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Capitalism needs unemployment to function. it's not a mistake.

unemployment drives labor prices down through competition, and lets Capitalists set the price as the buyer of labor. when someone is guaranteed to die, you will do anything for it to not be you.

this one part of is how capitalism ruins people, and exploits labor for profit.

queen-mabs-revenge

"Capitalism must have unemployment to exist.

The way the boss stops you from asking for more money is to threaten you implicitly or explicitly with firing you. If there were full employment, people could ask whatever pay they want — there'd be no one to replace them.

Publications like The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times openly worry when the unemployment rate goes too low because wages go up; profit and stock values go down. Capitalism must have an army of unemployed workers in order to exist.

What do you have when you have an army of unemployed workers? You have an army of unemployed workers who want to eat.

And humans are not going to let themselves just starve. So they get involved. In illegal business."

"You're leaving out assault. Murder—"

"All business, legal and illegal, uses violence to regulate itself.

Run."

#watch i'm a virgo 💖#Youtube

bakwaaas

im at the age where ive started checking the material composition of clothes

#oh brother what is 'the age' bc yeah it's been decades at this point for me #but fr that's how i always score still style at second hand shops #the amount of linen and pure wool i bring home is scandalous #synthetics bad texture and i don't like sweating so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

queen-mabs-revenge

a bite!

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lol lmao

queen-mabs-revenge

ok in fairness we did get to see it in glimpses through the clouds - didn't take pictures bc it was so fleeting I just wanted to actually see it and it was crazy fucking hell I get why ppl have always gone apeshit over this stuff

#I did get the dragged by friends lolol 'oh the sun's luminosity is diminishing? are you phm larping rn in your mind?'#MAYBE SO.

queen-mabs-revenge

a bite!

queen-mabs-revenge

lol lmao

a bite!

#solar eclipse

swingsetindecember

i feel like people think companies will be altruistic and do the right thing regardless of government intervention. like no, companies are driven by capitalism. to make the most out of the day and money they have and maximize profits, especially fortune 500 companies

like without government intervention, strawberry jam would have wood in it. like it's a thing. food companies realized that they could use less of the expensive strawberries as ingredients and just use wood. there are laws you cannot legally call it strawberry jam if you do this. you have to call it a strawberry product or spread. food companies are always trying to get that shit through. they have lobby groups pushing that all the time

it is more expensive to put metal detectors in a food processing plant. companies want to cut costs. it is a legal requirement in a lot of countries to have them. so it forces companies to install them.

also to do routine inspections. that is a government requirement. so are building codes. a lot of codes are the bare minimum. like some companies will exceed the code and have more protections but a lot don't. like if it is not in the code, they don't do it. so that's why having governing bodies that regulate building safety, worker safety, food safety and product safety are crucial. because without them, your employer will not see the need to have exit doors with quick release handles, or do routine fire sprinkler inspections or have road salt for the sidewalks. some of it is basic fucking stuff.

companies when left alone do not regulate themselves. it's been historically untrue. companies want to give you a product that is cheap for them to make and that they can sell at the highest price so they can get the most profit. for everyone who loves capitalism, that's what it is. the free market will not self-regulate. if you don't have anti-monopoly laws and anti-wage theft laws and workers' protections, the open market will not fix that organically.

when government officials talk about removing protections it is not good. like they were put in place for a reason. like drinking water and food regulations were written in blood. same with human rights and freedoms. like people died for the building code to be written. people died for occupational healthy and safety codes to be written. there is a reason food safety codes are there. companies will look at 100 people dying and say it was the cost of doing business. it is the government's job to say that is an unacceptable and for companies to do better

wolfythewitch

On my tenth cup of coffee getting dead wife flashbacks that never happened

#GSJAHSJSJHSJGSHSJMS

mostlysignssomeportents

How it went/how it's going

#me handing out my 10 i got last month to the chosen few like a cat bestowing slow blinks

smokingrozanov

Kermit voice the sickos the perverts and me

emptyskiff

marissa's archives

#the mayhem college besties 💖

emptyskiff

phew, made a little ryland grace dress-up doll animation!

twelve outfits in total, and it's not even everything he wore... ryland grace the fashionista!! 💅🏻

#truly more fit changes than an oscar host 💁💃

the past winter i was like yeah ok but when summer time hits it'll all be ok and the entire year since the end of march has fr been

can we just? chill out? for a second maybe?

#idk when my next psych appt is for my meds but i need to remind myself that this is the shit i'm paying €70/20min to actually bring up 💀

i've just been shotgunning the worst of all possible worlds back catalog bc i can't bring myself to listen to news podcasts bc yeah yeah i already know that capitalism is gonna kill us all sooner and sooner why do I have to face The Horror dead on? i already know ok???

annabelle--cane

my personal preferred flavor of aroace grace is:

a) he has no idea that that's what he's got going on. he knows of the terms but he's got some subconscious queerphobia going on and feels like those words are only for purple haired teenagers. and he's in favor of purple haired teenagers, but that's still for Other People, it would never in a million years apply to him.

b) his "leaf in the stream of creation who just kinda does what other people ask him to" attitude extends to his interpersonal relationships and he very much has always fallen victim to the mindset that he needs a "good reason" to refuse someone romantically or sexually. mostly this means he's had a lot of pretty miserable experiences that were uncomfortable and felt bad but where the other person didn't actually do anything wrong, everything was completely above-board and as it "should" be and he still haaated it. his takeaway is that relationships and intimacy are inherently unpleasant for reasons he can't describe and in a way that he can't alter, so he'll just silo himself away from getting close with people to avoid the risk.

and c) well. that's not quite true, strictly speaking. as I said, he does know of the terms, he could think one step further and fully connect the dots. in the back of his mind he thinks about how there's maybe a version of his life out there where he's Better at everything and is able to voice his feelings and get those intimate relationships without the parts he can't handle. maybe, if he tried, he could find someone who would hear all his little buried thoughts and inadequacies and not immediately kick him to the curb. but that sounds terrifying, so he doesn't do it.

#THAT'S HIM. THAT'S THE GUY.