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Hmmmm. Sounds like something UBI could solve.
Except there are a lot of people who believe that the homelessness and suffering is natural, correct, and deserved.
Maybe in America, but in most other places homelessness isn’t demonised nearly as much (also America is probably the only place that will make you homeless if you get seriously ill).
I think somewhere in the Nordic states, they’ve trialled UBI in an area and I think with success.
Edit: So the results are a mixed bag, as you would expect, but generally people were much happier with UBI.
Innovation I tell you, gawd damn innovation… Day late, dollor short. Too much and never enough. Can you smell the stench of toxic positive optimism, the self satisfaction of those that don’t think they will be left with the bag. You know the “low level winner” of inconsequential gains… One extra bowl of slop. The vain and envious… The non factual lacking in the mathematical. Oh what grand ol world. Capitalism is as natural as a ice pick rammed up my arse.
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6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.
Starting work at 6am? Luxury! In my day we started our day’s work the day before, and didn’t finish until two days after!
Sarcasm is kind of offensive in some situations. My point is there are people who start their working hours at 7:00 am, but there are cities so big and chaotic that is not rare people need over an hour to get to their workplaces. Millions of people can’t wake up as late as 6:30 am. It’s a privilege.
In my burb, workers have to race to the bus, in order to get their bikes into one of two racks.
90% of this is just good hygiene.
A lot of people skip the fighting traffic part of their hygiene routines and it shows smh
I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.
As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.
My state has stripped unemployment down to 12 weeks, after that went by after my layoff at Christmas, I got so desperate and depressed and a little bit crazy. As the day is ticked closer to my first missed mortgage payment and car payment, And the thought of homelessness for me and my animals became a sobering reality, I started taking every interview I could possibly find, no preparation, just winging it until something worked.
During that whole process, I saw what the endgame is, we are slaves, but there is no slave master anymore, we do that part ourselves to avoid dying on the street.
So I am very motivated to start my own niche company and get the fuck away from this whole system at this point. Especially since I will have to work until I die, 401ks have all been cashed out during crises.
My endgame is to pull the rug on the whole thing by offering, in a capricious way, something better
Yeah turns out usa didn’t reinvent the wheel super good or something. You have all been scammed under the pretense of liberty.
Now go fix it.
Imagine life as a video game where you must find the way through a maze, discover keys and find treasures in order to win.
For example, you must find a way to sustain yourself (a maze), find the key to health (power) and avoid the beasts (corporate control).
People spend thousands of hours playing all sorts of games but neglect to properly play the game of life, instead they accept what they are offered by the power players.The difference is that in video games there are rules that you have to follow and you’re actually allowed to win.
Real life the winners already won and wrote the rules
The cheat code is unionization.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller
Wildcat strikes. Unions can be infiltrated.
Shit game, I’m gonna hit reset.
This isn’t a fucking meme. It’s a great quote, but doesn’t belong here.
Language changes. “Meme” used to mean an idea that has taken hold and become part of culture. Now it’s any composition of images and/or words posted online.
Yeah, maybe. It certainly is a tragedy. I miss it when memes were just dumb shit which a person with an inane, absurdist sense of humor could appreciate. Politics are everywhere now.
How isn’t it a meme? It’s an idea that’s been repeated and passed through many people, surviving in its distilled but still exploitable form.
So, I looked up the term on Wikipedia. It sais: “An Internet meme, or meme ([/miːm/], [MEEM]), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms]. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs], and other viral content. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term meme was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1972 to describe the concept of cultural transmission.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
I’ll let you be the judge of whether this fits that definition or not. (And whether it’s worth your time arguing about something being a meme).
mods, MOOODS! take’m otta here 🏃♂️🚨👮♀️👮♂️
Almost no modern “memes” are actually memes anymore.
What do you think a meme is?
Sometimes people will only see things through certain avenues. In this case, a not-so-accurate category.
“I know, but I wanted people to see it”
This type of behaviour is bannable on platforms with functioning moderation
Thank god this place doesnt have functioning “moderation”. The fediverse is literally the last place on earth where billinaires dont tell you what to do.
Moderation is not bad in itself, it is curating of content to keep topics on track and quality above a certain limit. It has absolutely nothing to do with billionaires or their desires. A lot of subs on different instances are really shitty because of lacking moderation. Leaving subs completely unmoderated is a recipe for a disaster shitpile.
The good old forum days also had a lot of moderation to keep them from turning to shit.
Nuance. As you can see in my comment, i wrote it “moderation” which is supposed to mean the form of moderation that antisocial media is up to.
Nothing in the other persons comment suggests that type of moderation though
That one is called context. The commenter rants about in their eyes unfitting content would be removed if this place had functioning moderation. This is figuratively the exact opposite what lemmy is about.
(User was born after the last BB forum was shut down)
Guess what? This user has been avidly online since the BBS days and really … posters such as yourself were very annoying back then, too.
For a time I lived awakened by the birds and a purring kittty and the golden dawn.
I would evacuate and then make a pot of French press and sit and and enjoy a cigarette and caffeine while my kitty and I watched hummingbirds flit among them flowers.
I would sleep when my work was done and I was tired. I’d bathe before bed and curl up with the kitty purring at my feet.
Minutes are a human construct. Rebel against them.
Cool. How’d you monetize this, exactly, and how well did it pay?
Magic and pushing buttons in the right order.
The order is the fiddly bit
Sounds absolutely lovely, alas unsustainable in the current world and at least my current region.
