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Lilac Irises, by Claude Monet

I'm definitely into my latest solid reboot / clawing my way out of The Hole™ attempt, did all my morning life tasks 2 days in a row, wish me luck

#divergent #personal #text #o

socialmaya

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

sylestial

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

scallioncreamcheesebagel

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

tayefeth

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

antique-scarecrow

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

downtroddendeity

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

antiterfbutch

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

#I try to limit the amount of this I reblog #but this is worthwhile

I still need an ADHD body doubling / accountability buddy / Dreaded Task encouragement / zero judgement check-in partner on some sort of messaging service btw. I give as good as I get in such a scenario unless I am mortally depressed which is pretty rare, maybe 2 days a month 😅

my tumblr app doesn't properly create notifications, but I know 3 fairly lightweight messaging apps which won't steal your data, or ask for/reveal any personal info.

#pls #actually audhd #actually adhd #divergent #text #o

assuming I get paid shortly, and have the motivation to make pots this weekend, I should be able to start my succulent collection in just a couple weeks.

#i will upcycle plastic rice cups into pots #depression fighting tools #personal #text #o