I belong to the Blank Generation

First they lied about fast food workers writing “Pig” on their cups

Then they lied about workers messing with their food 

Now an entire police UNION has been caught fabricating a story about Shake Shack workers poisoning police officers. 

What a surprise…

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This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

ADHD peeps and autistic peeps, please add on to this, and autistic peeps please add about special interests if you would like to!

This is meant to be an educational post, so sorry if I come off as rude!

I’m ADHD & autistic and one of my symptoms is being internally hyperactive, which basically means my thoughts are fast & near-constant. Hyperfixations give me something to focus on when nothing in the situation is occupying my thoughts. This keeps me from being in that space of not having anything to think about, which is a disorienting feeling and ngl is sometimes scary.

It’s also closely related to hyperfocus, which is a specific for of intense concentration that only happens in ADHD & autistic people. (Unless there are other mental disorders with this symptom we don’t know about.) To me hyperfixations feel like extended & less intense hyperfocus.

Hyperfixations help with the neurotransmitter deficiencies in my brain. The rush of dopamine people get when they engage with their hyperfixations is a biological way of the brain trying to get neurotransmitters, which it isn’t producing enough of on it’s own. (ADHD)

CNN International: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/trump-coronavirus-defense-fauci/index.html

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Deadline: https://deadline.com/2020/04/coronavirus-cnn-msnbc-donald-trump-1202907481/amp/

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

Just a wake up call for those of you that hoarded food and said they will just restock. These are the lines at the distribution centers including for bottled water. Drivers might wait a day in this line. Do you see any restroom facilities or places to eat? Once they do get loaded some places are taking six hours or more to unload them on the opposite end. You normally do have to wait at distribution centers because there slow but now it’s extremely bad. So, When you wonder why your grocery store isn’t restocked today. This is why. Last week Aaron was getting unloaded and they just stopped. The manager at the store said were done for the day, you will just have to sleep at the dock until tomorrow. There’s definitely no restrooms or food in a dock area behind a closed store.  Plus Aaron still had another stop on his load for another store. Next time you get mad at that truck driver because he’s not driving fast enough and you flip him off or you stereotype him for his profession or how he’s dressed. Remember these times. There Mom and Dads, Grandparents, Veterans, many have College degrees but may have lost there good job due to a downsize. There Humans just like you Risking there own health to keep this country supplied. There not at home self quarantined with there families. Thank them, our first responders and our health care professional’s.