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“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”
— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via becoming-vverevvolf)
A lil mermaid for mermay!! I have a speedpaint video you can watch here if your interested!!
Can we normalize the idea that, just like everyone has certain levels of physical labor they can’t perform, everyone also has certain levels of emotional labor they can’t perform? Like, yeah, when you work retail you should be considerate and friendly to all customers, but not everyone can have an energetic mood for 8 hours in a row. That guy that works at the register who’s always got an ear-to-ear smile and has long conversations with every customer about any topic under the sun is not the standard by which all employees’ friendliness should be compared, he’s the equivalent of the guy that works out every day that moves huge items like they’re nothing. Yeah, Joe the unloader can lift 50-pound boxes onto pallets for 8 hours straight, but I can’t. Yeah, Dan the cashier can smile and laugh and be energetic for 8 hours straight, but I can’t. Just like the former doesn’t mean I’m lazy, the latter doesn’t mean I’m rude.
growth isn’t always constant. relapses happen. it doesn’t erase all your success.
Nazi punks fuck off.
They wanna believe so badly that they’re getting called ‘racist’ for random things, instead of… ya know… the fact that they’re being racist.
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Tweet from NYT Opinion / @nytopinion
If you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable cutlture, you need to stop yelling “Racist!” at anyone who doesn’t see the world exactly as you do nyti.ms/2LKFROh
Responses from Julius Goat / @JuliusGoat
- Can you guys please just once do one on how racists need to change?
- I mean my God the extent to which everything apparently depends on the proper care and management of the easily-bruised feelings of racists.
- Hi, I’m the well-paid opinion columnist who’s going to write 19 versions of “Daddy wouldn’t hit if you would just play quietly” this year.
“From the serial killer who was “always a polite, quiet neighbor” to the abuser who can keep their temper just fine around friends, bosses, & strangers but “totally loses control!” only when it comes to their victims and only when it won’t have legal consequences or make them look bad to others, to the person who is probably a pillar of his church community, but won’t let a pregnant woman use the bathroom if she’s the wrong race, everyone needs to understand this and understand it quick:
People can selectively be nice to the people whose opinions they care about and who they don’t want to harm. And predators consciously groom and choose people around them to be their defenders and spokespeople, the exact same way they groom their victims.
A lot of what you personally experience as “kindness” or “he’s a great guy!” from a misogynist is really about power and what they can get away with.”
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