SchillMenaker [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I can’t express with words how much I love this post.

    My younger brother is a lifelong conservative and I’m always trying to chip away at his ideology. I think that the most impactful thing I’ve ever said to him to get him to question capitalism’s organization of labor and resources was something along the lines of "We have incredible modern technology that has almost unlimited capacity to change the way that people live and function in the world, and the people who are the most skilled and educated in developing that technology are spending 100% of their time trying to serve you slightly more relevant banner ads.














  • I usually don’t start political shit with people in real life but anytime anyone mentions poor people “spending all their money” and “not saving anything” I immediately bring up April 2020 and the fact that a single month of people staying home and not making frivolous purchases nearly collapsed the global Western economy.

    Poor people literally can’t save money or everything these people hold dear would come crashing down (which, sounds awesome but the fallout would be magically externalized to poor people like it always is).