endangered-justice-seeker: It’s easier to think of someone as “lazy” than to face the fact that school costs too much, that better jobs are inaccessible, that childcare is unaffordable, that people are forced to work so hard for so little that there’s no way they could have enough energy to attempt schooling or finding better work, …
Tag Archives: classism
oldwordcubed: jenniferrpovey: See, here’s the problem: Rich people don’t give money unless PR says they should. Middle class people don’t give money because we live in constant terror of something happening to make us poor. Poor people give money, but they don’t really have it to give. And that’s why charity doesn’t do what it …
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yourfaveisproblematic: (With help from alltheladiesyouhate and rotationalvelocitydensity) Compared autistic people to Frankenstein’s Monster while talking about his part as the Creature in a production of Frankenstein: “It’s basically being a man child, it’s being a man infant. And then, psychologically, Danny and Nick Dear, who’s adapted the Mary Shelley novel, into a brilliant 2 ½ hour …
meeko-mar: theconcealedweapon: People will honestly ask “Does that poor person deserve food?” but never ask “Does that CEO deserve ten cars, three houses, and two yachts?” And before you respond with “the poor person is buying that food with someone else’s money”, the CEO bought those luxuries with money earned from other people’s hard work. …
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felthief: selphinrose: bogleech: bogleech: selphinrose: somethingsomethingbutterfly: of-another-broken-heart: So the USA is trying to starve its poor to death. Not even an exaggeration. The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW …
czechs-and-holdings: Can we PLEASE remove the stigma for blue collar work in America? “You don’t wanna be a garbage collector when you grow up, do you?” $34,000 a year, no college needed? God forbid you take an honest job $7,000 above Michigan’s average cost of living line. “You don’t wanna be a ditch digger.” Bitch, …
“Jobs are supposed to cover expenses and let someone live, employers are supposed to care-” no. You got it wrong, minimum wage jobs are NOT MEANT TO LIVE OFF. THEY ARE NOT. So sick of that, they’re intro jobs for a fucking reason. Not “living jobs”.
fullten: woesbee: tsugua-a: fullten: You blew up my inbox, only to make a fucking fool of yourself, but okay. I’d post the others but I’m on mobile and fuck you. FDR, who started the minimum wage, literally said in his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt …
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