#anticapialism

[solar-sunnyside-up]

yk the hard thing about community and family and networking and just in general connecting to people around you is it hurts.

Idk bout everyone else but I was raised in such isolation breaking down these walls of House, Neighbor, Isolated punk, etc... arent just draining to me but also ache in a weird way like rebreaking bones that healed wrong.

[red-flag-news]

"We're all in this together?"

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

A workplace that tells you to “take care of you mental health” is a workplace reminding you that any loss of productivity due to stress or trauma will result in your unemployment. 

[vitamin-sea-mia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4B8dHP4Fg

Jinger Dip A Sail

Your ship is called Capitalism Anchor down It runs for dear life on the wind Of corruption Defective compass serves to your purpose But soon as sweat of sailors dries You'll hit the bottom and go ashore

[solar-sunnyside-up]

*ppl have less time off then ever seen before in human history!! (Even peasants had harvest festivals and excessive amounts of religious/seasonal holidays to keep them from rioting)

*There is a larger $$ disparity between the top and the middle class of people then during the French revolution!!

*Ppl work more and harder - with only slightly more or less depending on decade- since the Industrial Revolution (Before this, the ave person worked 20 hour weeks all the way back to the start of societies, if you take in how much time off and hard labors off seasons into account)

*There has never been a more unstable access to housing and control over your personal shelter (yes, ppl have been held in slavery and impoverished but tbh this is the first time ppl can look at places to live and simply not have access to comfy place to build camp at least) *The starvation rate of people has been higher sure, but food insecurity has never been so wide spread, not to mention our food waste also caps out every years

Oh Also!! If you cant work 'hard enough' to pay your bills its your fault! If you cant leave the house on the way to work 'early enough' to catch a bus that shows up once every hour your the one at fault not the system. You where gunna buy a small coffee or treat on your way? Hahah with what spare change? You have to pay your electricity bill this week. Now get to work at a job you hate!!

[solar-sunnyside-up]

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[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Do you know of any resources on how society should deal with e-waste? My automatic instinct was recycling since afaik many metals are highly recyclable (moreso than paper or plastic) but apparently the process for recycling electronics releases highly toxic chemicals. Is there a better way?

The answer to your question heavily depends on context.

A lot of what I worked with was vintage electronics. As a general rule older electronics have larger components. Removing, replacing, or repairing a larger component is easier than a smaller one. However you run into the obvious problem of compatibility. You can’t grab a ZX-Spectrum and expect it to functionally replace your smarphone any more than you could pull out a chip from one and insert it into the other.

With all pollutants, the best approach is to start at the source rather than clean up the result. In this particular context standardization of components and spread out generations of hardware release would be a massive improvement focused on production itself.

That is to say – instead of having dozens of competing brands and components with slightly different specifications we should establish a standardized hardware setup. Remove the market competition from the equation, and consequently you greatly reduce the production of future e-waste.

Dealing with existing microelectronic waste requires a great deal of material science, beyond what a typical community is capable of. (Chemical processes to separate the metals from plastics, etc.) It is also an expensive and time-consuming process, and consequently capitalism has no reason to pursue it.

We can’t clean up the world without economic change. If you want to stop pollution, stop the economy that necessitates it.