that had better be $40 billion paid to every individual Indigenous person.
for a start.
but it’s not.
merely $40,000, and only to children in on-reserve system since 2006, with no compensation for the over 150,000 Indigenous children in the
residential school system before 2006.
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and you know the several-mining-companies-in-a-trenchcoat federal government resisted to entire process.
speaking of amazon, it wasn’t the only company to threaten employees if they didn’t leave before the storm. this needs to be a discussion as much as climate change. people were fucking locked in factories and warehouses. we should never look at the triangle shirtwaist factory fire as a mistake of the past…corporations don’t change when they don’t have to.
i edit video lectures for a university as my job, and i’m currently editing a PR course. the lecturer is a PR agent and naturally VERY good at twisting words to bend the truth. she was talking about PR history and at one point said “In the early 1900s, business were being forced to submit to more government regulation and they encountered hostile criticism from the press.” immediately before describing the triangle shirtwaist factory fire as the point when “corporations realized that deception, manipulation, and self-serving half-truths were inappropriate to media challenges.” as IF lmao. then she used the ludlow massacre as an example of a ~good~ PR agent convincing mr. rockefeller to talk to the press and change his ways, ending the section by saying rockefeller went down in history as “one of the greatest philanthropists of all time.”
immediately after that she started talking about the next stage of PR, epitomized by edward bernays who she first lifts up by saying how cool it was that he convinced americans to eat bacon for breakfast and that’s super widespread now, before adding at the end that he was also the guy who engineered mass marketing cigarettes to women in the 20s. but this guy is totally a good person! because “he was haunted by this campaign later in life, when he became aware of the dangers of tobacco use.”
and the entire time i’m editing all of this the only thing i can think about is that amazon warehouse and how this woman definitely knows about stuff like that because it’s her job to mitigate what she calls “reputation crises;” whenever she brings up horrible labor abuses or massacres she always does it with the intent of lifting up the PR agents whose job it was to lie to the public and try to regain the corporation’s reputation, at the same time as she’s saying the unethical days of PR are behind us lmao
Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about… It’saWonderfulLife(1946)dir.FrankCapra
Some notes don’t get it… Yes that is literally what it is, the idea that working less is just morally wrong.
I get the point being made here, but it’s wrong. This isn’t some ‘feelings beat facts’ thing, that’s not how countries are run in the real world. If it really were less productive for capitalism for kids to start so early and workers to have more time off, then that’s what businesses would be doing - but they’re not. Why is this? The answer isn’t that capitalists suddenly all decided that they don’t actually care about profit and would rather sabotage their own bottom line - it’s that it is in fact more profitable to do it this way.
As an example, we can point out how it’d be cheaper to give free housing to homeless people than constantly policing and arresting them. Is this an example of capitalism giving up its profitability to enforce some ideological vice? No! Because if we think just one step further, we can realise that, while a lot of money is spent on policing homeless people, the policing of homeless people generates a lot of money, too. The threat of homelessness forces people to accept harsher, more exploitative jobs. The threat of homelessness forces people to put themselves in debt for housing. The fact that there are at any time a lot of people in a terrible situation desperate for a job means that those who do have jobs are under threat of being fired at any time and replaced with any one of the thousands who are desperate for their job.
With work, even if it makes the worker less productive, it’s more profitable to keep them at work as long as you can. Remember, your boss isn’t buying your labour, he’s buying your time. Time you spend doing shitty work for him is time you’re not spending doing anything else - like working a second job at his competitor, or any number of activities it’d be much better to sell to you. Same with school - you might be getting worse grades from coming in early, but the point is to take you off your parents’ hands so they can go to work, and we already discussed why their boss wants them in as long as possible. Actually teaching you is a secondary goal insofar as it’ll make you a better worker, and hey, if you get an office job it’s a good habit to learn to take your work home, where your boss doesn’t have to pay overtime.
In the real world, ideological and moral values like ‘working less is just wrong’ are products of a real material benefit for a certain social group - to say that it’s the ideology that’s in control of material reality, and not the other way around, is backwards.
They didn’t get any white chocolate raspberry truffles, but some could argue that they got their just desserts.
Six men in what police described as a “large group” of anti-vaccine protesters were arrested Tuesday night as they attempted to stage a “sit-in″ at a Cheesecake Factory in Queens, New York.
Police arrived at the chain restaurant about 7 p.m. Tuesday in response to a 911 call claiming trespassing, the New York Police Department told HuffPost via an emailed statement.
The restaurant employee who called in the complaint said she asked to see the group’s COVID-19 vaccination cards when they entered the restaurant, in accordance with New York City’s indoor dining mandate. But the members of the group refused. A local newspaper, the Queens Daily Eagle, said the group of about 30 people included children as young as 10.
Instead, the protesters blew past the host stand, ignoring a line of other customers waiting to be seated, and sat at empty tables throughout the restaurant as well as at the bar, according to footage posted on social media.
A group of anti-vaccine extremists staged a sit-in at The Cheesecake Factory in Queens, NYC, and at least 6 of the approx. 30 who took part were arrested for trespassing.
Cringe ass fail country
If you say that all this can be calculated using a table, including chaos and darkness and curses, then the mere possibility of a prior calculation could stop it all and reason would take its hold. In such a case man would make himself crazy on purpose, so that he wouldn’t have reason and could stand his ground! I believe in this, I answer for it, because the whole of man’s work seems to consist of nothing else but the constant proving to himself that he is a man and not a piano key! It may cost him his skin, he may have to prove it by becoming a savage. And such being the case, how can one resist the urge to rejoice that this hasn’t yet come to pass, and that desire still depends on something unknown to us?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via philosophybits)
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