capitalism.png: Living Wage as a Service (LWaaS)

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Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Screaming Idiot posted:

About eight years or so ago I was jobless and living in a household with like five other people not counting the homeless folks who would occasionally stay at our place.

A few days before Christmas we were destitute -- we had nothing to eat but a sack of potatoes and some flour and rice. So I took my Sega Saturn and its games to a pawn shop and got about twenty bucks out of all of it to use to buy food because god dammit I didn't want to be hungry on Christmas.

So I walked to the store and tried to make the most of what I had. Twenty bucks doesn't stretch very far for fove people to eat on, but I was determined to try anyway. But as I was walking through the store, I something caught my eye: a folded one-hundred dollar bill.

I picked it up, torn between keeping it to buy food for my family and taking it to the management to get it back to its rightful owner. Then I remembered our empty fridge and cupboards. I remembered my cats, who had not eaten in days. I remembered it was my goddamned birthday. I decided to keep the money.

So I filled my cart. I made sure to get things I knew would last, things we needed, things we wanted. Sorry about your loss, Person Going Christmas Shopping, but we needed food.

I take my loaded cart to the front of the store and go through self-checkout. And then I pull the still-folded hundred dollar bill out of my pocoet and unfold it to pay for my purchases.

"Disappointed?" Said the message on the inside. "Don't be! Jesus loves you! Come to Main Street Baptist Church!"

It was at that exact moment I knew, knew, with a certainty as cold and as final as the grave that there is no god.

oof

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 21:03

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:59

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

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# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 03:33

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

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# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 05:05

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

lmao a house cleaner for even a small place is not 30 dollars for even a single visit. Is that like one visit per year amortized out over 12 months?

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 20:23

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

boar guy posted:

it's 1/4 of the share of the cost of cleaning the whole house

Still cheap as poo poo, and definitely either going to do a poo poo job or they're paying someone poor under the table.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 20:26

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Tashilicious posted:

I live in Canada.

We don't spent millions for highschoolers to give each other brain damage.

You don't have cheerleaders??

# ¿ Dec 28, 2018 19:02

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

steinrokkan posted:

How loving socially inept are you people, jesus christ, this is like reading a thread of people trying to be awkward on purpose because it's quirky or some poo poo

turn on you're monitor

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 00:34

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Imagined posted:

Humans are garbage and can gently caress up even the best ideas given time so really the inevitable giant asteroid is really the only permanent solution.

Amen

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 20:06

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Microsoft loaning builders money to build 500 houses

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 07:23

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Is this the thread where all the Kamala vs Bernie memes were posted? I'm looking for them but haven't been able to find them here or in the CSPAM image thread but there are a lot of pages.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 03:50

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Accretionist posted:

I think those're mostly in the Bernie 2020 and Dem Primary threads

Thanks!

# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 04:24

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Outrail posted:

I think one of the reasons people, and guys especially, don't want to go to the doctor is fear. Sure my head hurts or tooth aches or there's a grapefruit sized lump hanging off my ballsack but right now it might be nothing. The second I go to the doctor it could turn into cancer or whatever. So by not going to the doctor I don't have cancer. It's dumb but people are pretty dumb.

Schrodingers cancerous nutsack.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 06:46

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Dead Beef posted:

because they know their tennents can afford it and have nowhere else to go, also landlords are parasites

doesn't your bank have a bill pay feature where they'll send money wherever you want every month?

# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 02:10

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

PostNouveau posted:

That makes me trust it more.

If it had been CEOs, they'd all claim to work 120 hours a week, sleeping mostly at their desk and subsisting on a diet of only leftover meeting donuts.

sleeping on the factory floor

# ¿ Apr 3, 2019 04:27

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Nukes to Saudi A! posted:

Brands, please stay out of my kids school

That kid could be eating any kind of unbranded foreskin bar. An unnecessary product placement.

yeah but it's misspelled

# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 02:21

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Nukes to Saudi A! posted:

The extra F is for foreskin

# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 02:36

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Panhandlers. We don't get many in my suburban town, not due to population or anything, mostly weather. On one hand these people are often scammers with houses or whatever, but on the other hand capitalism fucks people into really poo poo situations so I understand it.

I just don't know if I'm supposed to give them money

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 16:52

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Okay thanks, I gave her twenty bucks and she seemed appreciative (but reticent) so I'm hoping it did actually help someone in need. I honestly don't even care if they use it on booze and drugs, those are just an escape hatch for the hell world loving them, I just don't want to be conned by a dude who does this as his day job and returns to his McMansion or whatever afterwards.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 17:08

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Okay I'll throw money at them out of guilt, thanks!

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 17:19

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

lancemantis posted:

Yes that scamming panhandler really pulled one off on me, taking an inconsequential amount on my end to spend on food or drinks or drugs or gas without me being able to morally judge exactly how they used it, totally living it up

Nah wasn't worried about that, I honestly have zero problem using money like that on drugs or alcohol, they're a product of a hosed up system regardless. I just hear the (presumably right-wing) tales of people making a billion dollars a day doing this as their dayjob.

But the point about there always being scammers taking advantage of things was helpful, I hadn't considered that's true everywhere (I'm extra cautious similarly about charitable contributions).

I know I'm getting the guillotine when the time comes, I'm just trying to figure out good ways of helping people since I can. Which is why it's easier to give a goon who lost his job a few hundred bucks because I "trust" him compared to some random panhandler I see in the same spot for years on end.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 20:18

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Nah I just see that poo poo online, I don't generally go places (e.g. family events) where there are chuds, and all of my friends and coworkers are at least AOC-fans in term of left-leanings.

