Tag: capitalism

Tumblr’s Lifting Blogs Really Really Show What’s Depressing About Capitalism

Basically: We have all these abundant commodities, and for the vast majority of people shopping is like being a Victorian urchin with their nose pressed to a toy shop window.

God that’s sad.  Shoplifting isn’t something I do personally, I’ve been lucky enough not to need to, but you seriously can’t help but feel really awful about how the abundance of consumer goods exists, and people are so totally excluded from participation.

Like there are posts like “For the first time in my life I get to give gifts and have things” and it’s just heart breaking

It’s Not That I Have Anything Against People Who Patronize Sex Workers

I just intensely dislike capitalists which most of the dudes able to afford this shit at this level are.

Basically, proles, self employed but not employers?  You’re good.  Petite bourgeois… gets iffy, depends on your politics.  Grand bourgeois = fuck you, ya goddamn parasite… so uh yeah, this is not me having a problem with Johns, this is me having a problem with capitalist parasites.

But also I do believe in generally extracting as much cash as possible from irritating dudes.

I also think there might be a unique phenomenon with second shift labor and the relation of bourgeois women and proletarian women.

Because in essence the capitalist receives compensation for the work of many workers, yes? And the capitalist heterosexual housewife receives compensation for the sexual and domestic labor of many women, from her husband’s paycheck receives her compensation, and she receives an unjustly large amount, just as a proletarian heterosexual housewife receives a portion of her husband’s paycheck, and receives a small amount, and I believe this is in part because as the capitalist is paid for the value created by many workers, the capitalist wife is paid for an amount of domestic and sexual labor one worker could not do, she is paid for the work essentially of many “wives”, she is paid for the surplus created by the housecleaners, sex workers, beauty support workers, childcare workers and so on, I’m not sure if this is the exact explanation or perfectly theoretically correct but I think I have a point… there’s something there.in the way second shift labor is done in bourgeois households.

I think applications of labor theory to the domestic sphere are useful and important for understanding the condition of women

Feminism is a way of forcing men to such desperation they must work, therefore it is slavery.

of-another-broken-heart:

manslator:

Manslation: I ostensibly consider voluntarily seeking out employment for which one is compensated and retaining the right to leave at any time to be slavery, so that’s… confusing.

Alternate Manslation: My mom told me to get a job 😦

Alternate alternate manslation: the idea that women want to be treated like people instead of defacto door prizes for men who go through the tedious and extensive trouble of existing are so demanding! I shouldn’t have to work for companionship or affection!

Alternate manslation: I’ve confused feminism with capitalism again

Also If You’re Gonna Argue With Me About Whether Capitalism If Unjust And Whether The Capitalist Class Works At All

Do remember that I’m essentially the American equivalent of fallen aristocracy.  I’ve been there, I have family in that position.  I am intimately equated with the excesses of the higher tiers of capitalist society, I’m from there and I’m telling you it’s fucked.

Also I have to say, the bourgeois and their hard work fetish, so exhausting.  

I’m telling you that the more you have, the less work you have to do.  I’m telling you that the system is rigged.  I’m telling you that all the hard work in the world won’t get you to where an accident of birth places some people.  I’m telling you that that regional accent of yours will make sure you don’t get hired.  I’m telling you that this shit is fucked up.  I’m telling you not to buy our bullshit, because I know how much we lie.

And I’m from there.  I’m intimately familiar with wealth in a way, that you, probable petite bougie are not.

Mathematics of Injustice

First of all, let me say “everyone gets paid the same” has never ever been a communist platform.  We don’t have a problem with hard working guy getting paid more.  We have a problem with lazy ass rich dude getting money other people earned simply because he already has money.

Capital is literally defined as “money used to make more money” and capitalism is a system in which you can get money for doing literally nothing but already having money, if that doesn’t prove that A: capitalism makes wealth pool at the top and drains it away from the bottom, and B: shit’s fucked up, I don’t know what does.  

But now let’s talk about the meth head and the family man again, let’s say the meth head gets 15K a year working as say… a convenience store clerk.  Let’s make shit simple and give the family man a 30K a year, about average for a middle class dude.  Now, if we were to give the meth head as much as the family man that would be a raise of 50% of the family man’s salary, you with me?

Okay, now let’s talk about Whoopit  Wilkins III who never works, who gets money because his great great great great granddad ran a mill and he inherited a great big eternally increasing trust fund.  Let’s say he earns 100 mill a year, which is moderate for a 1%er given that the Waltons earn 1 bill a year each just from their walmart dividends.

Now how many times mr. nice hard working family man’s salary does he get?  3333.33X (the three repeats).  Now, that means how many years mr. nice hard working family man have to work to make as much as Whoopit Wilkins III gets in one year.  Over three thousand years.

Now if it’s 50% unjust for a meth head who doesn’t work to get as much as the family man wouldn’t that make 3333.33% unjust for Whoopit to get that much more than the family man?

Which makes capitalism at least 3283.33333333% more unjust than a socialist system with a guaranteed basic income of 30,000 per person.