#the almighty dollar

[icarus-suraki]

Hey, Tumblr! Let's do some math!

My current apartment, 1bed 1bath, 765 sqft (about 71 sqm) costs $1,337/month. That's just rent, no other expenses.

Okay, so all the financial guidelines say your pay should be 3x your rent per month.

So my apartment is $1337/month. So three times that: 1337 x 3 = 4011

4011 / 4 = 1003 (rounded)

1003 / 40 = 25

So I need to be paid $25 an hour to meet that advice.

Twenty-five dollars. An. Hour.

How much per hour are a lot of jobs around here? $12-$15 an hour--and that's way above minimum wage here ($7.25). It's still $10/hr less than I'd need to make that 1/3rd-of-the-rent rule.

And this is not accounting for any other expenses (like food, electricity, water, the misc. expenses landlords like to tack on, insurance, car expenses, &c).

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

[777durt777]

💲💲💲

[danu2203]

CAPITALISM KILLS

[chaos-creations]

An Open Letter To Money

Who do you think you are? You sit there smugly and claim to be worth anything and everything I could ever want or need. You pretend that you’re the most important resource in the world, more so than even food or shelter. You claim yourself above everything and everyone else – to the point of declaring your own demigod status. “The Almighty Dollar” my ass.

What worth do you have, really? What intrinsic value makes you such an important resource? You don’t feed people, you don’t clothe people, and you certainly don’t shelter anybody. “Oh but you can trade me for goods and services,” you shout, but what does that make you other than a shitty gatekeeper?

And what a shitty gatekeeper you are! You aren’t content for “goods and services” to just be fun things and trivialities. No, you have to lock away the basic necessities of life behind your gilded claws. Someone starving to death in an alleyway outside a grocery store? Too bad for them, they have to have you to get the food they need. A sick child needs an operation? Oh too bad, Tiny Tim, daddy Cratchet doesn’t make enough to keep you above ground!

You know the worst part? You are only worth what we say you’re worth. We are the ones who have let you get like this.

Without our decision as a society that it’s more important to maintain your value than it is to keep actual living people safe, happy, and fed the world at large wouldn’t be as scary or harsh as it is. We could have, should have put protections in place to prevent you from becoming the all-encompassing menace that you are. People kill over you. People die for you and you sit there proudly proclaiming your superiority. I hate you.

I envision a world without you.

I envision a world where people work together to make sure everyone is safe, fed, and happy. I envision a world where community gardens and shared workloads keep everyone’s bellies full. I envision a world where doctors tend the sick based on who needs care most, not who has the biggest wallet. I envision without greed, a world built on mutual aid and the love of our fellow man. I envision a world where people use the skills and abilities they have to make the world a better place for everyone around them.

I envision a better, kinder world. A world we can’t have while you reign supreme.

[ouatihell]

if I have to contact the library of congress so I can watch this silly little split-reel film with my silly little dead actor man of the week so help me god

[victusinveritas]

[mousemannation]

Prize money for the Six Kings Slam

Each of the six men to feature are guaranteed a minimum £1.12million* for their involvement, a sum that vastly exceeds that given to losing semi-finalists at this year's Wimbledon.

The winner meanwhile will take home an eye-watering £4.5million**, nearly twice as much as the previous highest awarded to 2024 US Open winner Sinner. 

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*2,324,505.41 AUD / 1,605,142.31 USD / 1,437,619.55 EURO

**8,716,895.29 AUD / 6,019,283.67 USD / 5,391,073.32 EURO

[trashogram]

lucifer eats pussy laying on his stomach with his feet kicking the air he’s so unserious i love him

Omg he does. He so does! He’s so happy, he turns into such a giggly bitch, especially when he gets a big reaction. It’s like a shot of dopamine for him.

[bokujou-monogatari]

fun cool non bokumono but igusa related fact

apparently igusa matsuyama worked on a bamco ip, specifically Papipu Pet (a brand started by Kenji Watanabe! yknow, the tamagotchi guy?)

cool guy igusa did a set of adventures for it, and some of the pages even include GB3 artwork that was thrown in for the magazine it was produced for!

and yes, I own these!

[ourladyofomega]

Playfield for Bally's The Six Million-Dollar Man pinball table.

