The best part about clothes is when you've worn them long enough for them to reach peak comfortability. I have this flannel jacket that I have had for 7 years that is starting to reach the end. It looks a little rough but God damnit it's the most comfortable jacket I have ever owned.
That's such a foreign concept to me! I wear my clothes over and over again until they are literally falling apart lol! Even then I might try to stitch them back together if they can be salvaged!
remember when patches were a thing? kid tore holes in their jeans, you patched them. decorative patches made clothes even cooler, more personalized. what the fuck man
You've got it backwards: Capitalists want to take the skill, craft, and intelligence out of a job so people are more replaceable, even if it makes the end product worse.
It's only low skill because everything has been standardized and prepped ahead of time. Even then, there is skill required to effectively and efficiently execute a standardized procedure.
And people that aren't particularly intelligent still deserve a chance to make a living and lead a normal life, and also deserve to be protected - via laws - from being taken advantage by those who are more intelligent, cunning and unethical.
What would it genuinely take to get people angry enough with the status quo to force radical change?
First, I thought natural disasters would... But people just seem to get temporarily displaced from their homes and then come right back to rebuild on the same land. They'll just blame the one off event.
Then I thought covid would be the breaking point, where people are finally uncomfortable enough to take action.
Will the next pandemic force the change?
Will it take mass homelessness and starvation?
Will it be an inspirational artist/piece of artwork that captures humanity?
There are literally people who have committed crimes to end up in jail because then they get food and shelter. And people who make minimum wage might as well be homeless cause I have no idea how people can even buy food with that little money.
Cost of living wage where I live is $25.88/h. ...and it's a rural area. Just a regular New England small town. The cheaper areas are $23.50ish. the data for these number was updated by MIT yesterday.
America is really a nation of slaves. Ide need more then 2 fulltime jobs to live on my own. ...since jobs still start around $8-10/h here.
Basically the options are slavery, homelessness, or suicide. Oh or slavery within prison.
Living wage in my area is $20.67 (for single person no kids and assumes housing is only $765/mth which is hard to find). Lots of places still pay in the 8-10 range, and 15 is super common for stuff because “it’s a low cost area, you get low cost wages”. 20+ is hard to find even with a degree, unless you already have years of experience under your belt, which you can’t get because you need to have years under your belt to get the years under your belt.. so basically unless you get real lucky real early, it’s almost impossible to find a living wage job around here.
Most of us are afraid to admit that we could be the next person on the streets. None of us are immune from poverty, misfortune, unemployment, addiction, or mental illness. There but for the grace of god go I...
The "blanket" part is because "clearing encampments" typically means jailing unhoused people and shoveling their possessions into dumpsters. So one question before the Court is whether police can throw away unhoused people's possessions without due process, ie, whether unhoused people have property rights or not.
You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class... keep on showing up at those jobs.
I'm not saying they're already back but years ago I knew a guy whose child got hit by a car a spent a week ish in the hospital before dying. He was young, not married to the mother of his child, financially liable for the bill, and uninsured. He ended up not being able to pay the bill and got sued by the hospital. He lost the case and the judge ended up finding him in contempt for not paying the bill and he got sentenced to like 6 months in jail.
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