ive SEEN quiet toilets. i KNOW we have the technology.
are you perhaps a bat

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ive SEEN quiet toilets. i KNOW we have the technology.
are you perhaps a bat
オレはこのとこ ぱんなのです
I'm wearing a bread these days
オレはこのとこ ぱんなのです
I'm wearing a bread these days
this is like.......the core point of like every modern piece of political economic writing ever. but it's actually mindboggling how much unlimited access to cheap goods americans have.
like even compared to other imperial states and taking wages and conversions into account it's still a ridiculous level of access and affordability, and then compared to relatively wealthy non imperial nations it's just completely unfathomable.
then of course if you say this you get a lecture about how actually everyone in the US is the poorest ever and most opressed and so on. ignoring that even if they're being paid little or in a remote area, the infrastructure and exploitation for that access is still there, and is still absolutely something they benefit from even if it's minimal.
like idk. not personally being able to access that level of convenience doesn't mean you don't live in a country where you can have things same day delivered for pennies off the backs of the third world. (and often things that are actually more expensive and hard to access in the country they're made in!!)
via @maidthings
"turns out its really easy to get goods for cheap when you've turned the entire planet into a logistical machine that funnels treats into your country at any cost"
Time to post my favourite quote from John Smith's Imperialism in the 21st Century:
"In The China Price, Tony Norfield recounts the story of a T-shirt made in Bangladesh and sold in Germany for €4.95 by the Swdiesh retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). H&M pays the Bangladeshi manufacturer €1.35 for each T-shirt, 28 percent of the final sale price, 40¢ of which covers the cost of 400g of cotton raw material imported from the United States; shipping adds another 6¢ per shirt. Thus €0.95 of the final sale price remains in Bangladesh, to be shared between the factory owner, the workers, the suppliers of inputs and services and the Bangladeshi government, expanding Bangladesh’s GDP by this amount. The remaining €3.54 counts towards the GDP of Germany, the country where the T-shirt is consumed, and is broken down as follows: €2.05 provides for the costs and profits of German transporters, wholesalers, retailers, advertisers etc. (some of which will revert to the state through various taxes); H&M makes a 60¢ profit per shirt; the German state captures 79¢ of the sale price through VAT at 19 percent; 16¢ covers sundry 'other item.' In Norfield’s words, 'a large chunk of the revenue from the selling price goes to the state in taxes and to a wide range of workers, executives, landlords, and businesses in Germany. The cheap T-shirts, and a wide range of other imported goods, are both affordable for consumers and an important source of income for the state and for all the people in the richer countries.'
His blunt conclusion: 'Wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.'"
The worker in Norfield's example gets an 18th of a cent per t-shirt.
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why does the usa have a city called corpus christi chuuni ass name you are not the body of christ you are a series of interconnected parking lots
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He said this because I wouldn't tell him my hair color
きょうは いぬさんの日らしいですので
しずかにするですかね
It's the Dog Day today, so I'm going to keep quiet...
※1/11=one one one=wan wan wan in Japanese= means, bow bow bow =dog day
cnn talking heads: trump is going to destroy our democracy and normalize xenophobia!!!!
shark tank guy: what exactly was democratic about the DNC kneecapping bernie in 2016 and handpicking kamala with no primary process in 2024
cnn talking heads: nothing the DNC does has to be democratic you neanderthal canadian immigrant
one last soda for the road...?