In my underwear I have diss tracks.

Oh shit, I'll have to do a deep dive at some point.

Thanks, comrade! It's interesting to see life after living around people and then finding out what sticks

Oh okay. I'm trying to draw a connection between the complaints of the people in power. People not using deodorant is being treated like an issue of immorality or a sign that American work ethic is suffering from work from home.

By making this an issue that is hurting businesses, it's implying wrongdoing by people who have no need or use for deodorant.

By vilifying a working class who doesn't need to spend extra money to work, it reminds me of how poor work ethic or professionalism were used to justify oppression or resist giving worker rights.

Hygiene is a good thing and it prevents a lot of health issues, but when work from home prevents the need for extraneous activities (unpaid work like shaving, doing hair, applying deodorant or dressing properly), it's treated like a sign of societal ill

As I understand it, people in power like landowners or employers can create extra hoops to justify poor working conditions and a population of unemployed people.

It's not directly racist to require deodorant to work, but in light of the productivity staying the same, a news article lamenting the profit losses of deodorant companies sounds disingenuous and indirectly supports an oppressive system that arbitrarily needs workers to pay for extra grooming to function. When wfh proves the opposite.

It's okay if deodorant sales go down when people are able to do their jobs away from other people.

The framing of the article reminds me of the posturing around workers, particularly Black workers, and who gets to decide what is and isn't professional.

Again, grooming and fashion are fine. It's when it's treated as a moral failing and individual worker needs to whine for (through paying for cosmetics and extra items and the time lost in getting ready for work.)

I see this as similar to requiring a person to have a car to work and how the economic system in place makes it particularly hard for poorer people to work. Especially when the wealth is disproportionately smaller in BIPOC communities.

Bsd

This site is great because the users practice the alchemy of crystalizing liberalism into its purist form.

I would love to cuddle with my comrades.

Dance, water, dance!!

Yeah. When you really unpack the centuries of imperialism, and the frequency with which power/territory has changed hands in the Global South (by design), any progress towards equity is nice.

I think it's still wild though that in the year 2023, a company owned by people from another country can just buy access to mines in Africa and export any of the wealth.

Wilder still is that get pissed off at immigrants. They're fine benefiting from the wealth they get from these places, but god forbid any of that wealth goes to the people who had it stolen.

🎶 I see a site theme option, I want to make it black 🎵

Agreed. I set everything to dark if I can