So... you're allowed to be disabled *right now* but if you happen to become so in the future then fuck you. This is fucking disgusting. Just absolutely no thought whatsoever to people's lives. People as things. Economic units, only consuming or producing, no room or support or compassion to be allowed to *live*.
I fucking hate the Labour party.
Rant incoming. One of the things that I think is most despicable about the toxic marriage of austerity and rampant capitalism is just how utterly and completely it has shaped the conversation towards what people can *produce*. People as economic units, like worker bees. We diligently gather stuff for ubercunts at the top to hoard like dragons, or set fire to in the futile hope of one day getting into space, or spend on pursuing fucking immortality (give me strength).
The cost of this is life.
Do I want disabled people to receive material support to help them work?
No. I want disabled people to receive material support to help them *live*. That is what I want for all of us.
For our society (which has so much - SO MUCH!) to use that abundance to materially improve our days. Not just patch up the parts of us that are broken then feed us back into the 'eternal growth' machine, but help us experience and enjoy life, build community, family, joy.
BE HUMAN.
I saw a brief clip of a Mamdani interview yesterday on BlueSky, where he's asked if he likes capitalism. His answer - 'no' - shouldn't be a radical statement, in this world that is being so obviously and rapidly bled dry by it.
But it WAS a radical statement, because politicians never fucking say it.
We should say it. All the time. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, Mastodon, but fuck it - I like the song.
Capitalism is poison.
Burnett: Do you like capitalism? Mamdani: No, I have many critiques of capitalism. Yes! For too long it has been taboo to discuss legitimate critiques of capitalism in mainstream US media. This has shut down any chance of implementing real solutions to social crises. A new day is coming.
Let me be pedantic for a bit...
Capitalism is poison
That means something you eat and it kills you, which is not the case. We're not ingesting #capitalism on our own free will, it's being forced into us by aggressive, violent oligarchs whi wants to consume us for their (and only their) bennefit.
That means Capitalism is actually VENOM, being injected into us by a bunch of snakes.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poison
Boy, I long since got used to people failing entirely to have a legitimate definition for "capitalism", but this is a new one; unable to look up even the words that motivate your accusation.
Even from that page: "A poison is any chemical substance that is harmful or lethal to living organisms."
Nothing in there saying "something you eat and it kills you".
Yes, I see your ghost edit. Even the second paragraph of that section, again, does not say "something you eat and it kills you" or words to that effect. It says "when an organism is exposed to a sufficient quantity"; that could mean ingested, inhaled, injected, transdermal...all sorts of possibilities.
Yes, even your screenshot (of the THIRD paragraph, not the second). "Swallowed"...and then "inhaled, or absorbed through the skin". So, again, multiple possible routes of exposure.
I see you're shifting over to an entirely new objection. Not surprised.
I never "conceded", I've agreed from the start that poison CAN be something eaten. I assert that it's fallacious to claim that poison is "something you eat and it kills you". Some things are poisonous if injected but not if ingested.
Again, I'm not surprised anymore when people fail to properly define capitalism. It's just slightly new to me to see someone also fail at the definition of such a widely used, basic word.
I don't care about definitions "only".
No worries; I won't miss it.
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I was just thinking this morning, if I was given enough money to really manage my illness it would create five jobs right out of the gate. I would hire:
Healthy food prep
Physio/massage
House cleaning
Social worker
Driver/errand buddy
Even if I personally continued to be fekkin useless with this extra help, it would be a HUGE employment stimulus. All while providing me with dignity and quality of life.
Trickle Down economics failed. Let's try Lift Up economics instead. 💪🧡
@vlrny That’s how you know the system is BS, because if I had access to something like UBI I’d spend more money on so many things that would improve my life and also improve others’ lives.
I’d pay people for body therapy and mental therapy. I’d buy more food, and pet supplies. I might even feel good enough to socialize outside of my home and spend money doing activities.
I would pay someone to tailor clothes and maybe I’d finally feel good in clothes.
I could pay artists for their beautiful creations. I could support people in need who could then do the same for others.
Imagine what so many of us could do with the right support?
@girlonthenet
I agree that life is more important than work. But work maintains life. The problem is, as you say, that most people work to support the owner class rather than themselves or society as a whole. Not the work itself.
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Fwiw, I am currently a recipient of PIP. But it feels wrong. I'm not physically disabled. I guess my disability is my ADHD. Maybe when I get medication for that I can go to school again and eventually get a job (preferably at a co-op where I have a share of the profit I'm producing, or at a non-profit for a cause I believe in).
Alternatively, I can continue to collect benefits while doing voluntary work.
@girlonthenet also evidence clearly shows that having proper #SocialSecurity and an #UBI will be offset dozenfold by having happier, healtier and more productive as well as more able to participate in society (and not just consume) than the cost of not doing anything and policing homeless folks.
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