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princesspeach5 · 3 months ago

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[ID: a graphic of hands washing dishes with the caption "men and boys! Revolution begins in the sink! Only when men take full responsibility for their share of the cooking, the cleaning, and the washing up… only then can they join with the women, and together build a new world!!!" End ID.]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

#counter to point one: 'we can't stop this machine from punching you because that's just what it does'#looking through the notes for an id and they're pretty much aaaallll good points #like saying retired people do tons of stuff and that we'd also have to regulate how much rent could be and how does this guy #run a school and not see the unpaid labor of teachers and that moving the bar for a better rock bottom isn't a bad thing etc etc #also about the last comment. 'productive' being the word they use when they mean obedient in the educational system is so real #kids Know the difference between learning and memorizing information they don't need for a test and trading their mental health to do it #actually the workforce isn't how we keep society going it's a threat #important

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