Yeah that's exactly what's happening. There are lot of very smart, well paid people whose job is to balance the degree of economic precarity the working class is in to keep the workers from gaining any power they could use for leverage. That's what's happening right now the rail strike being crushed, the massive tech layoffs, and the fed just fully mask-off saying it's going to fuck with the interest rates to raise unemployment.
They all read Marx. They know how labor power works.
Sometimes I feel like the machine doesn’t even want you to have the semblance of financial stability. Like as if there’s an incentive to keep people stressed and depressed knowing they’re barely making it each month.
That's exactly right. It's called precarity and is a feature of the system. Can't mount an effective defense of your rights if you're not sure where your next meal will come from.
Are you a real leftist if you haven't bummed out at least 3 people today?
I'm pretty sure whatever they pay to the donor is included in "costs 150 to obtain". In my experience they typically pay $50 to $100.
Xi hovering six feet off the ground surrounded by a whirling constellation of pineal glands and eyes.
smash mouth was right the world really is a vampire
Lol I felt very HOW DARE YOU but almost let it go because I figured it's likely a joke, but then I realized that if they did it on purpose, they at least deserve the satisfaction of knowing they succeeded in triggering one (1) millennial. How dare they slander the music of my youth?
I have a friend who always intentionally mixes up Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and it always, always throws me. Smashmouth vs Smashing Pumpkins might just be how I get back at them.
Okay but guys, what if we democratically managed the blood sucking clinics?
My favorite question on the questionnaire was if I had received money or gifts in exchange for sex in the past few months. What if I did? Daddy's got to pay the bills.
TBH, these questions are aimed to reduce chances of Hepatitis C in blood and it's pretty hard to detect in early stages.
How do we guarantee that donated blood is being used for a good cause and not sold for profit?
It's not that you shouldn't donate blood, it still saves lives.
If you don't want someone to profit from your lifesaving blood donation, your only option is overthrowing capitalism.
Holy shit I never even thought about that. "Oh donating blood is good. They're not allowed to sell blood anyway!"
No, of course they get their cut from the medical bills.
Nope. Literal vampire capitalism.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks literal vampire capitalism lmao
Capitalism is when suck blood, and the more blood it sucks, the more capitalist it is.
Some beta readers for my books, the ones that asked "Why do you hate the job creators so much?" :bootlicker: also found it unbelievable that the ruling class in my stories subsisted on the (genetically altered to suit them even better than in the present) blood of the enslaved underclass.
Being a Cassandra sucks. :marx-goth:
The british really need Irish blood. But actually, type O seems to be more common in Ireland.
