#internalized capitalism

[nando161mando]

how to know you've internalized capitalism

[articlesofnote]

i feel terrible about taking sick days

took the day off work today because i woke up feeling crummy - headache and sore-ish throat. honestly not too unusual, and most of the time i would just "power through it" and do a day's work anyway; easier to make that decision these days, what with working from home and all.

but today, as i sometimes do, i decided to just take a sick day and sleep instead of "powering through." and EVERY TIME i do this i go through the same internal struggle of "oh i'm not really that sick, i need to go to work, i have metrics i need to hit, people are relying on me, it'll look bad if i take time off this soon after i was on vacation, i don't want people to think i'm flaking" etc. etc. of course, as i mentioned, i ended up taking the day anyway, but it feels more like something i'm doing in spite of myself rather than something that's actually the right thing to do in a self-care sense.

where the hell does this struggle come from? or struggles? what insecurities are coming up when i start saying to myself "actually i need to not go to work today"?

which reminds me of a time when i had made plans with a friend that required me to take the afternoon off work. could easily have done it, just needed to make the request a few weeks out, in all likelihood no problems would have resulted.

instead i... didn't make the request. put it off and put it off, for weeks, then lied to my friend that they had turned me down and i didn't get the afternoon off. ended up fucking up the plan we had made. reflecting on this event was what made me realize i needed to start seeing a therapist, and did so, which helped. but boy oh boy is that unhealthy relationship with work still lurking in my mind-brain, and boy oh boy does it come up at times like this.

[definite-human]

because capitalism has convinced you that life and relaxation exist to increase your productivity, rather than productivity existing so you can have what you need to enjoy life and relaxation

why does it feel morally wrong to spend all day in bed or at home. like i do it often but the whole time im wracked with guilt. it's literally not hurting anybody

[prokopetz]

About twenty years back, there was this weird transitional period after companies had figured out that harvesting their users' demographic information was a potential gold mine but before we lived in a hellish panopticon where any website operator could look up your IP address and know what you had for breakfast where some sites would try to get you to fill out, like, detailed demographic surveys before they'd let you access their stuff. Not just age, gender and geographic location, either – some of them would fish for employment status, marital status, brand preferences, even religious affiliation. A lot of folks I knew would just pick the first option in every dropdown, but my move was always to fill in the demographic information of the current Pope, at least as far as I was able to determine it (brand preference was always a tricky one). I like to think that, thanks to my efforts, their data sets are haunted to this day by a phantom pontiff.

[pinknecko]

My Body; Who Do I Owe A Flat Belly?

I did a social field study today ����

The midsection is one of the most scrutinized parts of a body in western society. People go to dangerous lengths to achieve a certain standard, certain proportions, all to avoid social retribution. As a Black woman, the current standard under Black hegemonic masculinity in a heteronormative culture is to have a fat ass, and somehow, a flat stomach. Too little of us meet this standard naturally…

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

[healingwgabs]

this includes government and your work place

Make peace with needing attention, validation, love, encouragement, support and care from other people because it's not actually the character flaw which this hyper-individualist society is trying to make it out to be. Needing other people isn't the same as failing to be your own person, it's a part of the process

[softer-ua]

So I’ve been joking for a while about how Inko manages to afford all of Izuku’s AM merch

But I decided to nerd out and look closer, and I’m pretty sure the only expensive piece Izuku owns is the poster he got from Sir

You might think his dorm looks absolutely stacked

but that’s only because it’s a very small room and he brought every piece he owns

If you look in his old room it’s all the same posters

so he’s owned it all for at least a few years, he’s been working up to this for god knows how many years, just to be the proud owner of 5 posters so basic even he would put tape on them

All of his figures are less than 50$

One of which he’s had since he was a child

And it doesn’t look like the other unidentified figures are anything special either(except maybe AM in his yellow suit)

Izuku only has generic fanboy shit, like maybe one of the posters is a custom but I honestly I don’t think he owns a single special anything

The dead guy poster is 100% the coolest thing he has, no wonder he’s so reverent about it 💀

As for fits this is all we’ve really seen is

So yeah Inko isn’t dropping stacks on merch, I’m pretty sure those sweaters were a 2 for 1 deal because they’re almost identical 💀

[politijohn]

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[toneyowen]

They called them the greatest generation cause their internalized capitalism and war worship propaganda was written by master of lyricism Cole Porter. Can't wait for those missing nukes to splode me into meatballs or at least mutate my talent gland

[danoree]

art dump of sketches and stuff that felt too shitposty or simple for their own post 🔥🙏

[guerrillatech]

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clark addresses a crowd on the steps of Paremata

[lilithism1848]

[historybizarre]

May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, falls on May 1. But you'd be forgiven if that's news to you. While the day traces its origins to an American laborers' fight for a shorter work day, the U.S. does not officially recognize International Labor Day. .... Decades before the 8-hour work-day became the country's norm, the organization now known as the American Federation of Labor set May 1, 1886, as the date that workers nationwide should go on strike to demand the 8-hour workday.

[magz]

A ton of job postings might actually be fake

Article date: June 24, 2024

Article Blurb:

A new survey from Resume Builder revealed that 39% of hiring managers said their company posted a fake job listing in the past year.

The disheartening results show that among those who posted fake jobs, “approximately 26% posted one to three fake job listings, 19% posted five, 19% posted 10, 11% posted 50, 10% posted 25, and 13% posted 75 or more.”

The fake jobs ranged from entry-level roles to executive positions, said Resume Builder, which surveyed 649 hiring managers.

Companies said they are posting fake jobs for a laundry list of reasons, including to deceive their own employees.

More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.”

Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”

Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.”

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Magz Note: Keep in mind this is of those (presumably majority U.S.) companies that *admitted* to posting fake jobs in anonymous survey, so could be higher. Many job seekers have realized the "ghost jobs" phenomenon of fake job listings (plus, job scams) and its increase in recent years.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Concentration camps, endless border walls and concertina wire, and armed groups of fascists are not contradictions to a First World consumer culture of electric cars, Starbucks, and online shopping... these elements of the global commodity supply chain are co-constitutive and necessary elements of the for-profit system.

Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism