#solving inequality

[math-journal2]

Unit 2: Inequalites

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[taruruchi]

I THINK IK WHAT TO GIVE FOR TRICK OR TREAT NOW

[exhaustedwerewolf]

thinking about my two current dnd characters who I was initially worrying are a bit similar as int/dex type fighters but have realised one has intense main character syndrome and the other has even worse npc syndrome

[evilkitten3]

for as long as i can remember, my mom has hired people to help with various things, even before my dad got sick (i assume he was also part of the process prior to that but i don't really remember)

the things that need helping with at her place have changed over time, as have the people she hires (except the handyman. same guy for as long as i can remember), but if my 65yo working mom supporting two adult disabled children by herself (was gonna say single but. she does have a boyfriend. he's just not a parent to us, and my mom isn't a parent to his kid(s?)) while also dealing with her own health issues wants to hire people to make her life a little easier, i really don't think that's anyone else's business so long as she fulfills her role as employer properly (which she does, as far as i'm aware)

it IS true that, in my experience, the people providing those services tend to be people of color. all the cleaners i can remember were latina, most of the women (and i think just about all of the men) who helped out with my father were black, the babysitters i knew growing up were i think all (definitely mostly) from laos, etc. that's not really my mom's fault - she doesn't really control the demographics of the people who provide the services she needs.

what would change if my mom hadn't hired those people? well, it's hard to say for the individual workers themselves, but i can say that my mom's life would've gotten needlessly more difficult and stressful for no good reason, which would've hampered her ability to take care of her own needs as well as mine and my brother's (and dad's, before he passed). it's true that ideally no one would have to pick between any job or nothing, but unfortunately that's not the world we live in right now. hell, my mom retired briefly back when i was in high school, but she ended up starting work again bc. well. money (also bc she got bored)

[raffaellopalandri]

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[familythings]

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[swallows-are-for-hope]

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[hussyknee]

@verycoolguy1917 the actual fuck are you talking about about. "The capitalists"— capitalism is a fucking system. I know Tankies think social justice is an MCU movie where you just gotta get rid of the Bad People, but also, that had nothing whatsoever to do with the post in the first place.

[metamatar]

some of you are being outflanked from the left by the jacobin. lol.

For many loyal Democrats, this will not compute. The Biden economy, party-loyal pundits have said over and over again, is tremendous — low unemployment, strong GDP growth, slowing inflation, a booming stock market — and anyone unhappy about it must simply be brainwashed. Out of view in this self-congratulatory hall of mirrors were the constant statistics that said otherwise: evictions up past pre-pandemic levels, record-high homelessness, cost-burdened renters at an all-time high, median household income lower than the last pre-pandemic year, inequality returning to pre-pandemic levels, and food insecurity and poverty growing by large double digits since 2021, including a historic spike in child poverty. Here’s another thing you might not have heard. Largely due to a trick of history, including the COVID-19 pandemic and a Democratic-controlled Congress, Trump was partly responsible for the creation of what the New York Times called “something akin to a European-style welfare state” in 2020 that reduced inequality and even helped some Americans improve their finances for a short spell — and under Biden, all of it went away. Sometimes that happened due to factors outside Biden’s control and sometimes because of his own decisions, but it always took place with little fight from the president, and it contributed to the ominous rise in hardship under his tenure. That meant not only adding to people’s already onerous monthly expenses — in one case in a self-imposed October surprise that made student loan repayment much more unforgiving for tens of millions of borrowers just before voting. It also saw twenty-five million people being thrown off their public health insurance, many of them in some of the battleground states Harris lost last night. Recall that one of Biden’s attack lines against Trump four years ago was that Trump was going to strip twenty million people of their health insurance. This might have been mitigated had the president passed the flagship policies on his agenda, helping people weather the storm of rising living costs. Those that he did enact he sometimes self-sabotaged. (...)

