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micdotcom

Watch: Chicago woman had some great responses to a white man’s disturbing racist attacks.

crimeshetyped

I reblogged this 0.2 sec ago but I love her clapbacks so much

dnaguzzlingteamcaptain

Yeah should be doing this more.

reenuka-deactivated20181217

I just love how she says “He does not look to be of Native American descent,” lmao.

samiholloway

I never understood “go back to Africa”, like. Y'all brought them here. You gonna pay to send them back? Back where? Did you keep your records? Everyone from everywhere lives here now, deal with it already.

justdailynews

dailylaughsforyou

Design Elements so Smart You’ll Do a Double-Take (x)

cottoncandyspacequeen

I get those things are cool but is no one really going to bring up this table

questionableroyalty

I wanna get the hangers so i can make a loss joke

rejectingrepublicans

itsapros3xia

I just want to crawl in bed with someone I care about and have my heart feel at home again and watch movies and talk about random stuff for hours

catchymemes

mr-downer

That’s a face of a defeated man.

walden-west

Half defeated, half “this sort of ridiculousness is what made me fall in love with her and I wouldn’t have it any other way”

quinndolyns-deactivated20220403

people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money.

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

abolish-everything-deactivated2

This is a really good post

rodrickheffeley

setheverman

what is the january mood?

angel-ani

setheverman

what is the january mood?

whirlybirbs

homo-sex-shoe-whale

whats one odd/weird thing about private school that no one talks about?

The fact that you can leave your Macbooks, iPhones, AirPods, and whatnot lying around and no one will take it, because everyone already has it. But, if you leave stuff like a pencil case lying around, you will never see it again. Seriously. At my school you see expensive electronics lying around everywhere and they always remain untouched, but students will pick at unclaimed stationery like hungry vultures.

homo-sex-shoe-whale

I remember one time I was in class, and a boy found one of those expensive, large Kipling pencil cases. He asked if it belonged to anyone in the class, but no one claimed it. When he looked through it, there was no label indicating the owner. He then proceeded to take a shitload of pens, mechanical pencils, and erasers from the pencil case. Then, he closed the empty pencil case, and put it back where he found it.

The cheap ass pens he could’ve bought in bulk for $3? Incredibly important. The $45 imported pencil case? Nah, who gives a shit?

homo-sex-shoe-whale

One time I left my phone, my wallet, and a single BIC pen in my unlocked locker. When I came back, my phone and wallet were untouched, but the pen was missing.

homo-sex-shoe-whale

Also- public transport is something so alien to most students. I mentioned one time that I use the metro to commute back home from school most days, and so many kids looked at me in awe. They asked, “Why don’t you just… get a taxi?” and they are surprised to hear that I can go back home on the metro in half the time, for 1/10 of the price of a taxi.

charlesoberonn

Shortstaffing should be illegall

charlesoberonn

"But what if I can't afford to hire more employees?"

If you have more customers than your employees can handle and you're still not making enough, then you need to sort out your finances. Raise prices if necessary.

Your overhead isn't worth more than your workers' health.

elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202

Stop ironically stanning Dolly Parton and start acknowledging her for the genius that she is

unwastelandunbaby

her nonprofit the imagination library sends out monthly books, completely free of charge, to any child that wants it. anyone who knows anything about reading education will tell you that simply putting books into children’s homes is the best way to promote literacy. they even have braille and audio options!