Everything felt better when we were kids because it WAS, the quality of processed foods, clothing, shoes, has drastically decreased in the last couple decades. Companies putting profit at the cost of quality/safety of consumers is making people ill, and destroying experiences. I distinctly remember fast food tasting better, because companies switched to cheaper ingredients while raising prices. We are paying more for less constantly, in virtually every area of life.
There is such a beautiful harmony when you’re able to create space for yourself in your own life. Somehow the universe yields when you do. Allowing yourself to accept the things that happen are always going to lead into infinite possibilities. You can take it slowly, there is no rush, no race, you can live many lives in your lifetime, it’s all in your head. Every day is a new day.
but why do we have to get married and have children
why can’t we just get a group of friends and live happily ever after in an apartment and share the profits
i’d be much happier that way
this is the most millennial thing ive ever read
Nothing wrong with this, you can have roof parties and grill food. Better yet just save up together and buy a small house split the bills and mortgage.
- the nuclear family as an economic unit has really only existed for a few hundred years, across part but not all of the world
- the nuclear family unit is the easiest to exploit under capitalism, because parents have to work externally to provide for their children. They work to pay for child care for their children while they work. They work to earn money to feed their kids and to give them nice things to make up for all the time they spend away, at work.
- a huge amount of labour is necessary every day to keep a family fed, their house clean, etc. some families are wealthy enough to outsource this by hiring staff, most are not.
- capitalism is a pointless middleman in this. we should just live cooperatively.
- share houses and intentional communities are awesome
- people of different life stages function well together because they have complimentary needs and abilities
- kids are less of a stress and burden in a home with lots of different adults to provide support and love, as well as sharing household tasks.
- destroy capitalism through cooperativism.
“overpopulation” is what racist liberals blame the ecological crisis on. you know…not capitalism stripping the earth of resources or anything. Your average millionaire probably consumes about as much resources as 1,000 working class people.
yes this is such a brilliant point and building off of it, how about that narrative that shames ~third world countries~ for their population growth rates as the major factor in the depletion of natural resources and as the harbinger of future ecological doom meanwhile you’ve got countries like the uk (with 60 million people) using more natural resources and goods than countries like china (with over a billion people) or entire continents like africa/south america, and then you’ve got the united states using as many or more fossil fuels as china and india (even though both have four times as many people). like western academics are so quick to point fingers at the ‘developing world’ while ignoring the very crucial fact that the capitalist imperialist/neoimperialist societies of the west are using natural resources at unprecedented rates/many times more than the rest of the world combined and that if the rest of the world had their per capita usage it would take something like 4 more earths to sustain this kind of living
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day remember what he was killed for.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day remember what he was killed for.
Emma Goldman on Capitalism
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