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music snobs are so boring all this “pop music is the worst thing to ever happen” please go listen to some carly rae jepson and maybe you’ll calm down

madsiemoon

✨💘⛅️🍰

porterr-robinson

miss-maela

Gotta have sound on

fandomsandfeminism

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

cranberrybogmummy

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

fandomsandfeminism

Yes.

caosdth

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

fandomsandfeminism

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.

aflawedmind

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

fandomsandfeminism

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

twodotsknowwhy

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

whenandwhereienter

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

fandomsandfeminism

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

fandomsandfeminism

Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.

You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.

(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )

Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.

bando--grand-scamyon

$10,000 an HOUR while most of us barely making $12. Can y’all conceptualize now?

glizzygaymer

Will always reblog

randomslasher

Because this is still a difficult set of numbers for some folks to comprehend (legitimately–our brains have a hard time conceptualizing big numbers) a really good example I like to use is the difference between a million and a billion in time.

1 million seconds is approximately 11 days.

1 billion seconds is just shy of 32 years.

sunsetbabe

Taylor Swift’s Albums 2006-2019

tikkunolamorgtfo

I love it when people try to claim representation in fiction is being taken “too far” to the point where it’s no believable. They’re like:

“What’s next, a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum?” Hi, my name is Rachel, also known as Rachna, and I’m a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum.

“What’s next, a transgender Latino man with chronic pain?” What, you mean my former colleague, Marco?

“What’s next, a Black Jewish lesbian?” Bitch, I know I three Black Jewish lesbians, WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING POINT?

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

im so tired of the argument being “what’s next? a feasible combination of human conditions other than straight white cis able-bodied dude? that can’t possibly happen!”

official-cisphobe

“What’s next? A person? A person that exists? A person that is alive along with thousands of other similar people?”

demoniac

isa-ghost

If a woman has

STARCH MASKS

O N H E R B O D Y

does that mean

she has been pGReNant bef o r e?

alsolucimorningstar812

DANGEROPS

Pranget sex?

Will it hurt baby top of his head????

isa-ghost

Can uu get,,,

𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮

alsolucimorningstar812

38+2 weeks

PREGANANANT

charlioak

can uu go down a

20 foot waterslide

while uu are

PEGNAT?

lesbian-bookworm

For anyone who doesn’t know what this is referencing

five-flats

this video legit never fails to make me laugh and i’ve seen it god knows how many times

rtrixie

In the good timeline, a ban on government and corporate use of facial recognition software would be a major election issue

rtrixie

Let’s be clear here, there is no legitimate use for mass scale facial recognition tools. None. In every case it will lead to a total erosion of what remains of your privacy.

Not the police, not tech companies, no one should be able to track and identify you in an instant wherever you go.

Right now we’re possibly at the last point in time where this technology can be banned across the board before it’s suddenly everywhere and the argument will be “but everyone is using it, so we can’t do anything about it”.

Facial recognition should absolutely be a major issue right now.

queeranne

It’s okay if you don’t want to label yourself but please stop saying “labels are so unnecessary, we are all humans” because so many people have been struggling with their identity for a long time and need a word to hold onto, a group to belong to and people to look up to.