This is me. Trump took my job. I don’t have time to help the world because nobody will help me.
If you are still unemployed., getting involved in mutual aid can actually be a great thing to do with your time. I started a Really Really Free Market during a tough time in my life and it has given me way more back than what I’ve invested into in terms of time energy and resources.
i started busking. don’t make much, but make enough.
I think in other countries people in your situation they become “insurgents” or something like that. I think that’s what they want to become of their citizens though so they grow from some other political move.
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Starving people in Palestine run at Israeli tanks with salvaged explosives they built from Israeli bombs while wearing flipflops.
I find it really puts things in perspective when you look at real resistance in the real world.
That’s why unions are essential. They can funnel the grievances of the working class towards actual improvements and force the powerful to act. They demonstrate, that a better life is possible when we stand together!
The problem is they don’t or can’t go far enough. Their end goal should be to take over the company and make it into a worker-owned co-op.
Should it? Wouldn’t that just make them different/better bosses?
Unions can choose their own goal and politics and decide them through a democratic process. Their strength depends on membership and readiness of the workers to strike, then they can do anything.
So much union goals seemed impossible until they were achieved and became the new norm.
No, because the point is they wouldn’t be bosses, nobody would be bosses, that’s the point of a worker owned co-op:
Nobody is a boss, they’re all equally responsible and have the same power as everybody else who works there.
Like unions, they collectively/democratically decide on things, they make decisions that don’t just benefit a few at the top but all who work there and for the long-term survival of the company, not just the short term benefit of a few.
The ordering of the character chances in each row and it bothers me. In makes it hard to connect the struggles to the effects they have on their job choices and political stance. See for example the one with medical bills. I’d expect to be able to read a single column top to bottom. And for one of the two characters that doesn’t change their place from first row to second row, it makes no sense the young person with large student debt would work for no money. Swapping the first and second characters in the second row would make more sense.
This is just my pedantry. The point made in the graphic is very valid, I just found it a bit difficult to read.
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Cool. So glad you’re shitting on us. Good job, you fucking piece of shit. You did it. Fuck you.
Maybe get angry at those who put you in this situation rather than at those pointing out the situation?
Maybe you’re deflecting the blame so you don’t have to feel like you’re being an asshole?
P.S. Please do enlighten me. Who exactly are “those” who put me and everyone else in this situation? You trolls are such trash.
P.S. Please do enlighten me. Who exactly are “those” who put me and everyone else in this situation?
It’s definitely a beast with many heads.
Loosely, the people that extract wealth from the masses without lifting a finger, and hoarding said wealth, are likely the epicenter of it all. The neoliberal world order and capitalism isn’t the work of an individual or a single group, but there definitely are those that pull the strings - the very wealthy, their lackeys, the educational institutions they have shaped, the media organizations they own and influence, and the governments that they have co-opted.
Some of the strings being pulled are fear, hate, survival, comfort, sycophancy, subservience, greed, competition, polarization, feelings of superiority, and dominance. We are not only exploited through our labor, but also through our psyche and how our societies are structured.
The answer is to stop falling into negativity and to focus on solutions. Pointing the finger and playing the blame game has no winners.
Some of the strings being pulled are fear, hate, survival, comfort, sycophancy, subservience, greed, competition, polarization, feelings of superiority, and dominance. We are not only exploited through our labor, but also through our psyche and how our societies are structured.
ding ding ding! You hit the mark. You might enjoy The Age of Surveillance Capitalism if you haven’t read it already.
The new surveillance capitalist market is about human emotions and attention, not goods or services. At a certain point money is useless, and everything becomes about influence
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.
Deflecting the blame? How is any of it my fault?
I understand the meme makes you angry. Rightfully so. But I am not your enemy in any way
Edit to answer yours: your government?? The oppressive systems and their history are plain to see, I’m not talking about the lizard people
Are you a rich company owner exploiting people for your own luxury? Or a crooked politician? Otherwise I don’t think this is shitting on you.
To say it clearly: The exploited person is not to blame. This image does not blame the tired worker. This image points out that the desperate worker is the victim.
Predictably 50% of them are irreverent, readers digest shit or super duper 'merica. This is the internet in 2025 not a print magazine for 1995.
Do we have a source? All I can tell it is from Australia before the Libs (the conservatives, for international readers) changed the name of Newstart to “Job Seeker”.
They also renamed the Department of Human Services to Services Australia.
Every time they’re in power, they’re trying to remove all the welfare we’ve built up. They just can’t because we love it.
If it weren’t for Centrelink, I probably wouldn’t have finished university, and I probably wouldn’t be an engineer now.
Fuck austerity. And long may the LNP (the conservative coalition) be in complete shambles, ans hopefully push the Labor party back to its more left wing roots.
I don’t have a source, I’m afraid. I screenshot this off Tumblr and didn’t save the original link, but I know that it was a repost and that this image had been circulating for quite a while.
