when someone makes you feel safe. safe to express. safe to feel. safe to speak. safe to think. just safe. i love that. i love an emotionally validating human. i love an active listener. i love reciprocity.
@AOC People always say Jeff Bezos totally deserves to be one of the richest men on earth, but it becomes increasingly obvious that it takes massive amounts of labor exploitation to make that type of income.
Billionaires shouldn't exist if it costs people their dignity
remember when senators got coronavirus briefings before the public and sold off millions of dollars in stocks before the crash last year and faced no consequences and no regulation? then reddit made one stock into a meme and they’re talking about restructuring the whole market
Just a friendly reminder that if you make under $75k your taxes are going up beginning this year and will increase every two years. You can thank 45 and the @GOP for this gift. They made the stepped increases part of the 2017 “tax cuts.”
Some years back my wife and I got into the habit of asking each other
‘do you want comfort or solutions’ when the other was having a bad time. That one sentence can save us from an argument 9/10 times.
Many people use my story (voluntarily cutting my CEO pay to give all workers $70k+) as evidence capitalism works. "He did it on his own"
No! It proves it doesn't work. It's been 6 years & not one big company followed suit. Corporations will never voluntarily do the right thing.
@CURTCOBAiN87 @Iridescent_Rose@SlimWyldNReklez The vaccine teaches the body to fight a protein on the outer wall of the virus thus killing it. It's like if I were to cut off your arm, I'm not directly killing you but you're sure as hell gonna bleed to death 🤟🏼
When your position is both “People who can’t afford to go to college shouldn’t take out loans to do it” and “People who do jobs that don’t require a college degree shouldn’t be paid a living wage” it kind of starts to seem like you just want to keep poor people poor.