alder-knight:

the human drive to compete for greatest misery is truly incredible

as if there were any greater gift we could give the capitalists than a competitive desire to show how much abuse we can withstand, and how little we’re willing to do it for

until we all accept that mistreatment of any of us is unacceptable and that puritan denial and overwork are not virtues, we’re going to continue to race to the bottom, and the winners will always be the bosses

this message brought to you by the cashier who laughed at my coworker and me for needing to stretch during a tabling shift 😐

the human drive to compete for greatest misery is truly incredible

as if there were any greater gift we could give the capitalists than a competitive desire to show how much abuse we can withstand, and how little we’re willing to do it for

until we all accept that mistreatment of any of us is unacceptable and that puritan denial and overwork are not virtues, we’re going to continue to race to the bottom, and the winners will always be the bosses

“we’re just taking your kids for a bath”

is what they told mothers detained at the border

and they took the kids and sent them away

and it’s not the same but it’s sticking in my chest because it just rhymes neatly with my first memory of learning about the holocaust

the bars of soap, the promises of showers

it’s not the same, it’s not the same, but baby Alder cried for days after first learning that history, and it’s hitting me right in exactly the same place

god