charm city slicker

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Mostly posts about public transit, cities, geography, and left politics. I take a lot of photos of urban places. Car-free in Baltimore. Labor is entitled to all it creates. He/they

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profile pictureAl Pacino being carried away by bailiffs in the 1979 film ...And Justice For All
cover photoa map of the B&O's Philadelphia & Baltimore Railroad
charm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@thepoliticalcat you can always forgo your equity stake and be a hired laborer if you so wish. Nobody can require you to not alienate your labor from yourself. Even worker cooperatives hire hourly workers sometimes. But nobody who doesn't work should get to claim the proceeds of the work that is done, even if some of the workers don't want to either.
charm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@thepoliticalcat nobody makes a person's labor possible except the person themself. If you begin an enterprise and find yourself needing the labor of others to grow it beyond what you can manage yourself, you can accept a smaller share of a much larger pie or keep your full share of whatever you can build yourself. There is no such thing as a "job creator," there is only a "labor requirer."
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@MadMadMadMadRN my papaw left highlandtown and bought a rowhouse in Dundalk in 1958 when they tore out the 26 streetcar to sparrows point
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@mtsw income v. wealth would probably be a different tale (harbor yuppies v. north baltimore old money) but Canton, SoBo/Locust Point, Fed/Otterbein, Highlandtown/Brewers Hill, Fells, and the north and east sides of Patterson Park are 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 in median household income among the 55 community statistical areas in the city
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@MadMadMadMadRN not only this, but honestly i think terms of employment should be filed with the government and some central bureaucracy should distribute wages based on terms agreed by employers and employees with collection of said payments done by the government from employers. That way the worker is always paid for the work they've done and if the employer can't pay they are immediately in trouble. The burden should be on them, not vulnerable workers
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 25, 2023
@mtsw besides the point but sometimes I will look at like twenty Pluggers comics in a row just to try to understand whether it's supposed to be anti-humor
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 24, 2023
@MadMadMadMadRN @mtsw not having to wear headphones all day in order to listen to podcasts or music while I work is a definite plus of WFH. Also not having to hear ringing telephones and keyboard clicking and faxes and printers and people in the hallway pushing mail carts and delivery people coming in rustling bags of corporate lunches omg just typing it makes the cacophony feel real. Overstimulation to the extreme
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 24, 2023
@MadMadMadMadRN yeah I just know there are parents who wanted to go back into the office because they felt they couldn't work efficiently at home while schools were closed for covid. But we should obviously have universal child care
charm city slickerFeb 24, 2023
Still can't get over how good McCabe & Mrs Miller is after watching it last night
Show threadcharm city slickerFeb 24, 2023
Basically if you use Twitter to express your opinions anymore than passingly, you agree to be a politician. I have no interest in being a politician. If you are interested in my opinions, great. If you aren't, I don't want you to see them, because you're going to get mad at me and call me a Nazi because I enjoy walking along the harbor promenade of my own port city I live in the middle of and pay taxes to. No thanks, had more than enough of that