i just saw someone completely seriously, without a hint of irony, refer to it as “Q-slur Eye” and my intestines started melting like so many Salvador Dalí clocks
[Image description: photo of someone holding up a piece of paper with a phone message.
To: Sara (there are boxes for “Please call back”, “Will call again” and “Urgent”; the “Urgent” box is marked) Message: “Someone calling himself the high wizard phoned. Says you have broken your sacred oath and must pay the ultimate price. No need to call him back…”]
See, ideally the benefit of a capitalist society is that the solution for that is built in – things like Lyft, AirBNB, and other crowdsourced platforms take over traditional taxis and hotels because they’re less expensive alternatives. The system favors cheap alternatives because it’s what people prefer, which means that every industry where giant conglomerates are slowly collapsing due to their own greed is another industry in which a cheaper alternative can come in and benefit.
Gig economy services like Lyft & AirBnB aren’t innovative solutions to corporations or clever way to balance the playing field, it’s a method of exploiting extremely cheap labor & exploding profit by never having to actually give any benefits to the workers making money for you or never having to actually buy a car for your cab service (or just loan the driver a car at usury levels of interest and indebt them to you). And the more saturated the market comes, the cheaper you can make it while driving down your workers’ slice of the pie & keeping the same amount of profit. Gig economy isn’t a solution of the problems of capitalism—its an extension of it.
Building a model of “cheaper goods/services to the consumer than the competition” always comes with a backstory of exploitation. Walmart is able to sell cheaper goods because they exploit sweatshop labor and their American employees still have to be on government assistance to provide for their families because they’re not paid.
[ image description is tweet by @discomfiting that says, “all of these corporations that “Milennials killed” are actually just proof Karl Marx was right when he said capitalists are their own gravediggers; that they repress wages yet seek to maximize profits, eventually workers can’t buy whats produced & the system starts coming to a halt.” Dated 6/15/2018 ]
Seriously, if you constantly talk about how aces shouldn’t be allowed in lgbt+ spaces, even the “actual lgbt” aces aren’t going to feel safe. They’ll be afraid to talk about issues they have that are unique to them being ace, which honestly seems to be what some of you people want, considering you get mad at people having ace flags at pride.
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When it comes to stuff like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, I’ve found it’s usually way better to think to yourself ‘I don’t want to be’ than ‘I’m not’.
I.e. if someone goes ‘that thing you just did is ableist’, instead of going ‘I’m not ableist, I don’t hate disabled people!’ it’s usually a lot better to go ‘I don’t want to be ableist, I should rethink what I’m doing/saying/etc in light of that fact’. Because that shifts your thinking so rather than jumping straight into denial and attempts to defend your character, you’re instead more inclined to look at how your actions could be misrepresenting your intentions. Or whether you’ve overlooked something, been callous, or acted in ignorance.
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