#exploitation of workers

[nando161mando]

[uncleasad]

Tonight’s dinner entertainment was an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1964, “The Brain Center at Whipple’s.”

Sadly, 60 years later, it still hits home on so many levels: capricious mass firings by the capitalist class in the name of “efficiency” (as a code word for “exorbitant profits with no concern for the costs”), an unreasonable and unhealthy fascination with “progress” and technology, hostility towards workers and towards anyone who doesn’t share their dystopian “vision” of the future, and more.

I can only hope the day is soon when the likes of Melon Husk, Sam Altman, and their ilk meet the same fate as the younger Mr Whipple.

[mxjackparker]

The only way in which selling sex is exceptional as a form of work is that it involves having sex.

Sex work is not more emotionally intimate than all other forms of work. Emotional intimacy can be involved in therapy, care work, and writing about deeply personal topics.

Sex work is not the only form of work which can involve genital contact. This happens in medical environments, care work and when giving genital piercings.

Sex work is not uniquely dangerous. Fishing, construction and underwater welding all have high fatality and injury rates.

Sex work is not more prone to trafficking than all other forms of work. People are trafficked in huge numbers in the agricultural industry and for the manufacture of textiles.

Sex work is not the only form of work which involves frequent sexual harassment. People are often sexually harassed whilst doing bar work, waiting tables and providing health care and social assistance.

Sex work is not the only type of work that is criminalized. Other types of work like busking without a license, drug dealing, con artistry and any kind of job which requires authorisation form a third party where that isn't obtained.

Stop it with the sex work exceptionalism! Treat it like other work.

[emperornorton47]

[svtskneecaps]

FUCK IT!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THEM!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THEM!!!!! I MISS WHEN WE WERE ALL CRAMMED IN A PIT TOGETHER SCREAMING AND SHAKING AND SOBBING AND CONFUSED AS ALL HELL SITTING IN THE TUMBLR LIVEBLOGS HOLDING HANDS AS WE ALL EXPLAINED WHAT THINGS MEANT, WHAT THE REAL WORLD CULTURAL CONTEXT WAS, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN BITS THE TRANSLATOR COULDN'T GET!!!!! FUCK IT!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE ANOTHER GODDAMN PURGATORY!!!!! GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FORMING SIX PERSON FAMILIES OVER THE SPAN OF THREE TO FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE EVIL SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT NEVER MADE ANY GODDAMN SENSE, GIVE ME THE STUPID FUCKING EYE WORKERS THAT WERE AGGRAVATINGLY UNBEATABLE, GIVE ME THE CONFUSING ASS BLACK CONCRETE STRUCTURES THAT WENT BASICALLY FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT ALL IF IT MEANS I GET A FRENCH MAN AND A GUY FROM LUXEMBOURG AND A WOMAN FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOOTING THE SHIT IN A MINECRAFT PIT STARTER HOUSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT IF I GET BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH SITTING AT A FUCKING TABLE IN A SECRET UNDERGROUND MEETING ROOM THEORIZING ABOUT A MINECRAFT CHARACTER WITH AN APPEARANCE BASED ON A JOKE ABOUT A GUY'S DOG BEING AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anonyme-glace]

My big brother who finally figured out what I do for a living while he scrolls through tumblr and recognizes me wearing the sweater he got me for Christmas. Of course I don’t show my face but he knows it’s me. He knows he needs to scroll but he doesn’t. He watches me tease my nipples through it and watches as the sweater rides up my stomach. He watches me take the sweater off and cup my tits. He watches as I lean back and take off my panties. And he certainly watches when I begin to stretch myself out with a dildo that’s coincidentally the same length and girth as his cock. He messages me and starts sending me gifts and money. All this leading up to when he finally asks to do a facetime with me. He says he deserves it after all that’s he’s done for me.

Now my blog is all about couple posting. Posting sex tapes where I’m calling him my brother. But of course theirs no way that’s true, right?

[imuybemovoko]

watching the Muppet Christmas Carol and I have reached the conclusion that we should start having large groups of people followpowerful people around and sing about their crimes in public

[ancient-art-of-craft]

Quilter's Dilemma

A phenomenon I made up where you have a talent that takes so much time to produce something, that you can't sell it anymore. There's a market for handmade quilts, obviously, they're beautiful and warm and wonderful, but no one would be willing to pay the amount of money that is required to properly compensate the artist.

I don't quilt, but the raw materials to make a couple of pairs of mittens is $70 for some nice wool. But the hours required to make them is roughly two seasons of Criminal Minds, and some Doctor Who episodes with my family. Those are 45 minute episodes. Minimum wage in my state is around $11.

No one is willing to pay several hundred dollars for a couple of pairs of mittens, no matter how warm and detailed they are. Especially if I'm not a master knitter, which I'm not, and they're bound to have mistakes in them.

So we loop back around to giving them as gifts, and instead ask nothing in return.

If someone gives you something they handmade this Christmas, cherish it.

[fallofthecelestial]

Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.

What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.

What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...

What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..

Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself

[nando161mando]

Exploitation of workers...

[politijohn]

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[mxjackparker]

I was hired at The Scarlett Letters because I am a sex worker and the shop was intended to serve the sex worker community. Part of the point was to offer sex workers stable employment so we could sell less sex, and my boss hired me knowing I was trying to concieve and wanted to stop seeing clients while pregnant. Instead myself and my coworkers had our hours cut, were denied the fixed hours promised, and dealt with constant hostility in the work environment.

We are now occupying the bookshop and demanding our boss hands over the stock to us, so we can run as a workers co-operative.

A little more info on our demands is available on Instagram! All of us are marginalized workers, whether we're sex workers, racialized, queer, trans, or multiple of these identities. No worker should be exploited via zero hours contracts and extra work without extra pay, but it's especially bad that this has happened to many of us who have no other employment prospects.

We were supposed to be a radical space, platforming marginalized authors and especially sex workers! Our boss deciding to shut down the business and make us all redundant after we unionized wouldn't be okay anywhere but it's wild coming from a bookshop claiming to be radical!

If you can support, please donate to our hardship fund so we can pay our bills during this occupation!

[kataraavatara]

rereading the azriel bonus chapter for fic writing purposes and i feel like we all need to talk more about the fact her vision of utopia contains brothels and her moral upstanding heroes are the men who frequent them.

[callizinc]

If creators didn't want me to interpret every story to be about how Society Is Bad then they shouldn't have made Society Bad. Think about that

[sparksinthenight]

If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.

[massivetittiesandwarcrimes]

(I'm a tax preparer) Had a man stop by to ask a tax question today, and we start chatting and it was... Concerning.

Him: - but yeah, this is exclusively my work phone, I have another phone for me, and I need to use it for GPS to do my job. My boss takes money out of my check to pay for it, but the plan he has isn't nearly enough and data fees cost me over $2,000 last year.

Me: ... Um.

Him: oh yeah, and there was an incident involving work equipment that caused some damage to a nearby car, and even though his business insurance covered it, he's taking payments out of my check to get the money back.

Me: ... What.

Him: oh! And he also takes $10 a month for a life insurance policy he bought on me, where he's the only beneficiary.

Me: ... Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is navigate to the website for the United States Department of Labor-