FDR was very explicit when creating the minimum wage that it should be a livable wage.
This idea that minimum wage jobs are starter jobs is corporate propaganda used to defend paying people substandard wages.
If there's an oil crisis and oil companies are making record profits, A healthcare crisis and healthcare companies are making record profits, a financial crisis and finance companies are making record profits.Then the companies are the crisis.
Your landlord is taking half your salary, the government is spending your taxes on wars, your boss is pocketing the profits you and your colleagues are laboring for, but instead of fighting them y'all want to fight immigrants and trans people because you are bootlicking cowards.
Seeing a lot of deeply condescending “content” recently that’s like “Flannery O’Connor is Dostoyevsky for girls!”
But what if Dostoyevsky is also Dostoyevsky for girls and O’Connor is also O’Connor for boys? What if we all grew up a little bit?
IF YOU’RE ALIVE THEN ACT ALIVE. I mean what the hell. fall in love with something. get carried away. give yourself a reason to be absolutely exhausted by the end of the day and still wish you had a few more hours. this is your life. get your hands dirty
Art should comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable, ask if I wanna grab lunch, get lost on a date in the woods, take faded polaroids around the world together, and argue at the baby furniture section at Ikea. Art should be my wife
CAUSE LOVE'S SUCH AN OLD-FASHIONED WORD AND LOVE DARES YOU TO CARE FOR THE PEOPLE ON THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT AND LOVE DARES YOU TO CHANGE OUR WAY OF CARING ABOUT OURSELVES THIS IS OUR LAST DANCE THIS IS OUR LAST DANCE THIS IS OURSELVES
Take away their fucking guns. Immigration is a PAPERWORK problem, they should be BUREAUCRATS if they have to exist at all. If someone """needs""" arresting they can go through NORMAL FUCKING CHANNELS about it.