#Wage Gains

[nyaaamato]

orpheus & eurydice

[thewistlingbadger]

I think one of the reasons season 2 didn't work for a lot of us is because they got rid of the political elements of the story. Politics were at the core of the story in season 1. Arcane is the tale of two cities, the oppressor and the oppressed, and if you don't talk about that if you ignore it your story is going to suffer. What makes the season 1 finale so gut wrenching is that the politics of the show is getting resolved. We've seen these Zaunites fight for freedom, and just as the council does the vote for peace, everything blows up. You can't tell the story of arcane without political commentary and that's what they tried to do in season 2.

[shithowdy]

While your comment on non-US artists’ prices are valid it also shows your US-centrism………………. Not all people can pay in USD. In my country it’s somewhat similar that 20 is worth a 100, so this thinking is cutting out a majority of the customers who don’t earn in USD. Why are you Americans so stupid hahahah

I had a feeling someone would come at me with this when I made that post, but if you are going to be advertising your prices in USD and in english on social media sites that are by default already very western-centric communities (twitter, reddit, tumblr), you are going to and most certainly intend to attract largely American and western european customers. If that is the currency you are using to advertise yourself in a freelance position where you have the opportunity to set your own labor value, then you are literally selling yourself short. Would you rather do a single drawing for 100 USD, or burn yourself out over five drawings for 20USD? The monetary outcome is the same, but in the first, your time is more respected.

Art is a luxury and a skill, not a basic life necessity like food that must be openly available to all who need it. You don't need a "majority" of customers paying you minimum wage if you have a small handful of customers paying you much greater sums.

The onus is not just on the artist to change this, though. US customers also need to stop taking advantage of international artists and pay them the same they would pay a local artist, and if they see someone setting prices like that, there had better be a meaty tip attached.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[yutamayo]

[declamationark]

I feel like Atsushi would so over the moon and swear undying loyalty to whoever showed him how to get his own library card. He'll be treating it like his most prized possession, second only to Chazuke

[kumakuma-circus]

shoutout to my playthrough of p4 where i played for like a month straight, got to like a week before hollow forest, stopped playing for like a month, started playing again, got through the last week and hollow forest, started izanami's dungeon, and then got demotivated partway through and haven't played for like two months. i'll finish it someday-

[orjizzy]

work: (pays minimum wage) since everyone keeps stealing food we will no longer offer the staff free meals and you are no longer allowed to eat unless you're off the clock, or else risk termination

me: (makes minimum wage) can i please be scheduled at least 30 hours so i can be allowed food stamps

[seoafin]

I started watching PLUTO and I have so many thoughts about it it's so good

[gideonthefirst]

girl my roommates are insane. just absolutely top tier inarguably insane. i’m exhausted i’m sick i’m having an asthma attack there’s something new wrong with me and no one knows what and yet what i’m STILL most stressed about is having to survive living with them for another two weeks.

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

on a serious note going through active shooter training with people older than me on the order of decades makes me think that much more people would probably agree on tighter gun controls than younger generations realize. they just either can’t bring themselves to discuss it openly or feel like such discussion wouldn’t be welcome

[azurescaled-archived]

i still wanna do more stuff with izumi's corrupted verse.

[kkeomchiz]

I GOT PAID

[rampagingpoet]

The $100m cutoff also makes a lot of sense, because there was a good reason unrealized capital gains were not previously taxed: housing.

If you own a house, and the value of that house increases in theory, should you pay tax on that? It's not clear how much your house would actually sell for, and we wouldn't want landlords buying up all the surrounding property to force existing residents out because they can't afford the capital gains tax on their house they are very much using.

But if you've got one hundred million dollars, even your most expensive property is a mere fraction of that total. Tax on unrealized gains isn't going to force you out of your home.

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Conservatives are going nuts oner this

[johnfpederson]

morning dove (112)

are you out of your mind?

or in greed has your spirit resigned?

have you taken your wage

from a few counterfeit erudites?

is the hour not well-nigh

to be rid of your marvelous guise?

will you finally accept

what you have so vehemently denied?

when you've lost all you've worked for

and your name's been decried

when they come looking for you

where will you go to hide?

have you traded your rights

for a chance to feel puissant again

to nefarious coldblooded men

who will pawn them for marginal gains?

were they lying in wait

for the hour you needed them most

when their lies had corrupted your bones

and they knew you'd come back for more?

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

im doin a project on comic and comic film adaptation history and im SO upset that this is a group project i hate having to wait for other's feedback i just wanna get stuck in a flow state for five hours and come out of it with my back hurting and my research 90 percent done.