As a result, Harris’s run was a major downgrade from the 2020 Democratic effort. Biden’s never-passed ambitions to historically expand the social safety net became firmly relegated to distant memory, never to be revived; only the child tax credit and a modest expansion of Medicare benefits survived. The campaign combined a sharp rightward lurch on foreign policy and immigration with a handful of laudable populist proposals to ban price gouging and help out first-time homebuyers (while largely avoiding the national 5 percent rent cap that Biden desperately took on before dropping out and that had earlier made its way into the Democratic platform). Beyond the Medicare proposal and vague promises to protect and strengthen Obamacare, the idea of reforming the broken US health care system — one of Americans’ biggest and most anxiety-inducing costs — was almost entirely absent from the campaign. When voters in a Univision town hall came to Harris with their bleak personal stories of suffering under the health care system and asked how she would solve them, she could give them nothing, because her only real major health care policy was for those over sixty-five and already insured under Medicare.

[bluedestinybluebird]

[amplexadversary]

All of the above, and, to peer-review some tags from another thread:

additionally if you view womanhood as another person's obligation, you are a misogynist.

Assigning it like a chore or a brand is basically the same as saying women=bad.

Say it with me, because it seems some people (targeted) have forgotten this:

A gay man's lack of attraction to women is not misogyny.

A bisexual man's choice to date men is not misogyny.

A bisexual man's choice to date women is not misogyny.

A bisexual man's choice to date no one is not misogyny.

An asexual man's lack of attraction to women is not misogyny.

A trans man's response to trauma with womanhood is not misogyny.

A straight trans man's transition is not to escape misogyny, and it is not misogyny.

A bisexual trans man's choice to date men, women, neither, or both is not misogyny.

A gay trans man's lack of attraction to women and not wanting to be called a woman, is not misogyny.

Gay trans men distancing ourselves from womanhood, often as a response to being forced to be women for many years, is not misogynistic!

Queer men are not inherently more misogynistic than men who aren't queer. Queer men's queerness is not misogyny.

[chaosvanquished]

we will never reach true equality until men can buy their own iconic velvet sweatpants that say 'juicy' on the butt

[isa-renee]

how to explain to my vaguely-conservative-usually-a-republican aunt that she is literally a socialist

[honeybee-fuzz]

like you could fill a whole book with things terfs couldn’t begin to understand but ultimately their ideology boils down to their lack of intersectionality or human compassion

[ms-hells-bells]

women soon collectively will have more money than men for the first time in history (this is personal wealth, not wealth tied with businesses). this is massive because women are significantly more likely to distribute wealth and donate. the majority of donors in the world are women, and this pattern exists from the poorest to the wealthiest billionaires. so, even if we aren't immediately able to solve inequality and capitalism, even just some women taking control of wealth at the top is significantly more likely to actually trickle down by the billions.

[millionsofbooks]

Ok, so, just saw this TikTok:

For those who don't want to watch the whole thing, it's a US American woman who's doing her postgrad at Oxford and also did her undergrad in the UK, and she's talking about how she was confused by the concept of anonymous marking (when we submit work that counts towards our degrees, it's submitted under a candidate number not under our names, so it's anonymous - the marker doesn't know whose work they're marking). She then says it was explained to her that we do anonymous marking to help with the gender gap in marking (that people perceived as men get higher marks than people perceived as women for the same quality work), and says that she'd never heard of this or thought about it before. Also, she doesn't mention this, but anonymous marking is also meant to help with racial disparities - as in, people with names associated with certain ethnicities and nationalities getting lower marks than those with names associated with other ethnicities/nationalities for the same quality work.

Anyway, I was shocked to hear that this isn't a thing in the US? Or even something that's a debate? Is it actually not a thing or is it just something this particular person hasn't heard of? Also what about other countries? I just can't imagine why you wouldn't do anonymous marking it's just so obviously going to lead to bias otherwise? Like, not even necessarily due to structural oppression also just like - if you pissed off the marker at some point or something?