omg people are putting used needles directly in trash. people really don’t give a fuck about others man. a sharps container is like $5, you got money for fake peptide bullshit but can’t do the minimum to protect sanitation workers.
Who else does that neurodivergent plan of “I’m gonna catch up on and fix my whole life this weekend,” but then the weekend comes and you’re like, “I deserve a break from being in work mode Monday to Friday,” and you keep repeating the same thing every damn week.
Describing fascism to anyone here is like describing water to a fish. Your daily life is so deeply saturated in it that you are barely aware of its presence and adding more water to your tank isn’t something you can even perceive.
My old boss, who was in her late 60s herself, had a one-woman crusade against the term "fixed income." Her point: Literally everyone who works for a wage is on a fixed income. It's a meaningless word.
I do not understand this economy where nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt grandparents, yet aides rely on food banks. Daycare can take up a parent’s entire paycheck, yet providers still cannot earn a livable wage and end up needing a second job.
In the absence of functioning public health infrastructure, you will have airlines making decisions that determine the spread of pandemic-grade pathogens.
the problem with this scrimp and save mentality is that my landlord can raise my rent by 10% every year for no reason. no matter what you save, they find a way to take it from you.
One third of Amazon workers are on government assistance because you don’t pay them enough. We are fully subsidizing the labor for your trillion dollar company. You are a parasite.
Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.
Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.
Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.
But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."
“is president trump eligible to run for a third term?” “i’d have to review” WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DO YOU NEED TO REVIEW WE WERE TAUGHT AS CHILDRENNNNNNN AS KIDS THAT PRESIDENTS CANT SERVE MORE THAN 2 TERMSSSSSS OMFFOGKRKSKDOWOWO WHYW OUMD HE BE ABLE TO RUN AGAIM YOU FUCKING FREAKS
Fees for paying rent online should absolutely be banned. In my experience, most of the companies doing this make it extremely hard to pay rent either by mail or in person so it’s essentially a mandatory fee on top of your rent.
It’s annoying that we realize children need a summer break and several vacations a year because they attend school, but we think it makes sense for adults to work 40 hours a week all year and probably get 2–3 weeks off in a whole year if you’re lucky.
In 2017, the government cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Corporations promised to raise worker wages with the savings.
Here’s what they actually did. S&P 500 buybacks jumped 55% in one year, from $519 billion in 2017 to $806 billion in 2018. By 2024, buybacks hit a record $942.5 billion. Goldman Sachs projects they’ll cross $1 trillion in 2025. Every dollar of buybacks inflates the stock price. The top 10% of Americans own 87% of all stocks. The bottom 50% own roughly 1%.
So the government cut taxes on corporations. Corporations sent the cash to shareholders. Shareholders were already the wealthiest people in the country. Then the government said “we’re all in this together.”
Run the scoreboard. Workers’ share of GDP hit 53.8% in Q3 2025, the lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking in 1947. It was 70% back then. Fortune 500 profits hit a record $1.87 trillion in 2024. The top 1% now hold $55 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50%, all 66 million households, hold $4.1 trillion.
The gap between corporate profits and worker compensation as a share of GDP is now the widest since World War II. Airlines are building $25,000 first-class suites while McDonald’s sells $5 value meals. Both rational responses to the same economy splitting in half.
The meme is a period drama. The Federal Reserve’s data from last quarter says the ratio is generous.