Sunday, August 25, 2024

Random Tweets (2021)

The problem with capitalism is that if you aren't born into wealth, your only capital is your labor. So automatically, your human body, is now a commodity that you must sell, and if you can't sell it for enough, you won't be able to care for it and will lose your capital. (January 26, 2021) 



"Poverty is a failure of society, not an individual." - Jess Scarane (January 31, 2021)



"Why does rent go up but the quality of the apartment stays the same?!" - Tinker Hell (February 2, 2021)



"The wrong people have money." (March 20, 2021)

 

 

At some point we have to recognize that the financial anxiety young people are living through is not normal. (March 28, 2021)



"Very rough Easter." - Beth (April 4, 2021)



"I'm not saying you should tear this country down brick by brick but I am saying that your government denying you healthcare, especially during a pandemic, is, in the least, criminally negligent and in many cases, arguably, premeditated murder." - Aaron (August 7, 2021)



"What’s it called when the bank says you cannot afford a $950 mortgage payment so you’re stuck paying $1500 in rent instead." - Alex (August 8, 2021)



My company does this icebreaker thing where every week a different person sends an email to the whole company talking about their average day, and today's coworker started his "I wake up each day furious to be laboring under capitalism" and it has caused quite a stir. (September 3, 2021)



"Berliners just decisively voted to expropriate ~240,000 apartments currently owned by “mega-landlords” " - Karishma Mehta (September 27, 2021)



Corporate censorship is to be opposed even (especially?) when it is just some infantile, reactionary fool being "deplatformed." (December 14, 2021)




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