to the extent that if you're tangentially connected to the group, you and everyone you know has seen it, but nobody outside that group ever sees and it vanishes into the ether like a month later makes it a little more personal.
OK, lets do a reading comprehension exercise. You have identified that it would be absurd to suggest that those two are meaningful choices, so can you think of a more sensible way to interpret what I've said if I'm not suggesting that?
slave labor
china
lmao you could have said coco or diamonds or meat packing or the World Cup or gestured vaguely at the country with the highest prison population, but you had to go with the fictional example. Or do you genuinely think China has slaves driving combine harvesters (unlike Angola or a dozen other prisons where slaves pick cotton by hand)?
The whole point of that scene was that even a room of psychotic killers was disgusted by the idea of not tipping.
You don't get punished if you give up your citizenship and move to another country, and then stop paying taxes to America. You don't get punished if you decide to be homeless instead of paying your landlord 2K/mo to exist.
But realistically, you don't have a meaningful amount of choice when it comes to the bourgeoisie/government due to the difference in power.
You're confusing the issue. My point is that we are no more complicit in the taxes we pay than the amount we pay Jeff Bezos for the privilege of working at amazon.
All 3 circles come from people buying stuff from amazon.
Most people can tell they're creating a lot more wealth than they're getting, and that it's not going back into the company.
The green bit is the bit that goes into Jeff Bezos's pocket, it's not used to make cars and phones.
the number goes down if slowly
It was 7% in 2017, it's now 9%. Most progress was due to China, whom I have some hope for.
people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities
Wealth elasticity is going down in nearly every western nation; if you're born poor in America, you're more likely to die poor than your parents were.
Short of a revolution, the west is going to continue this trajectory as we struggle to afford basic necessities like housing, and billionaire mouth-pieces insist we live better than kings of the middle ages because kings of the middle ages couldn't afford ipads.
The 90s, when capitalism was bringing the former USSR the biggest non-war-related decrease in human life expectancy? When a million Iraqi children suffered excess deaths due to the US sanctions? When the Rwandan genocide was going on?
If those bubbles pop as they're graduating college, they might get to have homes.
Also there's a few countries that don't have housing bubbles, in Japan, 600/mo can get you a 700 sqft 2bd in a city of 10 million, in China 300 can get you that. Both these countries had bubbles that deflated.
That's generally a good thing, those kids don't need their bullshit going viral outside of tiktok. Give it 3 months for Instagram to pick up 5% of it, and then FB can pick up 5% of that.