burn down capitalism, not the planet

ekjohnston:

finnglas:

stillhere-erehllits:

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo’s advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I’ve spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, “Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I’ve learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now.”

And then I don’t feel like I “wasted” things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it’s time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

The time Marie Kondo said “you can thank a a shirt you’ve never worn for teaching you about your taste”, thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

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mreullogy:

viking369:

depsidase:

My childhood: Socialism will make you share your home and car!

Today: Yeah, we can’t pay you enough to live, but here are a couple of apps so you can make some money sharing your home and car.

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raevenlywrites:

teashadephoenix:

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

First ape to go to the watering hole with a container and put some of the water in it so that they could drink more later without returning to the watering hole must have been lauded as a fucking genius.

Actually, as someone who used to study anthropology (albeit a very long time ago), I think it is generally accepted by now that the ability to Carry Containers Of Stuff is generally agreed to be one of the real tool-using leaps in human development, perhaps as important as fire. I mean, you’ll get the impression that people studying early humans are basically spearhead experts, but that’s just because spearheads don’t decay. (And because for a long time people assumed that hunting was The Most Important Thing, which has a fascinating intersection with implicit bias and sexism and stuff, and yes I am still bitter at things like 2001 for popularizing the idea that the most important part of human evolution was the ability to bash the shit out of a thing/animal/person, but that’s a whole other story.)

Carrying stuff is huge.

If you can put meat in a bag, you can carry more meat. If you can put something like nuts in a bag, then nuts abruptly become a food that you can bring back to the tribe or save for later and not a food that you’re required to eat on the spot because they are tiresome and stupid to carry by hand. In both cases your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better.

If you can put your baby in a bag, you now have both your hands free to stick a spear into things, pick nuts, fish, dig tasty cicadas out of the ground, etc. Your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better, and so did your ability to defend yourself while you do it. (And let’s face it, your babies were already getting downright ridiculous in terms of the time it takes them to be fully walking-ready, due to brain size and being essentially premature; inventing Multitasking With Baby is like, pure survival at this point, and your way to do that is to create a specialized bag.)

If you can put water in a bag (first water containers very well may have been animal bladders or stomachs, not pots) you can bring water to your sick tribe members and they have a much higher chance of recovering.

And then you have elaborations of the basic “thing that contains objects” idea. If you make an exceptionally loosely woven bag and put it in the water, you can on occasion finesse some fish into it. And then you have delicious fish. If you put yourself in a loose and flexible bag of animal skin, your tribe can operate in the cold better, which changes your entire migration pattern and opens up new environments to you. If you make a hard container and fill it with water and put it over your fire, you have invented a new type of cooking that unlocks whole new food types, such as vegetables that need softening in order for humans to eat them. (Of course at the same time your stomach is becoming steadily more dependent on being able to fuck with your food in this way, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because the less energy you spend on digestion, the more energy you have to spend on other things, like brains. And big brains are good for unlocking whole new levels of communication, allowing for fantastic new levels of foraging cooperation, passing knowledge through generations, mate selection, and even various sorts of mental recreation where you imagine something that you don’t see, and then convey that to your fellow beings.)

Bags are important, is what I’m saying.

I love all of this but I am going absolutely FERAL over the correlation that clothes = person bag. Bc you’re so right but I never woulda thought of it like that

i lost it at “put that baby in a bag bc its already taking a ridiculously long time to walk on its own goddamn”

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guerrillatech:

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paintedpolarbear:

charyou-tree:

strawberry-crocodile:

cosmicretreat:

the thing about capitalism is that at a certain point a product reaches its maximum audience and cant really be improved (at least not while remaining profitable), but capitalism requires a product provide infinite growth, and at that point the only way to increase profits is to raise prices, cut corners, and in the case of services start adding advertisements. this is just how the system works.

Rent-seeking - Wikipedia

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Rent-seeking is the act of growing one’s existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

The actual economic term for this parasitic behavior is “Rent Seeking”, as in “charging you rent for things that didn’t used to cost money just because we can.”

“The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a property owner who installs a chain across a river that flows through their land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector, nor do passing boats get anything in return. The owner has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for themselves. All they are doing is finding a way to obtain money from something that used to be free.”

obtain money links to the wikipedia article for Parasitism which might be the most brutal diss I’ve ever seen on wikipedia ever

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darrylayo:

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crunchygranoladyke:

i know i’ve said this before but i’m going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that’s like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that’s not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can’t bounce back from because you didn’t do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don’t want that to be you.

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upamilion:

realistically i dont think i fit in anywhere, but im just trying to enjoy life for what it is

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lakesbian:

cats are really useful for when you need a small animal to sit 10-15 feet away from you and stare at you with unceasing neutrality

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lambergeier:

the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

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