Yes, people are the worst.
we live in a culture where the value of your life is measured by how much money you have
we live in a culture where the value of your life is measured by how much money you
havecan make for your ownerCalvin Candie: Your boss looks a little green around the gills.
Django: He just ain’t used to seein’ a man ripped apart by dogs is all.
Calvin Candie: But you are used to it?
Django: I’m just a little more used to Americans than he is.
This has triggered a vague memory of a joke by someone (I think Douglas Adams?). But I can’t remember the full quote so putting this out there in case someone knows it.
Basically humanity was smarter than other animals because we didn’t adapt ourselves to the environment, but adapted the environment to suit us. So now instead of having to adapt we just have to… wake up at 6:45 am when the alarm goes off, drive to work at 7 30 am etc.
Does anyone know it or was I having some kind of fever dream?
I think this is in the movie “The gods must be crazy” : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
That’s it! Thank you, that was really bugging me. No idea why I thought it was Douglas Adams 🤦♂️
Easy. Money. Pay me well and I’ll do it.
Best we can do is $3.50.
What do you MEAN no??? People just don’t want to work these days!!!
We need to do something about that. We’ve built this neat “factility” here where you will “live” so you stop breaking the law. Yes, you will have to work there and your windows have bars. What do you mean forced labour? You broke the law by not working!
But if you do all this self employed its suddenly fine?
If you are self employed, why are you making lots of money for somebody else?
Person you replied to is drunk on the Kool aid, explaining what they couldn’t see in the first place won’t help.
If you do it because you do it for yourself (and presumably want to), it’s much better, yes.
there is no ethical consumption
🤷♂️ my 911 seems to make it worth it.
Yea my family seems to like the freedom of not having to do anything financially speaking.
by an alarm clock,
Sounds like a personal choice. Im up before 630 every day without an alarm clock. Try going to bed earlier?
leap out of bed,
Or just, get out of bed. Like every person on the planet.
dress,
Would you rather be nude?
force-feed,
You mean eat? Somebody forcing you? Youre bitching about breakfast?
shit, piss, brush teeth and hair,
If pooping/peeing are upsetting to you, you have bigger issues.
and fight traffic to get to a place where
Why fight the traffic? You are the traffic. Fighting it is a personal choice.
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You’re getting paid too, right?
and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
Who’s asking/telling you how to feel about it?
Dude needs therapy
Y’all are missing the forrest for the trees
God forbid someone add a bit of literary sugar to their argument, else they be picked apart by pedants.
Your company is successful, is that a problem? You’re getting paid too, right?
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
Who’s asking/telling you how to feel about it?
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
Dude needs therapy
Too bad it’s unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
Not getting paid commensurate to your contribution to the success of the company
He doesn’t mention how much he is being paid. His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
The news, society at large, people like you online posting replies like this very one
I didn’t say he should be grateful, or how he should feel. I read the news, live in society, can’t recall ever hearing that I should be grateful for my job. You?
Too bad it’s unaffordable. Maybe you need to look at the state of society
You think that’s the problem here? He couldn’t afford some help for whatever is going on with him? Or (since you charged me with being part of the problem), could his problems be exacerbated by folks like you, commiserating, raging against the machine of such horrors as waking up, eating breakfast, having a job.
You’re reply is disingenuous in the extreme, because nobody is this subtext illeteriate.
His complaint is that someone else is making lots of money.
He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It’s like the “taxation is theft” people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
I didn’t say he should be grateful
You absolutely said he should be grateful for his job, you just didn’t use those words. You mocked him for complaining about his job. Those two things are a distinction without meaning difference.
This messaging is all over the media. If you’re trying to say it isn’t then you’re either lying or you’re tragically media illeteriate.You think that’s the problem here
You’re the one complaining about his mental health.
But no you’re right, it’s people like me online in 2025 who affected the mental health of the author of the [checks notes] 1975 book, causing him to use [gasp in horror] a literary flourish. Great job there, detective, you cracked the case!
Thank god you didn’t embarrass yourself at all!He said he is making lots of money for someone else. He is making the money, therefore it is his money, not the money if the other person. It’s like the “taxation is theft” people are unable to apply the same logic on the owners of the boots they lick.
I don’t understand. You don’t believe in hiring, paying wages? Like if you hire me to help you build a website, i should keep the profits of what you sell? Or, more directly, if you later sell the website, that money is mine?
I was questioning all his complaints, including having to shit and piss, and said that indicates bigger problems and needs therapy. You hear mocking and “you should be grateful”? Disingenuous in the extreme, nobody is this subtext delusional!
The message is all over the media that I should be grateful, im sorry I literally can’t think of a time I came across that. I hear people suggesting gratitude practice as a way of feeling joy, or maybe would expect “you should feel grateful” at church or some religious context, but, I dunno, maybe im very selective about the media i consume?
I read the news, live in society, can’t recall ever hearing that I should be grateful for my job. You?
Yes, very often actually. I live in the US. This is pretty much the attitude of all conservatives when talking about minorities making minimum wage or less. I’m a white male and have been told I should be grateful i have a job by my boss too. One of my friends I used to work with didn’t receive a raise when almost everyone else did. He is Latino, and our white boss told him he was privileged to be working there at all. I’m happy for you for never having to experience that, but it is unfortunately all too common.
Or just, get out of bed. Like every person on the planet.
Look videos of apes to undrstand why that’s not how it should work.
says Charles Bukowski needs therapy is a small understatement.
