We live in a country where Billionaires are having their own private Space Race, while people that work for them pee in bottles to meet deadlines. Clearly the system is perfect, and cannot be improved.
A corollary: mental health is essential, and sometimes that means buying things or experiences that make your mental health better. Living poor is stressful. If they need a bit of weed to get through it, I'm not going to look down on them for it.
The mere act of survival requires a modicum of rational thought. Poor people have been driven to it through desperation to survive. The middle class - what's left of it - won't until they get truly hungry. There's a wide gap between the latest smart watch and tonight's dinner.
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
OK but let’s shame hypocrites that whine about $3.00 gas or eggs, but spend $200+ per person per day on annual trips to Disney in their massive trucks purchased “on time” with 15% APR.
Just a thought: Maybe we should stop criticizing the poor for buying non-essentials and start holding the rich accountable for making a profit off the essentials we can’t live without. But hey, why fix the system when we can blame the ones struggling to survive?
I get your point, but the poor who voted for Trump because they couldn't afford eggs and then bought unnecessary things just because it was black Friday deserve the shame.
Why cant everyone have enough to live happily? Why do some people have so much more than others yet its never enough to make them happy? Why do we shame people for getting something that makes them happy?
Not sure who is shaming the poor for buying unnecessary things. It is more like we are waiting for when the reality hits them about the daily products and the prices. As for shaming the CEOs, they could give a shit about us shaming them. My humble opinion 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
This is true.. but as happened this year.. when people say fuck it.. I’m not buying whatever.. and their profits suffer then they care a lot.. and magically prices drop.. so using our collective consumer power has real life consequences..
I don’t disagree with you but my point was that for essential household items and food, public pressure to these CEOs seldom works. The things that people can live without short term, public pressure to bring down sale of such products work because it is affecting their profitability.
Barbra Erinriech had an article from the mid 90's where she describes it as a sado-masochist obsession in the American psyche which drives us to deprive ourselves for the aggrandizement of our "betters".
More people should be aware of this amazing woman and the works she did. RIP, courageous lady, she put herself in others' shoes and tried to make the word a better place. 💔
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Well, define the "poor". Cause I know lots of well-off middle class who gripped about the price of eggs all while filling up their big trucks and driving home to their 100" TV's.
EXORBITANT Gluttonous Profit but no Social Security benefits for you that you paid for that’s for to pay for our tax cuts!! The Trump Gangster Regime soon running out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
I vote for this. I pay 10% tax on my earnings they should pay that and more… non of this unrealized earnings.. fuck that… if you can spend it can be taxed.. such a shit system crated by the wealthy for the wealthy.. #taxtherich #fuckem
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Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
Americans just wont stop self-harming 🫤