#wage slavery

[terezisexbuttpyrope]

Friendly reminder that you can talk about your wage or salary with coworkers, and if your work prohibits or discourages this, they are breaking federal law.

Relevant to my new job 🙃

[aspiringbogwitch]

[emperornorton47]

[guardianspirits13]

As an artist, one thing that consistently bothers me is how creative skills are valued differently in wealthy countries than they are in developing countries.

I work at a craft store, and the number of ornaments and statues that say they were ‘hand painted’ or ‘handmade’ makes me dizzy. Someone had to assemble and/or paint these often intricate decorations only for some white woman to buy them half-off for like $3.

If you were to buy a hand-painted statue from an American creator on Etsy? It’s priced fairly for the time and materials that went into it, and the person that created it is getting at least 60-70% profit after material and site fees (please correct me if that estimate is inaccurate).

All of those cheap shirts and dresses from Shein are handmade, but it’s not valued nearly as much as the artists and creators they often steal from. This is obviously not the fault of either the independent artists or factory workers creating these, but the corporation that cheapens these creations from both a material and creative standpoint. Not only are you buying a piece of clothing made from as cheap of materials possible that is bad for the environment and incentivizing the mistreatment of the workers who made them, but you are also belittling the artistry that goes into creating intricate, quality pieces of clothing by smaller creators.

Many of us do not have the skill to create our own clothing, and we are impressed meeting people who tell us their outfit is in fact handmade with raw fabric and a sewing machine. But still factory workers who cut and sew hundreds of pieces of clothing a day are viewed as (or at the very least treated like) unskilled workers.

And of course this ties into the broader conversation of how many occupations we consider “unskilled” make up the BACKBONE of our society. If the apocalypse began tomorrow, the most valued skills would include farming, construction, and medical treatment (noting how nurses are underpaid and overworked despite how like 80% their schooling is the same as doctors).

I wanna leave this off with a video I saw a while ago that stuck with me and really planted the seed in my mind for this rant. It features a Chinese man who spends his life painting stroke-for-stroke replicas of The Starry Night to be sold overseas. He quite literally paints like one of the most famous artists of all time, and hasn’t even seen a Van Gogh original in person (at the time of filming, but it looks like he has finally made it to Europe in recent years).

It saddens me, but we should all fight to break the cycle of exploitation until everybody is free from oppression, exploitation, and wage slavery.

[animentality]

[phobic-human]

"It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment .Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible."

- J.V. Stalin

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[anim-ttrpgs]

so silk and dagger question it’s stated the drow tend to take kids and babies from the surface right so the whole bit about some servants not understanding drow language doesn’t really make sense since they should’ve been integrated by that point right?

also most drow are anti slavery right then how do they get away with taking humans from the surface like i get they view it as positive but it’s still taking someone from the servant caste against their will counts as slavery

While children are smaller and easier to take, that’s just a preference, not a hard rule. The Drow in Silk & Dagger will take anyone they can get their hands on, and this does result in many servants from the surface who did not grow up speaking their language.

2. You have come upon one of Silk & Dagger: A Sensible Drow RPG’s most important core themes! Yes, what they do is slavery, they force all of the servant caste, not just kidnapped humans, into labor. They just don’t call it slavery because they’ve created this long Rube Goldberg chain of social systems, environmental pressures, and special language around it that obscures what it is, so much so that they’ve actually started to believe it themselves.

The tunnels outside the palaces are dangerous and easy to get lost in, and most servants don’t have access to the proper tools or supplies to traverse them safely, but they are allowed to leave, so they aren’t slaves.

The Drow are allowed to punish them for any reason, especially for disrespect and disobedience, but they don’t legally have to obey a Drow’s every whim, so they aren’t slaves.

The Drow control the entire society’s food distribution, but servants don’t have to work for Drow, so they aren’t slaves.

Sound familiar?

[prole-log]

[unimatrix-420]

[anarchistin]

Capitalism has always been the elephant in the room when it comes to mental illness.

Living paycheck to paycheck causes anxiety. Not being able to see a doctor is stressful. Choosing between paying rent or having heat/electricity feels hopeless. Working multiple jobs and never being able to see our loved ones is depressing. Laboring for a wage is alienating. Marketing ourselves to capitalists for jobs that determine our worth as human beings is insulting.

Capitalist life is a meaningless grind for most of us. It's no wonder we're all sick.

— Hampton Institute

[nando161mando]

#1: “let’s form a union.”

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

New goal unlocked: Make billionaires cry

Cyber bully billionaires. If you have the opportunity, bully them to their faces. Make them cry. Make them scared to leave their houses. Terrorize them.

Break out the guillotine if you’re feeling ambitious.

[thoughtportal]

prove you are worthy of staying alive by pretending that you are dead

Darby Hudson

[mismaxx]

oof, new tadc episode was too relatable...