#just because capitalism exists

[askshivanulegacy]

It's not "evil" to have investments. It's not "evil" to have a 401K, and it's not "evil" to have investments outside of that. It's normal. It's perfectly fine and it's practical if you have the ability to do it.

Are people honestly saying you should NOT use the money you have efficiently? That you should NOT do whatever is in your capability to secure a safe and reliable retirement? That you should, as consequence, work forever until you drop and never take advantage of systems that are meant to provide for you?

This type of thing is entirely non-ethical. Financial investment is NOT tied to the concept of ethical judgement. It is neither morally "good" nor morally "bad." It is a tool you can use for yourself to provide for yourself. This is especially important because no one else is going to do it for you or hold your hand. Most jobs aren't offering retirement, and the ones that do aren't necessarily reliable. You need to look after yourself.

It's entirely your own personal choice if you want to make up the idea that investments are "evil," and therefore create a fake moral high ground to not take care of yourself and to manufacture fake guilt trips for people who are doing that. But the people with sense are going to ignore that, and they're going to have something at the end of the day and you are not.

You are not evil because you have investments or retirement accounts.

Telling poor people that signing up for a 401K makes them evil is not praxis you stupid, stupid motherfucker.

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[fuumiku]

It was Maid Day today yesterday a week ago so I got struck by inspiration to draw the worsties, and it ran away from me into a whole AU where they’re coworkers at a maid cafe. She’s a med student & this is just a part time job, and this is his depression job while he gets his life back together. He needs something he can be workaholic about to forget what it’s like having a personal life and personal issues. He’s actually the accountant, but the new hire janitor (Izutsumi) doesn’t show up for half her shifts and is a sloppy worker, so he gets the extra work of doing her job on top of his because he’s undervalued and overworked. Of course, janitors also have an uniform to keep the aesthetic cohesion as they go about cleaning the place, of course.

Senshi’s the part time cook you only see slivers off, he’s kind and warm when you do see him and have a chat but most shifts he’s in and out the kitchen without a trace. Laios and Falin are regulars because Falin and Marcille are besties & in the same med school, Laios accompanies Falin as she visits her friend at work and gets hooked on the food. Chilchuck has to remind Marcille to work instead of chatting with Falin for an hour, and next thing he knows she’s distracting him from work too. That’s it that’s the AU. Inspired by this idol AU fanart a bit <3

This was not meant to be birthday gift but well…… Happy bday Chil!!!

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[cookinguptales]

the horrors truly do keep horroring but at least I have pumpkin whipped cream for my coffee now

little wins

[theyarerealtome]

Surely someone must have written the Everlark Gilmore Girls AU right? Because like -

Fiercely independent single mother Katniss Everdeen raising her sweet, intelligent daughter Prim (who is so close in age they’re practically sisters), and friends with the bakery/café owner Peeta who keeps her fed in cheese buns and bread, and sees her everyday while quietly and patiently pining.

FT: Best friend Madge who Katniss later opens a business with. Grumpy town eccentric Haymitch. Flamboyant dance studio owner and gossip Effie. Prim's best friend Rue who Katniss also ends up mothering because that's who she is. Estranged mother Mrs Everdeen who Katniss felt abandoned by but adores Prim. Local fashion designer Cinna who took Katniss in when she first arrived. And then Prim’s father and Katniss’s teenage sweetheart Gale comes back around periodically wanting another chance but doesn’t realise they’ve changed too much to ever be together.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

when i was created the universe did not give me the patience necessary to become an artist simply because it knew that the world wasn't ready for my magnificent ideas. such as "tma except it's ultrakill" or "tmagp except it's cruelty squad"

[lynsstrange]

an interesting experience as a person who’s life is consumed with art is trying to explain to my friend who doesn’t enjoy listening to music (yes. music. period.) that I write fanfiction out of the love of my heart. She asked me “do you get paid for it?” And I was like “…no?” And she genuinely couldn’t comprehend that I would spend time pouring attention and love into something with no monetary/tangible reward. She laughed in shock and went “I’d never do that.” I think both of us were in disbelief by the end of the conversation

[xiii-e]

//ooc posting: I NEED to find more fun/silly things to do with my two they are Not meant to be all agony all the time I swear- I just have a penchant for the dramatic and they're a little in the torment nexus o(-< but on god they will Have Fun too

[nubuckleather]

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[purpletrashcans]

can we just stop this whole capitalism thing? it's clearly not working and to be honest it is quite annoying

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

[stealthnoodle]

I see there's a new post on AO3 on AI and data scraping, the contents of which I would describe as a real mixed bag, and the sheer number of comments on it is activating my self-preservation instincts too much for me to subject myself to reading through them. Instead I'm thinking about how much daylight there is between does or doesn't constitute a TOS violation and what does or doesn't violate community norms, and how AO3 finally rolled out that blocking and muting feature recently, and how I think it would be good, actually, if most people's immediate reaction to seeing a work that announces itself as being the product of generative AI was to mute the user who posted it.

That's my reaction, anyway!

[talkorsomething]

I have Got to get more transgender

[scarletfasinera]

This was said by someone who confidently declared that a hand-painted sci-fi art piece from the 70s made by a human artist was AI art and therefore bad, and then was proven wrong about it being AI-generated. I wonder what this says about your views of artists and art in general as a subject actually.

[redysetdare]

As someone who is disabled and was called Lazy for things out of my control, I just wanna say that personally I don't think the conversation around laziness should be on if it exists or not but rather making it morally neutral and the context dictating if it's good or bad.

Because by saying everyone who is lazy is just disabled feels... Idk wrong in a way? Because a man that is doing malicious willful ignorance towards his girlfriend/wife IS him being lazy. There is no underlying disability that contributes to his laziness in this scenario. There are kids in school who put all the work on one person for a group project, they ARE being lazy. There are people who will force their kids, partners, or roommates to do all the chores who are lazy. There are men who believe women should do all the housework and childcare because they are too lazy to learn those skills.

But also... Relaxation is laziness too. A good kind of laziness. A laziness where you put yourself first. Laziness is resting because you decided you didn't want to do chores today. laziness is deciding to take a nap instead of vacuuming. Laziness is only doing the minimum amount of work required of you because you shouldn't be expected to do more. Laziness can be part of self care and I think the way we fight how laziness is perceived isn't by removing it entirely but rather slowly changing people's perception of laziness. We need to change people's idea of what it looks like and change the assumption that it's always a bad thing. It's neutral. It's a choice. The context surrounding ones choice to be lazy is what makes it negative or positive.

Capitalism has made us assume laziness is always bad. We forgot we need laziness to be able to relax. Laziness is an unwillingness to work - that isn't bad.

[wowitsverycool]

how are these people out here thinking *society* can be scientifically analyzed but not the brain