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bemusedlybespectacled:

porterdavis:

This is a commonly misattributed quote: it was not written by Orwell, but by the two authors who adapted 1984 into a play in 2014, long after cell phones were invented (and after “cell phone bad” hysteria started).

(It’s also dumb as shit because the whole thing with 1984 was that looking at the screens during news broadcasts was mandatory and the screens were watching you – the concept of a dystopia brought about by pacifying the masses with entertainment is a Brave New World thing, not a 1984 thing)

bill-blake-fans-anonymous:

Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

  • Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think aren’t doing enough to improve it?
  • Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?
  • Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?
  • Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?

maeples:

comatose–overdose:

metalheadsagainstfascism:

miseducatedmelanicmuse:

Oh yeah this the ONE!!

I make $18/hr and yes. It’s poverty wages.

“But like… that’s like so much more money than I make. Stop complaining.”

No.

I won’t stop complaining.

Just because your poverty wages are worse than my poverty wages doesn’t mean that I don’t have the right to be mad about my poverty wages. In many parts of the country you can’t even afford an apartment at $20/hr. Including where I live.

Not to mention the cost of medication for my disabled ass. Every wage looks a hell of a lot different if you have to spend hundreds to thousands a month on your life saving medication.

Minimum wage should be $30/hr. Period.

-fae

Minimum wage should scale with the cost of living for an area actually. In places where the cost of living is astronomical, even $30 an hour wouldn’t cut it. In San Francisco, a true living wage would be closer to $70 an hour. It would be a major incentive to regulate prices on damn near everything, but housing especially, because companies definitely don’t want to shell out that much in wages.

[ID: a tweet from @1anjohn that says: $15 an hour is poverty and I think we need to say that loudly because right now companies use it as a badge of honor]