I write about stuff despite the fact that the promised safety my intelligence and university degree should have given me were a lie: in late stage capitalism, as individuals, we are no longer valuable when tech giants want us hooked on AI just to sell their products to other businesses but selling our dependency on them with it (when something is free, you're the product)
Ungrateful and unmotivated as we are described, Millennials and Gen Z have come to see the promise of hard work and safety means nothing in a world where capitalism is getting to the end of individuals phagocytosis and so two things are going to happen:
Interest rates going up make everyone poorer. You might survive a bit longer if you own property but don't worry, capitalism is working to expropriate that from you, sending you into debt so every penny of capital you have, will become capital of the bank which just invests in billionaires venture.
Without a penny to your name and homelessness criminalised you either are able bodied enough to become a free worker as a convict or you'll be left to die and thin a population that, once exhausted it's purchasing power, really has no other use to capitalism.
I'm not catastrophising, we're here now.
Read in full: activistwitch.substack.com
With citations from @jonni_qwest
And @jarvisbransoncocker @welovepulp
I wanted to use the little match girl by Andersen as a reference but I still cry like a bunny when I just think about it just like I did when my grandmother was reading me the story, so I settled for an art piece I did this year, collage on canvas based on a spoken word piece which accidentally fits a bit too well because it's indeed about wealth inequality, poverty and housing, or lack thereof in the UK. It's called "All Money is Blood".
#latestagecapitalism
#poverty #absolutepoverty #abjectpoverty #ai
#queerartist #classwar #classism #differentclass
#classism
Bootstraps, Billionaires, and Bullshit: Why the “Welfare Queen” Myth Needs to Die
The "welfare queen" myth perpetuates harmful stereotypes about those on assistance, primarily affecting women of color. In truth, corporate entities, not individuals, exploit the system. Poverty is systemic, exacerbated by inadequate wages and rising costs. To create meaningful change, support, equity, and proper policies must take precedence over individual blame.
Einmal ohne victim shaming:
Die 48-Jährige, der gegenüber die Hilfestrukturen der Hansestadt offenkundig versagt haben und die in der Folge ohne menschenwürdiges Obdach war, war in der Dezembernacht bei Temperaturen unter 5°C - wie sie angab: „auf der Suche nach einem Schlafplatz“ - in das Tunnelsystem der U-Bahn geraten. Seit 2012 hat sie die Zahl der Menschen ohne feste Wohnsitz, die sehr oft Opfer von brutalster Gewalt werden, verdoppelt. In Hamburg sind 20% von ihnen Frauen. #classism
I have an extremely handsome winter sweater, but I have a reluctance to wear it because of my fear of being mistaken for someone who might own skis.
Interview: Luke Kemp on the history & future of societal collapse
The main cause of societal collapse is inequality.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/luke-kemp-goliaths-curse/105319500
#SocietalCollapse #Inequality #USPol #Europol #Racism #Classism #autocracy #fascism .
"We’re all more closely related than we know, and our family has been murdering its own.
I’d think a realization like that should send every nationalist running for the shelter of cosmopolitan liberalism. Here we will treat you as a man and a brother, no matter who you are, and nowhere else can promise that. Let’s build a polity that’s faithful to the memory of all of our ancestors."
P.S. I don't know why Kuznicki uses male-gendered terms here.
"And there were a lot more wretched-but-fertile peasants in Francia than there were paladins at the short-lived court of the emperor. When you make a family tree, you don’t get to pick only the winners. Reach back impartially, and we’re all from an exactly equal set of ancestors. …
Delving into your ancestry will not reveal that you spring from a natural aristocracy. It will show that we have all been brothers, like it or not."
Jason Kuznicki notes that geneticists find that almost everyone of some European descent descends from Charlemagne. But the same math that shows us the Charlemagne link also tells us this:
"If the most wretched peasant of Charlemagne’s empire has any descendants now living, then we are all her children, too. That’s just how this genetic math works."
#racism #classism #nationalism #genetics
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-all-our-ancestors/
>> #NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says, "we must be ready for the scale of war our parents and great-grandparents endured" <<
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1999102491821064517
The European elites are warmongering lunatics. They are our enemies.
You will never see one of them and their children in the trenches. They always send others to their deaths for their lust for power and their interests.
Interview: Luke Kemp on the history & future of societal collapse
The main cause of societal collapse is inequality.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/luke-kemp-goliaths-curse/105319500
#SocietalCollapse #Inequality #USPol #Europol #Racism #Classism #autocracy #fascism .
Interview: Luke Kemp on the history & future of societal collapse
The main cause of societal collapse is inequality.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/luke-kemp-goliaths-curse/105319500
#SocietalCollapse #Inequality #USPol #Europol #Racism #Classism #press #autocracy #fascism .
"There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion."
#bellhooks #classism #taxtherich https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/52332c05-1dd4-4bf9-97ff-e13d09f221ef
ABSOLUTELY STOMACH-TURNING #WhiteSupremacism, #Misogynoir, #Classism, #Colonialism and Child S.A. and R@pe
Elaborate plot to use #DC #homeless people as mercenaries to invade island off #Haiti lands 2 men in ja -
we have a real social issue with people only being willing to point out an issue and demand enforcement when the consequences are limited to the little person
but the fucking instant the status quo is threatened by the crimes of those in power and their lackeys, everybody is doing heil hitler salutes to a uniform.
fuck that
the crime is the crime because of the act.
"Please forgive the Middle Class Straight White Person, please...."
#margorieTaylorGreene #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Dems #MTG #Classism #Whiteness
Money is the ball
Wealth is the table.
The ball isn't under any of the cups, and you are never, ever, going to own a table of your own.
If you did save up the balls for a table to run your own shell game, you would be beaten to death for trying to join the club.
If you survive to join, you live off the blood of others like a parasite.
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