A country of desperate people is weak.
That's the idea.
This is me. Trump took my job. I don't have time to help the world because nobody will help me.
i started busking. don't make much, but make enough.
I think in other countries people in your situation they become "insurgents" or something like that. I think that's what they want to become of their citizens though so they grow from some other political move.
If you are still unemployed., getting involved in mutual aid can actually be a great thing to do with your time. I started a Really Really Free Market during a tough time in my life and it has given me way more back than what I've invested into in terms of time energy and resources.
That's why unions are essential. They can funnel the grievances of the working class towards actual improvements and force the powerful to act. They demonstrate, that a better life is possible when we stand together!
The problem is they don't or can't go far enough. Their end goal should be to take over the company and make it into a worker-owned co-op.
Should it? Wouldn't that just make them different/better bosses?
Unions can choose their own goal and politics and decide them through a democratic process. Their strength depends on membership and readiness of the workers to strike, then they can do anything.
So much union goals seemed impossible until they were achieved and became the new norm.
No, because the point is they wouldn't be bosses, nobody would be bosses, that's the point of a worker owned co-op:
Nobody is a boss, they're all equally responsible and have the same power as everybody else who works there.
Like unions, they collectively/democratically decide on things, they make decisions that don't just benefit a few at the top but all who work there and for the long-term survival of the company, not just the short term benefit of a few.
Do we have a source? All I can tell it is from Australia before the Libs (the conservatives, for international readers) changed the name of Newstart to "Job Seeker".
They also renamed the Department of Human Services to Services Australia.
Every time they're in power, they're trying to remove all the welfare we've built up. They just can't because we love it.
If it weren't for Centrelink, I probably wouldn't have finished university, and I probably wouldn't be an engineer now.
Fuck austerity. And long may the LNP (the conservative coalition) be in complete shambles, ans hopefully push the Labor party back to its more left wing roots.
SNAFU
Things are going exactly as planned, don’t worry- because you don’t have time to worry anymore
SNAFU
You acronym people have gone too far :P
For anyone else wondering: situation normal all fucked up
That one has been around for literally decades.
Starving people in Palestine run at Israeli tanks with salvaged explosives they built from Israeli bombs while wearing flipflops.
I find it really puts things in perspective when you look at real resistance in the real world.
Cool. So glad you're shitting on us. Good job, you fucking piece of shit. You did it. Fuck you.
Maybe get angry at those who put you in this situation rather than at those pointing out the situation?
Maybe you're deflecting the blame so you don't have to feel like you're being an asshole?
P.S. Please do enlighten me. Who exactly are "those" who put me and everyone else in this situation? You trolls are such trash.
P.S. Please do enlighten me. Who exactly are “those” who put me and everyone else in this situation?
It's definitely a beast with many heads.
Loosely, the people that extract wealth from the masses without lifting a finger, and hoarding said wealth, are likely the epicenter of it all. The neoliberal world order and capitalism isn't the work of an individual or a single group, but there definitely are those that pull the strings - the very wealthy, their lackeys, the educational institutions they have shaped, the media organizations they own and influence, and the governments that they have co-opted.
Some of the strings being pulled are fear, hate, survival, comfort, sycophancy, subservience, greed, competition, polarization, feelings of superiority, and dominance. We are not only exploited through our labor, but also through our psyche and how our societies are structured.
The answer is to stop falling into negativity and to focus on solutions. Pointing the finger and playing the blame game has no winners.
Some of the strings being pulled are fear, hate, survival, comfort, sycophancy, subservience, greed, competition, polarization, feelings of superiority, and dominance. We are not only exploited through our labor, but also through our psyche and how our societies are structured.
ding ding ding! You hit the mark. You might enjoy The Age of Surveillance Capitalism if you haven't read it already.
The new surveillance capitalist market is about human emotions and attention, not goods or services. At a certain point money is useless, and everything becomes about influence
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