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      • bupp [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Side hustles replacing actual leisure is the bleakest shit

      • sappho [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Every time I crochet something cute there's inevitably the comment "You could sell these!" How about you could let me have just one corner of my life free of the incessant demand to produce and commodify.

        • frida_kahlua [any]
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          4 years ago

          I started playing the harp a few months ago for my own personal interests and I keep getting questions like "So do you want to play weddings and stuff?". Um, no, I just want to play a fucking harp. Why does everything I do with my time have to be in pursuit of money?

          • crime [she/her, any]
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            4 years ago

            holy shit playing the harp sounds awesome. how'd you get into that?

            • frida_kahlua [any]
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              4 years ago

              I was a fantasy nerd in my early youth and developed an affinity. Flash forward to being on unemployment, Corona bored with Corona money, low impulse control and here we are. Seriously the best thing I've done for myself in a long time, though.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I remember being in college and I wanted to create some sort of argument about substance abuse - particularly alcohol as it related to mental illness. The core of the argument escapes me now. I was absolutely shocked that the numbers that the government provided were in terms of dollars lost as a function of time taken off of work to seek treatment times salary. "But people do things other than work!" I thought. "What about the psychological damage? The relationships town apart? The personal journey?" I didn't think this precisely, but I didn't have a conception of politics as a fundamentally material matter and I wanted some kind of acknowledgement of alienation causing people to use. What I got was pity for business owners. This wasn't a breaking point for me, but it nudged me toward being sympathetic to leftist arguments.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I can't remember the exact wording, but Marx says something along the lines of:

      "In the capitalist mode of production, a man's thirst does not exist until he purchases a drink."

      When your humanity is defined by your ability to pay for it.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I don't think it is. A substantial majority of people dislike the prohibition of marijuana, but the private prison industry and the cops like it. 3 guesses which group has more say in politics (protip: the more liberal wing has a fucking cop as a VP candidate)

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        A substantial majority of people dislike the prohibition of marijuana, but the private prison industry and the cops like it.

        But look at where marijuana policy is today vs. 25 years ago, or even 10 years ago. And none of that progress is getting rolled back anytime soon. It's one of the few honestly bright spots in politics.

        • Deadend [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's a grimy dim bulb covered in shit and blood.

          America is a nightmare.

    • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      https://archive.thinkprogress.org/leaving-homeless-person-on-the-streets-31-065-giving-them-housing-10-051-3107834a8632/#:~:text=Late%20last%20week%2C%20the%20Central,they%20live%20on%20the%20streets.

    • _else [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      okay but they get paid all that money. that's the trick.

      and also, a better strategy would be to break their shit that costs money.

  • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Fun fact, US government values a single human life at $10 million in analysis. They must be getting a fucking steal in the periphery.