Tag: capitalism

I really hate hearing other people who experience various forms of oppression be like “I wanna be a capitalist uWu”

Like:
1. They’re not gonna let you prolly, especially cause you’re from a working class background

2. If they do, it’ll only be after you’ve thrown the rest of us under the bus.

3. The systems of oppression we exist in are a direct result of the hierarchy of labor created by capitalism, so y’ know fuck off?

4. Basically we’re all escaping the misery of proletarian existence under capital or next to none of us are. Statistically, you’re not going to be one of the few.

A Metaphor For Privilege Under Capitalism

Let’s say there are three groups of mice, one has a 7/8ths of a cake, one has 1/8th of a cake, and one has no cake.

The mice with no cake are like “Hey it’s pretty shitty we don’t get any cake”

And the mice with 7/8ths of the cake tell the mice with 1/8th of the cake “Well I mean you could divide it with them, but then you’d only get 1/16th of the cake then”  and the mice with 1/8th are like “HELL NO” and attacks the mice with no cake.

And then sometimes one of the mice with 1/8th of the cake go to the mice without cake and go “you know if we joined together we could get those guys’ whole cake”

And the mice with no cake are like “…you won’t share your cake with us and you attacked us for asking for any cake at all so we don’t really trust you… maybe if you were less shitty to us?”

And then the 1/8th cake mouse accuses them of dividing the working class.

Also sometimes one of the 7/8ths cake mice is like “We should both give them 1/16th of the cake, I know it’s a huge sacrifice, but it’s the right thing to do”  but it’s really just doing that to keep the 1/8th mice focused on making sure the mice with no cake don’t get any of their slice so that they don’t gang up with the mice with no cake and take the whole cake and divide it in half. 

Also I think something’s gone really wrong with our way of working and exercising

Both are a punishment, a horrid means to a desirable end. This way of doing things is unsustainable and soul destroying. Like running really fast when it’s not an emotionally fraught and self flagellatory experience is fun, it’s like being on a ride and also like stretching when you’re stiff. It feels good. But instead of running for the joy of it, or skipping rope to amusing chants or trying to roll a snow ball bigger than we are, our approach to physical activity is to go to a grey place and hate ourselves for failing to attain the rock hard abs that we see as virtue, by performing dull repetitive unpleasant actions that may be the most efficient way to attain the result but suck all the pleasure from movement just as capitalism sucks all the joy from work. If we did not make our value dependent on on working or exercise we would simply tend to do these things for the joy of them. If we did not almost purposely make these experiences grey and miserable they would return to their natural tendency to be pleasurable

I wish I didn’t live under a system that makes me feel worthless

Whenever I’m not actively earning money. I wish I didn’t live under a system that makes me feel like having chronic illness makes me irresponsible. I wish I felt like I was worthy of sleep, time off, relaxation. I wish I could afford those things, but my health insurance premium is 400 bucks a month and my meds don’t come in generic. Like I make a good living, I earn a very reasonable amount of money, but D and I are both sick in ways that require constant expensive treatment .

I find it very telling that it takes Bill Cosby being the only person with a chance

Of stopping ex-Enron dudes from putting a dangerous gas pipeline through Western Mass for the fact that Bill Cosby is a rapist to come out.

Basically survivors are only valid when Capital has a use for them.

Btw Bill Cosby is definitely a rapist. I just find it interesting that his being a rapist only gets publicity when he’s in the way of big money otherwise it would have been left buried