I will never, NEVER understand how they managed to convince so many ppl that simply wanting everyone to be safe and to thrive, and for the planet to be healthy and protected, is somehow a radical point of view.
Poverty is not a moral failure. You are not lazy or uneducated, you exist is a system that requires poverty to increase the amount of money rich people collect. Low wages prop up our economy.
When I applied to university, we were told that most of us didn't have to worry about repaying our student loans because repayment would only kick in when you start earning £29,000.
Society’s obsession with forgiveness is one of the biggest contributors to abuse of all forms. Somehow the victim is gaslit into forgiving someone who wronged them but the same energy is never had for the actual abuser/perpetrator.
I have absolutely zero desire to see technology advance any further. No more AI. No more data centers. We don't need a new iPhone every year or flying cars.
You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything anymore. Everything is a subscription. Adobe, Notion, Spotify. You don't just buy things once, you keep paying every month. You literally have to pay for everything forever. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read