If you walk into the Abyss

24.Argie boy named Juan. I'm great at gaming, fencing and being awkward.

[averagefairy]

working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay........ being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS.... sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine

[fbdbsgdg]

8 days....never thought about it like that 😓

[revere-irreverence]

This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off.  They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.

I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:

grow my own food

find my own clean water

heat my house

shit in the woods

[nubiana-americana-deactivated20]

[aggressivelycalm]

Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.

[ekelarsons]

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies.

[bookwyrmth1rt33n]

🤔😬😡

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

When the medieval peasant - the iconic, screwed over, worst off person of pop culture - had more days and time off than you, something’s gone wrong. And apparently something has been wrong for a while now...

[lost-in-cantha]

[monster2003]

I was overstimulated and now I’m evil

[daitheflu-mx]

[tumblingoverstars]

[madkiska]

[marlynnofmany]

[that-house]

[writterings]

i never knew that i was pirating anime and manga as a kid like i genuinely just thought it was free online

[bifrosted-flakes]

Tragedy enjoyers when characters haunt the narrative, when nothing can be done to save them, when small moments of respite and happiness only serve to send them closer to their inevitable end

[thanatos-girl]

Something u notice if u read enough marx is his insistence that many aspects of capitalism are not created in some cabal of evil billionaires, but has come about naturally as a result of the conditions of capitalism

[idiosyncraticwordsmith]

I have been beating those passages and excerpts and quotes over the head of so many people for so long.

The capitalist class does not literally have fucking annual meetings where they plan how to oppress the working class. They do not literally get together and scheme about how to exacerbate racial tensions to reduce worker unity. There is no grand conspiracy to ensure every retail and service job is lean staffed.

The bourgeois has certain class interests. Those interests require certain conditions be met. Those conditions can be met through only so many courses of action. The reason why every job is lean staffed is because lean staffing is a great way to reduce labor costs. That’s it. There’s no grand plan to make sure every worker is enslaved to their job and unable to schedule around it. That’s an unavoidable side-effect, an afterthought (if ever it’s a thought) to the bourgeois.

Sometimes the capitalist class does, in fact, get together and cooperate, in places like those big business conferences and at their ritzy get-togethers where they talk shop; and there are cooperative projects among their class, such as think-tanks and similar organizations meant to advance their interests.

But crucially, those are, again, outcroppings of a single simpler truth: in order for them to continue to be bourgeois, they must continue to own capital; in order to continue to own capital, they must continue to acquire profit. Everything else is in service to that, and every suffering the proles bear as a result is just fallout from that.

[left-reminders]

And that systemic anti-conspiracy way of viewing capitalism is important because sliding too far into the "cabal of evil billionaires" line of thinking can lead people to anti-Semitic ideologies. A lot of fascism cloaks itself in an "anti-capitalist" vibe in order to sound like an underdog ideology (even though the expressed purpose of fascism is to reassert traditional hierarchies and attack the marginalized). But whenever a fascist criticizes capitalism they always just mean "the secret order of Jewish elites who control the global economy and culture", and they want to replace that supposed social order with a tyrannical/reactionary white supremacist one.

Capitalism is about class struggle. If anyone tries to bring "race struggle" into it, know that you're dealing with a fascist.

[firesidecottage]

Reblog to put a handful of grass that you just tore out of the dirt onto the person you reblogged from’s head

[zvaigzdelasas]

x

[project-butch]

Professor chomsky is waiting for the collapse of the American government before he can die

[methforguys]

[leviathan-supersystem]

not right now methforguys

[holorifle]

saying “hm. must be the curse” every time something bad happens and refusing to elaborate is my new hobby

[lameborghini-deactivated2013061]

*sends u nudes but just as a friend*

[thenineofus]

I FUCKING HATE THAT I GREW UP WITH THE GOOD INTERNET I HATE THAT I REMEMBER GOOGLE SEARCHING A TERM AND FINDING OUT EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS I HATE THAT I REMEMBER WELL DESIGNED WEBSITES MADE FOR EASY VIEW AND NOT TO BOMB YOU WITH ADS I HATE THAT I REMEMBER WHEN APPS WERE TRYING TO BE THEIR BEST AND NOT TO SELL THE MOST I HATE HOW CAPITALISM AFFECTS EVERYTHING AROUND ME AND I HATE THAT I CAN SEE IT SO CLEARLY IN HOW IT AFFECTS THE INTERNET

[lihiominaa]

#right in front of my salad

House of the Dragon  S01E05 • We Light the Way  

[lost-in-cantha]

[thenineofus]

I FUCKING HATE THAT I GREW UP WITH THE GOOD INTERNET I HATE THAT I REMEMBER GOOGLE SEARCHING A TERM AND FINDING OUT EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS I HATE THAT I REMEMBER WELL DESIGNED WEBSITES MADE FOR EASY VIEW AND NOT TO BOMB YOU WITH ADS I HATE THAT I REMEMBER WHEN APPS WERE TRYING TO BE THEIR BEST AND NOT TO SELL THE MOST I HATE HOW CAPITALISM AFFECTS EVERYTHING AROUND ME AND I HATE THAT I CAN SEE IT SO CLEARLY IN HOW IT AFFECTS THE INTERNET

[amygdalae]

My dark souls co-op summons running alongside me watching me fail to dodge 100% of enemy projectiles and spam 7 estus before we even reach the boss room