This is what’s going down in NYC hospitals for POC patients. Her account was promptly removed from facebook Content warning for lots of descriptions of people dying due to medical negligence
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This is what’s going down in NYC hospitals for POC patients. Her account was promptly removed from facebook Content warning for lots of descriptions of people dying due to medical negligence

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I can’t eat right since I smashed my face in and I’ve been hungry for days this is miserable
hey so I’m a disabled fssw and I’m currently out of work because I had a seizure and smashed my face on a curb, knocking out my front tooth and chipping another one. the stitches in my face come out thursday but they can’t fix my teeth until then since it’s a mouth injury and super easy to get infected. I’m out of work because facial injuries and missing teeth aren’t exactly sexy. I have dental insurance, but I still have to pay to get it fixed, plus the ambulance and hospital bills. plus figuring out why the fuck I’m having seizures anyway. I’m 20 years old. I live in a basement with my father and a ton of roommates (4+2 babies). I was already disabled. I was already sick. I’m already a literal prostitute. There’s part of my top lip I’m never gonna feel again. I know literally no one can afford to live right now, but I have no other option but to beg right now. Literally all I can take is cashapp because everything else has been shut down. I can’t tell you how grateful I’d be for $1 or $2 or $3 to be sent to me at $rubisortera. I can’t say I deserve it or anything like that I’m just trying to make it forward
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Climate-Change activists when temperatures fluctuate by .0000000001 degrees.
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“We don’t want to doom people to poverty either though”
Taking a “moderate” approach to climate change will doom people to poverty anyway, seeing as moderate solutions favor capitalism and capitalism requires a global poor that has no choice but to work for pittance wages. Any time wages become decent in one country, corporations outsource to somewhere else so they can again exploit people for smaller pennies. “Dooming people to poverty” is sitting on our hands and not actually doing anything about climate change and the economic system that’s accelerating it.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.
Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.
Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.
Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.
Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.
Capitalist culture is bosses threatening workers with replacement by machines if their wage demands become “too high”.
Capitalist culture is forcing people to work bullshit jobs that don’t need to be done and squandering the wider social potential of automation.
Capitalist culture is the US government backing violent coups of democratically-elected presidents in other countries and installing fascist dictatorships so that elite material interests are catered to – only to then get super offended that another country would dare interfere with their 2016 elections.
Capitalist culture is pretending to care about the underdog, only to then advocate policies that concentrate wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.
Capitalist culture is pretending to care about the pursuit of happiness, only to then structure society so that the overwhelming majority are forced into soul-crushing assembly line/service industry/consumerist jobs under the threat of homelessness and starvation.
Capitalist culture is pretending to oppose an unaccountable economic coordinator class that makes all the major decisions, despite that being the exact description of bosses, landlords, and billionaires under capitalism.
Ok, but yeah. I want to work more than 15 hours a week. I genuinely love the challenge with what I do. 15 seems, oddly tiny? Where did this number come from?
This is a good response to that question, in case anyone wanted the q&a paired together. 15 would be the social average — some people might work more, some less, but that would be up to them. This is also presupposing a change in the way the economy effectively functions, in the sense that 15 hours would be the social average for necessary labor, and after that point you’d probably see tons of people participating in “unnecessary” labor out of interest. There’s an idea in socialist theory that basically says once you reach a point far enough along after capitalism you’d just start seeing a blurring of the lines between what’s defined as “work” (or as “a job”) and what’s defined as “a collective activity”, especially with regard to the arts, science, etc.
At the very least, a transition towards (eco)socialism will require a vast shortening of the workweek and a reduction in overall advertising/consumption, whether that mean a 15-hour week or a 20-hour week. The main point is that people are overworked, we can meet everyone’s needs feasibly with less hours anyway, and the over-emphasis on extraction and accumulation (which is in part fueled by a tediously long workweek) is having disastrous effects on the planet. We can both accomodate the needs of the planet AND expand the political horizons for the great majority of the population, but it will require the fundamental defeat of capitalism and the establishment of a new ecological workers’ democracy. It’s a big project, but so worth it in the long run.
The 15-hour week presupposes a change in the economy first. Obviously capitalism requires long hours for people to survive, but in terms of pure stats it’s not necessary for society to be working that much. There’s enough resources for everyone, and so much work is pointless bullshit that only exists to line the pockets of the rich. The ecosocialist project demands a new way of looking at and distributing work. Get rid of the bullshit jobs, divvy up the necessary jobs, and we’d free up people’s time immensely to engage in pursuits they actually want to do to contribute to society.
Also, food and housing and such would be guaranteed in an ecosocialist society anyway, so it goes beyond simply reorganizing work. People have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and those will never be achieved for the great majority in a capitalist society.
These were really good additions so I wanted t add them onto the cumulative post
the 40 hour workweek is not as productive as corporate/management wants us to think, and it also leave most people exhausted. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is an absurd amount of time to be working. And judging from statistics, there’s about 50% of Americans who work more than 40 hours a week…
This does not even include time spent commuting or getting ready for work.
