#i hate participating in capitalism

[oca-rinn-a]

Hearing people talk about the need to build more affordable housing in the US makes me physically sick with frustration. The "housing shortage" is artificial. We need redistribution, not continued production. I get that the laws aren't there. They should be. I'm so tired of people pretending there aren't dragon-hoards of vacant housing. We don't need to build more, we need a revolution to let people fill in the spaces which already exist in their area. Not letting someone have a house that's been empty for years, just because they don't have money... I can't understand it. It's the most basic thing. Once you have shelter, you can start to come back to yourself enough to get the rest of your life together. *sigh* I understand that building more houses is necessary under this stupid fucking system, because a revolution is much more difficult and slow, and people need housing ASAP. I just get so mad thinking about how there are physically plenty of spots they could be (There are over 20 vacant homes in the US for each homeless person), and people are using profit and capitalist principles as an excuse to keep them from being there.

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Good news! After doing the maths, I realised I could lower the prices even further-

So, yes. Moving from etsy to Ko-fi... messy. And I was (am) really nervous about losing all my good ratings and reviews (though they are still visible if you look at my etsy page, I think?), making no sells at all, etc... and yes that is still a worry.

However. After taking a closer look at the numbers once I made a sale and seeing that the cut paypal takes is slightly smaller than I anticipated, I have now lowered the prices :)

(I also want to point out that the shipping fee is per order, NOT per item.)

[shadybug]

i really just do not trust makeship. i feel like people should think more about where their merch is physically being made before hopping on a bandwagon, ESPECIALLY for something as complex and labor-intensive as limited run plushies.

makeship talks a lot about how much they take care of their artists and design/logistics team, but has nothing about their manufacturers on their website. all of their employees are remote, which is something they brag about on their site, so i'm certain they outsource the actual plush creation. given their prices and what i know about plush manufacturing, i don't have much faith that the people actually making the plushies are paid/treated well.

[bunnihearted]

the earth is getting hotter and hotter and nobody's doing anything about it but im misanthropic and depressive because i can see nothing that inspires hope 🤙

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I know this one guy who enjoys doing this singular menial labor task when they can set their own hours, only work to their personal standard, focus only on the aspects of the work they personally find fulfilling, only do the work either by themselves or exclusively with their close personal friends, only share the benefits of that work with either themselves or the people they personally care about, and quit whenever they stop enjoying it. This means that if we get rid of capitalism everyone would just sorta be cool about it and work the lithium mines.

[draw-me-some-stories]

Not a swiftie, but fuck that killed me.

You know what Taylor, I do hate it here.

[gentlelarkspur]

Please look upon these hilarious mockup photos I made for the tshirt/sweater designs I'm selling over on Etsy.

Tag yourself, I'm the "no YOU hang up" vampire XD

[artemisiatridentata]

single people who hate Valentine’s Day are corny. die in my arms

[clingylilhoneybee]

:(

[snapdougles]

always loved this analogy and okay not that I think anyone following me needs to be more radicalized, but here's where things get absolutely fucked:

The opposite of "it's more expensive to be poor than rich" is that the easiest way to make money, is to have money. Goes without saying that inheriting wealth is the "easiest", and obviously people with a lot of money can invest in into assets/seek out passive income from owning property etc. but what's really absolutely totally fucked about it, is that you don't even need to spend a fucking penny or lift a finger if you are rich enough.

Let's say you have a neat little £1,000,000, for the average person (almost 10% of the world could be considered millionaires) it's a decent amount of money, you might be able to live off of just the 1,000,000 without making more money, but considering that would be £12,500 a year for 80 years, it's a little dicey, you know, cost of living and all. So you could invest in assets for ongoing income, like renting out property, or owning a company, or trading in stocks etc. which would be how make more money most conveniently, but what if you just couldn't be bothered and were feeling really lazy, what if you didn't want to spend your money?

Conveniently, you don't have to. You can just save it, and the bank will make money for you. If you had just a 3% interest rate, and you put £1,000,000 into savings, after a year, your savings goes up by £30,000, that's a salary. If you had a £1,000,000, you literally would get a fucking job's worth of money FOR DOING NOTHING WITH THE MONEY THAT YOU HAVE. Once you have enough money, it literally makes itself, winners keep winning, and losers have to pay.

And bear in mind, this is a "relatively" low £1,000,000 with and interest of 3%. If I had say, £100,000,000 at 5% interest, that would be £5,000,000 per year, in interest.

Let's say, I had £1,000,000,000 (Being a billionaire is a lot less common than being a millionaire, there are 2781 currently, for a total of 0.00003% of the world population). 5% of that is £50,000,000.

Obviously people this rich aren't just sitting around with all their wealth in a savings account, but like the point is that it doesn't fucking matter what they do, wealth will literally coalesce because that is how the system works.

Capitalism is the biggest god damn fucking scam in the world, success under capitalism means not having to participate under capitalism. If you are wealthy, the owner of the bootmakers will give you free boots because you 'deserve' it, you've earned it by having enough, and you wouldn't have enough if you hadn't earned it, of course.

According to the owners at least, apparently the people actually making the boots have to pay for them if they want them.

Where do the boots come from?

happy glorious 25th of may

[cvntywizard]

i often feel like i would rather shoot myself than accomplish even the most menial work task what is wrong with me?? do not want to eat or pay rent???

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Good news! After doing the maths, I realised I could lower the prices even further-

So, yes. Moving from etsy to Ko-fi... messy. And I was (am) really nervous about losing all my good ratings and reviews (though they are still visible if you look at my etsy page, I think?), making no sells at all, etc... and yes that is still a worry.

However. After taking a closer look at the numbers once I made a sale and seeing that the cut paypal takes is slightly smaller than I anticipated, I have now lowered the prices :)

(I also want to point out that the shipping fee is per order, NOT per item.)

[finex7]

I'm hungry and exhausted and there's still 1 hour 15 minutes left before my shift ends 😭

[solemntitty]

i went outside and there were many people. i went back inside. i prefer. vastly. the indoors

[minnieposting]

capitalism and its horrifying effects on us

[aquacitys]

i hate the concept of investing money soooo much literally making money off of other money no labor or anything of value involved and i hate how everyone makes you feel like it is a necessity so you can even have a shot at stuff like homeownership. sorry but WHY is simply working and saving your money not enough anymore????