#capitalism is bullshit

[spoonful116]

Radical ideas, but:

Pay people appropriately and enough to live comfortably

Health insurance shouldn't be tied to your job, universal healthcare

Tax the rich

Billionaires shouldn't exist

TRICKLE DOWN DOESN’T WORK; THE ULTRA WEALTHY JUST HOARD IT AND CRUSH EVERYONE ELSE

Getting really tired of capitalism; it doesn't work and is literally destroying the world

[themcgeek]

[darthmatthewtwihard]

[gingeridot]

RE: Rat Park. (Link)

Just gimme good podcasts and something to crochet and I don't have ADHD affecting me negatively anymore without needing medication.

Where does the human connection come into that? Well, either I am listening to people or I am crocheting while I'm spending time with friends on the sofa. Also, I rarely crochet things for just myself. I get the satisfaction of doing it, other people get the result.

[nightmaretour]

Living alone is a constant battle of not wanting to waste food, but also it often costs more to buy two of something than it does to buy six

[nando161mando]

[memingursa]

Lol

[substitious-bastard]

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to handmake lace so all is well

[benfoxy101]

I just want to freeze time , go to a different dimension where it's just me and the void, cry for as long as I want, and then just come back to reality so I can answer my client in time for the deadline

[actual-corpse]

Remember, Money CAN'T buy happiness.

But it is needed to buy things that can help you be happy

Such as:

Basic needs!

Basic needs that are jacked up to stupid prices leading people to steal laundry detergent or Tampons or food.

If we NEED to STEAL our necessities, then the economy we live in is fucked up and should be changed.

Money doesn't buy happiness.

It buys LIFE

[cleverclovers]

Pricing staple foods this high should be a crime (the lowest cost of butter in this cabinet is 5.19)

[redrocketpanda]

I haven't played a video game in about a month. I haven't written anything in 12 days. I'm super behind on my messages. My finances are in a bit of a state. I keep running out of food in my house. I feel so overwhelmed by everything that I haven't really been around on here. And the temperature is now So Cold that it is making me thoroughly unhappy.

But, I did also somehow recently acquire a big boy who seems to really like me and who I actively allow to cuddle me, and I think maybe I might like him too? So... could be worse I guess?? Tho trying to like... be vulnerable with someone when my default mode has become slam the door in their face is HORRIBLE

[anonimusunnoan]

I can't believe Spotify is bullying users to get premium by not allowing you to go back to the start of a song once it's playing. Absolute garbage.

I'm done with streaming music. Fuck Spotify. Fuck that. I'm good with my massive downloads library. What the fuck.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so theres a lot of posts going round about the titanic wreck and the missing submarines; all of them that ive seen have made very good points about how shoddy the submersible seemed to be and how the company decided to wait eight hours before reporting it, and how this is a play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the ultra-wealthy who paid like 250grand a ticket for this thing.

but what i havent seen any posts about is how the titanic wreck is a gravesite and this tourism is disturbing the graves of over 1500 people.

sometimes its kinda hard to remember that those on the titanic were real people; it was over a century ago, the story has been romanticised in so many ways (like the movie), theres conspiracies theories galore that cloud everything with misinformation, but at the end of the day, those who died were real people.

do you want their names? heres a list of them; its a long read. and for fun, heres another site where you can see photos of the children and babies who died aboard.

their bodies are long gone and their lives long forgotten. all we have to remember them and honour them is the wreck itself. its all we have of them and it is their gravesite. its their tombstone.

caitlin doughty/ask a morticians video on the great lakes discusses the topic well, and why we should leave these shipwrecks alone because again, they are the gravesites of all the souls who died aboard those ships. we rarely have bodies to recover so we really are left just with the wreck.

and what really upsets me about titanic tourism is how the majority of those who died that night were not the ultra-wealthy rich folks you might picture when you think of ocean liners.

61% of the first class passengers survived

42% of the second class passengers survived

24% of the third class passengers survived

24% of the crew survived **

the majority of those who died that night were regular folk; not to be cliche, but they were just like us. titanics wreck is not only a gravesite for over 1500 people, its also a majority working class gravesite.

and look at us now. look at what were doing. the ultra-wealthy can pay the equivalent of peanuts to them to disturb a mass gravesite of the exact kind of people they exploit today to hold onto all their wealth. 

its easy to point and laugh at these dumb idiots in their playstation controller submarine, seemingly held together with super glue and duct tape, but its also important to remember that what they were doing was simply disturbing a gravesite for fun. though the company does research, these guys werent down there to conduct research, they were there so they could brag about it to their friends. its like “climbing mount everest” while your sherpa does all the work.

if you cant tell, i have a lot of feelings about this. shipwrecks and ocean liners are one of my special interests and im currently building a (beginner’s) model of the titanic, for fucks sake. but i would never go down to see that wreck because its a fucking gravesite and we should not be disturbing their final resting place.

[gosh-darn-sucking-vacuums]

Is anybody else’s job trying crack down on stupid rules during these big strikes in the news right now? Like I know I’m working a shitty minimum wage job, but we have a union and dissatisfaction with corporations and heads of industries is in the air. If my union said we should strike, even over these little quality of life things, I’d be there in a heart beat. We aren’t paid enough or given the proper support (like having enough staff for every shift and department), so why would we hesitate if it was suggested?

[nando161mando]

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help