Even though our productivity is leagues better than it has ever been, we now have less leisure time than feudal peasants! There is absolutely no reason for people to need to work 40+ hours a week just to support themselves or family.
There’s a lot of “But how will X industry function on so few hours?” And the answer that comes to my mind is that if the price we pay for no one living on the street, going hungry, or suffering from curable illnesses is that movies/video games take longer to make because no one can be coerced into working obscene hours on threat of starvation, then damn, that’s fucking cheap, and I would pay it without hesitation.
Also, on that last point: if we’re talking about projects that *actually* take that long? Yeah, most of the people who work those jobs are likely to volunteer more time at them; again, see “blurring the line between ‘a job’ and ‘a collective activity’” above.
I mean we already see people making movies, video games, music, fashion, and all the other things we love essentially for free out of the love of the medium with no expectation of profit right now. Why would we expect that art would suddenly disappear? If anything it would flourish.
It WOULD flourish because people who have more free time on their hands and aren’t living in constant fear of losing their house, healthcare, etc. have greater energies that they can devote to creative pursuits. Think of all the art and innovations we are likely missing out on, because everyone’s too busy scraping like hell to survive. Countless studies have proven that stress has very real deleterious effects on logic and reasoning along with pretty much all forms of thinking associated with creativity.
I haven’t really seen a ton of math here yet, so let’s do some simple math to prove that a 15 hour work week, if anything, is an estimate in the high range of what is necessary, and not absurd in the slightest:
What we see here is that technology has increased human productivity while median compensation for that productivity has been lagging behind.
In other words, somebody (a small minority) is making a bunch of money they weren’t making before.
Since 1978 human productivity has, thanks to technology, multiplied by 2.5x.
Standard of living has (calculated from spending and accounting for inflation) NOT CHANGED.
This means that we are not living more expensively, and in some areas, particularly housing, healthcare and education, we are now actually having it WORSE than they did 50 years ago.
So let’s do the math I was missing:
If we got rid of this paradoxical group that is making so much more money, we could have the same standard of living as in 1978 while working 2.5x less!
As the typical work week in 1978 was 40 hours, that corresponds to 16 hours (16 × 2.5 = 40).
And human productivity didn’t start increasing through technology in 1978! If we accounted for farther back than that we could cut it WAY more!
On top of that we have all of the previously mentioned factors, which get a lot more complicated to calculate, but it’s not even necessary!
The IWW was campaigning for a 16 hour work week in the 1910’s for crying out loud!
You really think we can’t do any less than 15 in 2018?
Also, let’s talk about how exactly capitalism makes this not work:
In capitalism, you have an employer who needs to profit from what you do.
This means that you create a certain amount of value for them. They pay you a wage in turn.
This wage is ALWAYS lower than what your work is worth.
If it was equal or higher, your employer would lose money from hiring you!
And this surplus value that your employer takes isn’t a little. It’s a lot.
So much that cutting the work week by half – presupposing this wage-exploitation stopped existing – would be absurd; a 15 hour work week would probably be too long, not too short!
Not to forget that our education system was brought in as essentially a babysitting service. Education itself can adapt to become about authentic learning with base skills and then moving on to actual interests. The teenage brain isn’t even awake until about ten in the morning, I don’t think the adult one is at 7, which is when a lot of workplaces here start up. We’re constantly tired, getting in crashes and accidents and then still having to show up to work where we can’t be even half as productive as we would be with only a few hours a day. It’s time to change. Back your actually leftist parties, educate yourself on the policies and help us to change other peoples minds, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to say that our planet is no longer dying because of us, and we are not whipping ourselves to our own extinction.
“Capitalism made your-”
No. LABOUR made it. LABOUR made my phone, my laptop, the internet, this website, my clothing, my house, all social media, and everything else. LABOUR makes things, Capitalism doesn’t because economic systems don’t ‘make’ anything, they just determine who gets paid for making things.
I just came.
But if capitalism wasn’t a thing, companies like Apple (who I despise btw) would simply not exist to ever produce the product, you could argue that the smartphone or something like the internet would never have arisen without capitalism op
No, actually, you could not argue there would be less technology. There would be more, because the geniuses who die in poverty would have had the opportunity to pursue their passion. There have been thousands of geniuses who will never be known because of capitalism, and who’s inventions we will never now know because they chose to eat and have shelter or became homeless.
If Capitalism was not our existing state, but Socialism was, we would have increases in art, innovation, technology, and more. Because people would not be forced to choose between trying to invent the next incredible thing that connects the world, and eating. People would not be forced to decide if they wanted to pay rent or pursue their passion for painting.
Yeah, I mean, I have 7 years of university education in maths and physics that I’m not using because I can’t work 40-50hrs/week so I have to work for Deliveroo to pay my bills.

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Environmental Catastrophe is Coming. The Rich Will Be Just Fine.
They’ve got private protection from ever-more-frequent natural disasters. But who will pay the price?
