#Abolish Capitalism

[guiltyidealist]

new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

[millionmovieproject]

It's a holiday. For children. Give them the candy, or fuck off.

[hyperlexichypatia]

Support for tipping culture is one of the most bizarre psychological phenomena, up there with MLMs and gig work. Tipping culture doesn't benefit tipped waitstaff -- their income is less stable, they're more vulnerable to harassment, they run the risk of making no money at all -- but they think it does, because there's a possibility they might make Really Good Tips that day, because they're So Much Better than the other waitstaff. Tipping culture doesn't benefit customers -- they're paying more than the listed price for the food/service -- but they think it does, because making the waitstaff do a trained monkey dance for their pay gives them a sense of power and makes them feel like the waitstaff are their personal servants or slaves, and will willingly pay more so they can dominate someone for an hour.

It's completely illogical! But tipped waitstaff will openly say "I don't want a steady untipped wage if it means I get paid the same as the other waitstaff," and customers will openly say "I want my server to know that they only get paid if I'm happy."

I hate tipping culture so much.

it's kind of funny how question 5 (minimum wage for tipped workers) in MA failed because dumbasses (including the dumbass tipped workers themselves) uncritically swallowed Small Business Owner propaganda about how passing the bill would mean that the restaurants would Have To raise their prices and this would result in less money overall for the aforementioned Dumbass Tipped Workers. and then their propaganda worked and 1. restaurants raised their prices anyways to offset the millions of dollars they just dumped into advertising against having to pay their employees minimum wage, and 2. the majority of people i've talked to about this in my neighborhood have just stopped eating out entirely, and when they do, they tip around 10% max, or 0% at restaurants that had big proud "NO ON 5" signs in the window (funny how those came down IMMEDIATELY after the election huh). so the prices have gone up and people tip less. just like we were told was going to happen if the initiative passed. funny, that

[thoughtportal]

every clock is a cop

[mos-twin-mattress]

This was her FAVORITE time of year... She should be spending it with family... she should be be alive. I'm pissed she's not. I'm so so pissed. I'm hurt. on the verge of tears.

Please dont forget her face, her name, her smile, her caring soul.

She wanted to be a nurse. Wanted to help mothers and babies... And she never got to.

The world was a better place when she was in it...

Merry Christmas Breonna... Thinkin ab you...

[politijohn]

Source

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

In case you were wondering how screwed we all are:

The fossil fuel industry has successfully completed their infiltration and takeover of the COP climate conference. The president of COP 28 is going to be an Oil CEO.

Billions of people are going to die but the rich don’t care so long as they can maintain the status quo and continue lining their pockets.

And I’m supposed to feel bad that a couple of them got themselves squished on a voluntary trip to the bottom of the ocean???

[headedfawns]

you’ve got to throw yourself upon the gears and upon the wheels! Follow the apparatus and make it stop!

[memphisfoodnotbombs]

[worldstoforge]

All I am saying is that we should celebrate the violent fall of a tyrannical dictator because… well… so that we can remember that it can be done and should be done.

[whereserpentswalk]

Remember that abolish slavery meant no more slavery at all. And abolish monarchy meant no more kings at all. They were thought to be unrealistic in their time, things that went agaisnt human nature, but those activists understood that they needed a zero tolerance policy on those things.

So when we say abolish police, that means no police. When we say abolish prisons, that means no prisons. When we say abolish capitalism, that means no capitalism. It isn't unrealistic. It can't be compromised.

[thelindenpapers]

The whole core of how capitalist-approved "economics" works involves "people constantly acting only in their own self-interest"...

Which makes their systems patently false from the start.

Because humans are actually humane.

We evolved to be.

Despite them creating police forces and militaries and committing massacres and genocides, and enclosing common lands and enforcing hard borders and false scarcities and unnecessary cut-throat competition throughout the world -- they can't QUITE seem to condition human beings into not being human...

No matter what they do, humans will still crave the act of saving each other from dangers, and the act of being saved by other humans.

No matter what they do, humans will still need connections to community and to the earth, in order to thrive.

No matter what they do, humans will still want peace and pleasure and rest; the ability to create and to collaborate and to explore; and being able to accomplish tasks that have actual impact and meaning for themselves and for their communities.

The only way that the rich can keep playing this pointless, dick-waving, worldwide, world-destroying monopoly game they got going; is if they abolish humans, and create an economy out of bots.

[millionmovieproject]

Bastard

[lilithism1848]

[nando161mando]

[unapologeticmelancholy]