📸: Pinside

[takamoris]

Money, the lack of money, and the requirement to have money in order to survive are the sources of literally all of my deepest problems. I need America to burn, and I need capitalism to burn as well.

[traitorestraven]

probably not going to go back to writing aew fic for a while but i am trying to think of ways to smash together cm punks absolutely bonkers jesus symbolism with mjf's personification of jewish masculine anxiety in a way that is sexy and fun instead of just vaguely antisemitic

[needhamcomics]

Needham Comics Covers

Covers from Needham Comics, including Action figure variants.

[therelignedstars]

Tag dump.

[abrthephantomq]

Someone recovering from autistic / corporate burn out, here:

I went on leave from my job at the beginning of Feb 2023. I officially quit in May 2023.

I...am not sure I'm recovered, yet. I have not worked a job since Feb 2023. I'm only just now starting to entertain trying to survive off of my child support from my ex-wife and my writing, because at least I can decide whether I work or not. And by entertain I mean actually looking at paying zine markets and nudging myself to take a shot at it, while I also work on my novel series and processing my mental health bullshit in the process of it all.

It's a lot. It requires a lot of rest. A lot of dicking around on the internet and a lot of journaling and making visual art for the sake of just... Processing. Sitting in my trauma. Letting my body actually recover from, well, fuck. Since my childhood? Idk, I'm a CSA survivor. I am also part of a DID system - so this process has to work for ALL of us, and allow everyone a chance to heal and rest and process, and that takes even more time. It takes unlearning masking behavior on several fronts: the autism front, and the oh, I'm not who you were talking to 4 seconds ago, front.

It's been a journey. It's still on going. But hey, one of our littles has picked up painting - she absolutely loves it. She's even getting comfortable enough putting her signature on them:

Alicia had resolved that she just only ever wants to write for fun. Cas wants to learn how to write. I want to actually dedicate time to learning how to draw, and eventually make comics Andrew wants to learn how to effectively write fanfiction as opposed to gripping, essay-like nonfiction - and as a group we want to learn how to write a properly non-linear narrative that actually reflects some of the mental health work we've done in the past 4 years since Alex broke through their denial barrier.

Rest and making art. Those are the two things that have kept us going since Feb 2023. We started with putting together puzzles. We moved on to learning minor video editing skills. We became entrenched in tarot / Oracle reading as a way to connect with parts that we struggled communicating with. We wrote - multiple different story ideas, many of them abandoned partway through, others finished (including a 150k fanfic we wrote of a creative work we share with our best friend).

We picked up painting. Diamond painting. We bought a refurbished iPad and apple pencil so we could learn how to use procreate. But even learning is work. Learning is exhausting and requires energy and sometimes we don't have that.

And that's okay. Learning that one doesn't have to be productive every second of every day was just as important as learning to listen to our body when it's hungry or thirsty or needs a break.

Capitalism and consumerism have taught us that we need to produce produce produce - even those of us who make art. Update TikTok however many times a day. Post something on Instagram everyday. Engage engage engage instead of unplugging and just existing and resting.

Unlearning all of that takes time. Learning who you are without constantly worrying whether you're conforming with the rest of society is TOUGH. There are pieces of you that you have come to rely on that aren't actually yours.

Idk. I've had a month of sitting and writing and sleeping and playing phone games etc while I didn't have to parent, as our child was on the other side of the country with our ex-wife. It was an intense month, because there were things we could allow ourselves to do that we can't necessarily do when we have a child we have to take care of as well.

He comes home today and I am excited to see him. I also feel ready to get him through his summer program and get him ready for high school (he's also autistic - no surprises there).

We're ready.

And yet there's still more work we have to do on ourselves - and that's okay. We'll do it at the pace we set, that feels right for us. Do I know how long this will take?

No.

Nor do I care to know, tbh. I just never want to reach burnout ever fucking again. I don't want to see Cas hit it ever again; he may technically also be me but I love the hell out of him, and it's always devastating when the sunshiniest of all of us doesn't want to exist on this plane of existence anymore. I don't want any part of our System to ever hit it, ever again.

I'm not sure if we'll be successful at that, but we're certainly going to try. It's taken 17ish months to figure out what we felt comfortable doing as a group to bring in money again - and honestly, I don't expect us to ever finish doing this internal work. There will be new things that happen that throw us off or an angle of something we didn't see before until the trauma is dug up again.

And that's okay. It...really is okay.