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We often here about how automation is coming for our jobs whether we like it or not, but automation isn't an impersonal force of history - it's a political process with contestable consequences, argues Grace Blakeley.
Globalisation and automation: these are the trends reshaping our world, or so we are told. According to the consultancy McKinsey, 80% of jobs could technically be automated by 2050. Globalisation will bring the Global South closer to the Global North. Together, they will create a world in which an ever greater number of human beings compete for a shrinking number of jobs.
But there’s a fatal flaw in this narrative: it doesn’t make any sense.
‘Globalisation’ can’t do anything – it is not an actor; it does not have agency. The same goes for ‘automation’ – whilst robots may one day become autonomous beings, as things stand they still have to be programmed by people. Hence the absurdity of claiming that ‘the robots are taking our jobs’. Robots don’t have the capacity to ‘take’ anything.
Capitalists, on the other hand, most certainly do.
Globalisation and automation are both examples of what linguists call ‘nominalisations’: nouns created from adjectives or verbs. For example, interference is a nominalisation of ‘interfere’. Whilst the verb ‘to interfere’ would have to be used with a subject (I interfere, you interfere, etc), the nominalisation does not. One can completely strip out the actor behind the change and rely instead on an abstract noun to do all the work.
This method of political discourse is powerful and highly ideological. Talking about ‘globalisation’ allows us to construct the idea of ‘globalisation’ as an inevitable, impersonal trend, driven by the agentless forces of history. The nominalisation completely obscures the fact that ‘to globalise’ is a verb – the same goes for ‘to automate’. ‘Automation’ doesn’t just happen – tasks are automated by people.
In fact, ‘nominalisation’ is itself a nominalisation – someone has to be doing the nominalising. Those who popularised the depoliticising of terms like ‘globalisation’ and ‘automation’ benefit from the processes they claim to describe but in fact obscure. And it is not hard to see how.
Popular use and acceptance of these terms represents a significant victory for the agents behind these changes. People talk easily of globalisation and automation, viewing them as abstract ‘facts of life’ to which we will all have to adapt, naturalising what are in fact contingent phenomena. This has served to obscure the role of those doing the globalising and the automating.
When it comes to globalisation, the wealthy have benefited massively from the dramatic increase in capital mobility since the 1980s. They are increasingly able to invest their money anywhere in the world, paying as much or as little tax as they would like to along the way. They would argue that this was an inevitable result of technological change, but legal, social and organisational changes were required too – from the removal of capital controls, to the massive deregulation of finance, to the creation of international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank.
By presenting these changes as natural and inevitable, elites have been able to claim they are also irreversible. Fashionable nominalisations like ‘globalisation’ have allowed elites to argue that high tax rates don’t work in a world where capital is free to move wherever it likes. You can’t tax the wealthy, so the argument goes, because if you try they’ll just leave. Don’t like it? Take it up with globalisation.
The same kind of analysis can be applied to the idea of automation. We are increasingly being flooded with doomsday scenarios about mass technological unemployment resulting from developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Rather than challenging these narratives, many on the left have succumbed to these apparently inevitable changes and developed policies that will ease the pain – from universal basic income to the three-day week.
But such a narrative totally fails to grasp how these changes are being driven, and in whose interests. Much of the technology behind automation has been developed either by huge transnational monopolies or highly militarised neoliberal states. More importantly, the way in which these technological changes work their way into the production process is determined almost entirely by giant corporations and their state sponsors.
These actors have a direct interest in driving labour out of the production process entirely. This transformation would not only allow capitalists to dramatically increase their profits, but would also finally crush labour’s capacity to resist (whilst of course creating new contradictions to which this new mode of capitalism would have to adapt). Full automation under capitalism would represent the completion of a 40-year project to seize an ever greater share of national income for capital, at the expense of labour.
‘The robots’ aren’t coming for our jobs – but the capitalists who own the robots certainly are. And this is ultimately what the politics of automation comes down to – the ownership of capital. Unless ownership of that capital is dramatically broadened, the coming decades will witness ordinary people further stripped of power and control over their lives, with increasing numbers rendered surplus to an economy in which they have no role nor stake.
Resisting capitalist automation should be part of any socialist agenda, as the much-maligned Luddites were well aware. The movement towards a socialist mode of production may then allow us to achieve what might be termed ‘alter-automation’ – à la the ‘alter-globalisation’ movement – based on full automation, a universal basic income, and the full socialisation of wealth.
We on the left must stop presenting ‘automation’ and ‘globalisation’ as interesting, slightly scary, but ultimately inevitable changes to which we must adapt. These terms should be confronted for what they are: active processes to shift wealth and power from the overwhelming majority to a tiny elite. Without that recognition, we will struggle to wrest back control over our economic and political systems and rescue potentially liberating technological advances from the dystopian control of the powerful.

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so THIS is why he tried to shake Harry’s hand!
i honestly wish there was just a crack version of all the hp movies and this was the basis of the first plot
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