Psychologist Erich Fromm who defined the term malignant narcissist called people like Andreessen necrophiles—not as a sexual fetish but the obsessive desire to turn the world into a lifeless machine that’s easier for them to understand.
If you live in areas that have elected a Reform council, this is where you all come in. Report every pothole, broken pavement, keep them on their toes and make their lives intolerable.
"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.
When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."
— Bertrand Russell
In reality, progressive feminist‘s only objection to what is happening here is that NFL cheerleaders are not paid a living wage and are often sexually harassed at the workplace. We literally like and support these women more than y’all do, we see them as workers with rights.
when you make an account on this site you should have to sign a waiver that says "I understand that gothic cathedrals required centuries of trained labor under complex systems of apprenticeship and certification overseen by guilds" so that we can avoid doing this every other day
@seldomsensible@RockChartrand@rushicrypto No employers? No industry average salaries? Why don’t the people who design/ market/ manufacture/ engineer capture the surplus value they create? Why is wealth primarily accumulated and held through passive income?
@seldomsensible@RockChartrand@rushicrypto the point was that money rewards value, and that value is determined by how much people choose to pay. If a person cannot reasonably choose not to pay for shelter, water, food and transportation, then money doesn’t reward value, it rewards the power to withhold those resources.
Genuinely awed by this video, in which a woman does a Marina Abramović “the artist is present” face at a comedian and her inscrutability and unbroken eye contact drives him to madness and reveals his deepest insecurities
Sometimes I find it sinister that in our culture, often things considered visually pretty/appealing to men/peak girlhood (long nails, high heels, long hair, make-up, skirts, being very skinny) are things that restrict your mobility