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people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

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tiny mr. fjord as a companion for tiny mr. clay!

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Fuck all this “essential retail workers are heroes” bullshit. Essential retail workers aren’t heroes, they’re hostages. They want to go home. They want to be safe. But they can’t because they’ll literally starve to death on the streets because without their jobs they’ll be homeless with no healthcare and no food. We have a society that treats a certain class of people like shit and yet society literally couldn’t function without them. It’s infuriating that they can’t even get decent pay and healthcare.

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Polyamorous relationships are good

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coming of age checklist:

✔️get gay and/or trans

✔️ realize the “shitty” music you listened to as a preteen is good, actually

✔️unlearn gov propaganda

✔️ think a lot bout starting an lgbt subsistence based commune with friends

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SO GOOD

Wow the latest Critical Role episodes were so intense! I’ve never made Critical Role fanart before but now I just had to! (First post to my Tumblr as well. ^^)

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Holy shit, Bernie just popped off on the Senate floor

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Wanted to draw a simple Nott & Frumpkin, it quickly turned into background practice lol.

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A general strike? On April 20th, 2020? To make an aid plan that would be permanent? To make healthcare a right? That’d be crazy to have happen on April 20th. Absolutely crazy for a general strike on April 20th. Nothing is going to happen on April 20th, 2020 in the form of a general strike. Nope, not on April 20th, 2020. 

This can’t happen. Nope. Nothing. Will. Happen. On. April 20th 2020.

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c’mere boy, wanna treat?

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proud of anyone putting effort into becoming a better version of themselves

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This took a bit but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for some outfit design, so here are the M9 fit for a party! I hope I made Laura and Tal proud!

✨do not repost my art | Reblogs are love✨

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The Price of Power

I wonder if Laura is having second thoughts about wanting to play a warlock after last episode.

I have been thinking it for awhile. We know who Matt Mercer is. Laura has wanted to be a warlock across two campaigns and more than a few one-shot characters. I wonder if the situation Matt has made for Laura with the Traveller is a ‘safer’ version of a warlock/patron relationship than the one Fjord has with Uk’toa. They definitely feel more like two people making pacts rather than a typical cleric/god relationship.

After this episode and watching how Laura reacted to various happenings during the ship fight, I wonder if she might be reconsidering...

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Normalize apologizing to children.

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Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…