me: i want a girlfriend
brain: so we go out & talk to girls
me: no talk, just girlfriend
I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.
If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.
this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it
Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.
If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.
For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service.
The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage.
Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class
People who earn a below-living wage rely on government subsidy programmes, just to live so that they can go back to their underpaid job the next day.
Let me rephrase that: business that pay a below-living wage are relying on government subsidies to maintain their workforce. This is corporate welfare: if you oppose government handouts and pay a below-living wage, then you are a hypocrite and a freeloader.
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no offense but like…. more saving…… more doing…… that’s the power of home depot
why did i try weed omg ima die i feel like a a dvd player
this is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever seen i’m losing it
heimdall in ragnarok has the aesthetic of aragorn sitting in the corner of the prancing pony and the vibe of aragorn pushing open the double doors of helm’s deep and all around it is a very good look
When I was a kid, a very quiet girl from my school who I kind-of sort-of knew brought me a bundle of lavender, carefully wrapped in butcher paper and tied with a string. She said she’d thought of me that morning and picked it on her parents’ farm. This hasn’t come to mind in years, but I remembered it today and I’m startled by the kindness of it now, that someone who hardly knew me thought of me, and picked me lavender.
public school lunch aesthetic
-random applause that eventually encompasses the entire cafeteria
-skipping classes to go to your friend’s lunch periods
-”come with me i dont wanna go alone”
-not knowing who you’re singing happy birthday for
-“hey if i pay you will you go through the line and get me something”
-knowing your id number so you can actually eat
-only wearing your id during lunch period
-that ONE security guard
-”what’s even for lunch today”
-HOLY FUCK IT’S CHICKEN NUGGET DAY
-those girls who chill in the bathroom doing their makeup
-fights = dinner AND a show
-”hey what lunch do you have this year” “b” “damn i’m in c”
What the fuck does any of this mean why is there a security guard in your school what
This is America
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