I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It’s price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
When will this sack of filth be held accountable. Two-tiered justice system.
If you’ve ever been in any courtroom for any reason you might have noticed you don’t get treated with kid gloves like Orange Hitler. In fact many judges are likely to flip out on you if you’re poor or marginalized.
As a kid, when your parents are poor, you’re poor. If they don’t have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone’s parents are rich, that doesn’t necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples’ kids aren’t rich kids, they’re just some rich freak’s exotic pets that can talk but aren’t allowed to.
That’s… not how class works
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OK, so- my partner was adopted by a rich woman when he was a baby. She’s from a prominent family, practically royalty where we’re from. She certainly had the means to send him to fancy private school, give him good food, nice clothes/toys, premium healthcare… she chose not to. According to her he was lucky to be “adopted out of poverty” at all and should have been content with what she deigned to give him. And she reminded him of this constantly, all through his childhood.
She dangled the promise of uni in exchange for good behavior and good grades- with terms and conditions, of course. And filling her laundry list of demands was something like pulling teeth whilst jumping through hoops. In the end, did he get to go to uni? Of course not. (And certainly being queer/trans on top of it all did not help things whatsoever).
He cut her off after high school, and when I met him a year ago he had been working as (the equivalent of) an UberEats driver for a living for the last few years, including through the pandemic. (Sixteen hours a day for the equivalent of $6 (six) USD, not including the gas for his shitty rundown scooter; caught COVID twice, suffers from chronic fatigue to this day).
And to this day he still has to be selective about which of our ~leftist anarcho-commie~ friends he divulges this part of his background to- cos all they hear is “raised rich” and then suddenly he’s not One of Them because “well teeeeechncially :^) you’re from the oppressing class…”. Like…. shit, man!
Social rules don’t mean shit when it comes to abusive parents. Even rich ones.
Probably especially rich ones.
There is such a thing as financial abuse, and that applies regardless of class!
have you ever shipped something so hard that you become irrationally happy and make a sound akin to steam escaping from a kettle everytime they so much as stand next to eachother
[grandma voice] back in my day, sonny, we called it “squeeing”.
Yknow when you see a post and you’re like “oh I have to reblog this for The Mutual” and then you scroll up and you see that the one who reblogged it is The Mutual
people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works
what this post has shown me is that so many of people on this hellsite cannot distinguish between a poor little meow meow and a blorbo from my shows smh
I only just saw pics of the Godzilla 1998 animatronic recently but I kinda can’t stop thinking about her. Ik this film flopped, esp bc I think it was one of the first like let’s make an american version of Godzilla films and they noteably redesigned him but idk every behind the scenes pic of this thing is gorgeous to me. I would’ve assumed it’d been tricks with miniatures, it’s been years since I’ve seen the film but no they did just make her and she is huge I can’t get over it.
I was typing an entire post about food issues and why I don’t like wet food, until I remembered that unlike in Dutch, ‘wet food’ has a specific meaning in English. Just straight up deleted everything bc all I could see myself as was
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