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Every time I crochet something cute there’s inevitably the comment “You could sell these!” How about you could let me have just one corner of my life free of the incessant demand to produce and commodify.
I started playing the harp a few months ago for my own personal interests and I keep getting questions like “So do you want to play weddings and stuff?”. Um, no, I just want to play a fucking harp. Why does everything I do with my time have to be in pursuit of money?
I remember being in college and I wanted to create some sort of argument about substance abuse - particularly alcohol as it related to mental illness. The core of the argument escapes me now. I was absolutely shocked that the numbers that the government provided were in terms of dollars lost as a function of time taken off of work to seek treatment times salary. “But people do things other than work!” I thought. “What about the psychological damage? The relationships town apart? The personal journey?” I didn’t think this precisely, but I didn’t have a conception of politics as a fundamentally material matter and I wanted some kind of acknowledgement of alienation causing people to use. What I got was pity for business owners. This wasn’t a breaking point for me, but it nudged me toward being sympathetic to leftist arguments.
I don’t think it is. A substantial majority of people dislike the prohibition of marijuana, but the private prison industry and the cops like it. 3 guesses which group has more say in politics (protip: the more liberal wing has a fucking cop as a VP candidate)
A substantial majority of people dislike the prohibition of marijuana, but the private prison industry and the cops like it.
But look at where marijuana policy is today vs. 25 years ago, or even 10 years ago. And none of that progress is getting rolled back anytime soon. It’s one of the few honestly bright spots in politics.
Fun fact, US government values a single human life at $10 million in analysis. They must be getting a fucking steal in the periphery.