Speaking of which, Mike Gravel just reached his donation count minimum for the debates so that'll be a thing.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 20:50

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

It's okay since talking about panhandlers now we have ICE coming into my nice suburban community abducting people

At least the community Facebook threads are talking about how to help the people and to record ICE and stuff.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 20:25

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Chomp8645 posted:

lol what a douchebag. Go to jail bithc!!!

# ¿ Jul 17, 2019 17:06

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

GEMorris posted:

Love that you folks keep dodging the abelist issue, to the degree that someone above even put "disabled" in quotes.

An opportunity to sanctimoniously punch down while also doing effectively nothing *AND* pretending like something was accomplished? Sounds like a neolib wet dream.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2019 18:12

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Cowpocalypse posted:

I'm surprised there's not more anti-capitalism attitude in the gaming world considering how hard capitalism hosed up games.

I think that attitude is slowly growing, you see people commenting on it in context of like the Riot dude who was grabbing peoples balls or whatever that barely got a slap on the wrist, plus some game studios blaming delays on wanting to make sure their staff isn't overworked (which is bullshit but at least it makes people associate companies valuing work/life balance with warm and fuzzies.)

# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 02:48

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

spacetoaster posted:

Here's some capitalism:

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/...%3D2502%23pti28

Shooting just happened.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2019 06:00

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Hollandia posted:

There's a great spot in my city that is designed as an incubator for small ethical food businesses that can't afford to lease their own space / outfit a kitchen yet.

It operates 4 small commercial kitchens in a big warehouse space, and each kitchen has a small serving booth attached. The warehouse has a bar and seating etc, so it's like having four or five different restaurants in one space that change each night. The kitchens are also 24 hrs so some food makers come in late at night / early in the morning to make things that don't need immediate serving, like pickled goods or dog food, and sell them offsite. It owns.

Of course they just got served with a notice to move out in the next year or two so a developer can build yet another apartment building there.

gently caress that sounds cool

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 06:55

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

my TV is huge because capitalism taught me that the bigger my TV the bigger my self worth

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 07:00

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Screaming Idiot posted:

i don't even own a TV, i just stop taking my medication and get all my entertainment from the spiders who tell me that the neighbors are globalists trying to poison the water supply and that the only way i can stop them is masturbating in a Taco Bell while screaming the lyrics to Rocky Mountain High

lol if you can afford your medication gtfo this thread you one percenter

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 18:34

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

IIRC if it's certain kinds of drugs (generally the more controlled substances) they have to fill it exactly as written even if the doc didn't check the "no substitutions box", but I'm pretty sure something as benign as albuterol doesn't fall into that category. Yeah I'd check with your doctor and see if they accidentally wrote it weird or if they can rewrite it specifically for "albuterol" or something.

e: I found this out when my doctor wrote a script for my ADD meds and they wouldn't fill it with anything but the like $600 name-brand, and when I told him about it he started writing it out in full but it's a very long thing to write out so he eventually got tired of doing it by the third or fourth visit and would just hand me a blank, signed prescription and tell me to take it to the nurse at the front desk and have her fill it out

Adderall? Because lol at writing that all out.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2019 21:25

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

Yeah it was Adderall, and yeah he had to write the whole fuckin' thing out.

Actually thinking about it, my current doctor just writes "Adderall XR" and they fill it with the generic, so maybe my last pharmacy was just full of poo poo

If I were in his position I'd write generic and circle it like 100 times

# ¿ Aug 25, 2019 21:33

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

Also once he forgot the "XR" part and the pharmacy refused to take it even though I've been getting XR for years at this point so I took it back to the doctor's office and asked the guy at the front desk if I could get the doc to write a new one or something. He then took the script, wrote "XR" at the end, gave it back and stared at me like I was an idiot, all without saying anything.

Then the pharmacy gave me poo poo because the XR was in a different handwriting and pen, which is exactly why I didn't just loving do that myself rear end in a top hat

That pharmacy sucks, lol. Wow

# ¿ Aug 25, 2019 21:40

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

mY sZeCHuaN sAuCE!

# ¿ Aug 27, 2019 21:15

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

The Nastier Nate posted:

Wouldn’t it be crazy if we instead of paying 5 levels of corporate beauracrats we used that money to pay doctors and nurses to do healthcare?

socialism isn't going to pay doctors they're going to be forced to work, remember?

# ¿ Aug 29, 2019 02:16

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Kanine posted:

is there a thread anywhere on sa specifically for anarchism?

I'm sure there's a "kids say the darndest things" thread somewhere

# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 03:02

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

autism ZX spectrum posted:

strange, seems they have a union and employee morale isn't in the shitter? Wonder why

# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 03:10

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

is it possible to be a landlord and not deserve the guillotine? or is the very nature of "rent" unethical?

like what if I rent a place I own out at "half price" to someone who needs it

# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 03:55

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

well there are maintenance costs and certainly property taxes, it's theoretically possible to lose money landlording

lol forever at that ever happening tho

yeah, okay, so let's say I'm a landlord who lets someone live in the property if they cover all of the taxes/maintenance/utilities, but otherwise no rent. seems like that's gotta be near the boundaries of ethics

of course until that person is taxed appropriately, they obviously have an unethical amount of wealth if they have property they can rent out

# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 04:57

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Rarity posted:

What kind of loss are we talking about here? Are you charging less than the cost of gas/electric/etc.?

And does "have a condo" mean you're accumulating equity and/or wealth through property value appreciation?

# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 16:24

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:59

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

yeah if there's profit you're a piece of poo poo, even I knew that when I asked the original question

# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 16:49

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