robotlyra:

Don’t confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don’t want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens’ basic survival needs.

indi-flying-with-dragons:

churchyardgrim:

freelancerkiwi:

questbedhead:

bahorelfanclub:

colacharm:

captainjack1999:

colacharm:

benditlikegumby:

spirit-of-science:

colacharm:

adults, while forcing all children above the age of 5 to sit still, be silent, and obey orders for 7-8 hours a day with minimal breaks, reducing their exposure to fresh air and sunlight to almost nothing, forcing them to alter their natural sleeping patterns to increase productivity, and repeatedly telling them their self worth depends on their being able to follow these instructions perfectly for 13 or more years: kids these days are so lazy! they never go outside! they never want to do anything! clearly it’s not because of us!

The way we treat children is extremely inhumane, but so many adults want to dismiss it because it’s so normalized

You… You do realize that’s what it’s like to be a working adult…? And our days are even longer.

thats because an 8 hour work day is extortion and should be illegal. next question.

Either you’ve never had a job or you’re just lazy af. There’s nothing wrong with 9 to 5 jobs. Nobody is forcing people to work them and people need the hours to make more money. People get breaks too.

Please take a biology class & get some help. People shouldnt have to do work 80% of the day to survive.

@captainjack1999

1. the eight–hour work-day is cruelty

2. capitalism is forcing people to work. i could just quit my job and hang out at home – but then i would lose my house and most likely starve to death, because of the way our economy works.

3. breaks for most establishments are a mere 30 minutes for an 8-hour shift; at my first job, for a 6-hour shift, your break would only be 15 minutes and any longer shift would only get 30. studies say people are more productive if for every hour you work, you get a 15-minute break – meaning, for an 8-hour shift, you’d need an hour-long break, and so on and so forth.

the way modern society views work is unhealthy for loads of reasons, not just what i mentioned here. the fact that we’re preparing children for such a torturous lifestyle is horrific.

Also like…. small children are not adults. Small children should not be held to the same standards as adults. Even if the 8 hour work day WAS healthy, it would be inhumane to hold a small child to the same standard.

The school system was literally designed to train people for factory work back when child labour was legal so that should tell you how fucked that is

gotta love how these conversations always go like

“hey this is a shitty way to treat small children”

“excuse you, adults have it even worse!”

“cool, you shouldn’t have to struggle that hard, we should work to fix that”

“what the hell no this is fine and natural”

if it’s fine, then why were you complaining about it! you can’t pull the “we have it worse” card and then turn around and defend that same situation, that’s not how this works

@destan-of-the-shadows @feminismandmedia

nothousehunting:

Why do we make the people who make the least amount of money and work the hardest jobs go to work on Labor Day, a day that’s supposed to be a day off for workers, and then on top of making them come to work, have crazy sales that make them work three times as hard as they normally would? Why can’t we just give everyone the day off?