Reminder that numbers like these are if a corporation is deciding to pass on all costs of raising their wage to a living wage onto a consumer. The correct amount of what it should “cost” you as a consumer for a corporation to raise their wages is $0.
I’d like to see it phrased as the equivalent of, “If Walmart paid its employees a living wage, the family that owns it would have to take an 2% cut to their yearly profits, meaning they’d make only 294 million a year instead of 300 million a year,” just to really drive home how little they would need to pass on the cost of paying their employees a living wage to their consumers.
earlier i reblogged a post about a certain meme format that originated on alt-right platforms slowly finding its way into mainstream meme platforms and fandoms etc, so i just wanted to expand and say that these memes/formats:
originated in alt-right/neo-nazism threads. please stop using them. please stop making alt-right propaganda ~relatable~ and normal by spreading the things that they create and passing it off as good fun.
wanted to add some clarification to this: the first meme did NOT originate from alt-right threads. it is just an old meme and while it originated from 4chan it is not related whatsoever to the alt-right, nor did the original version of the meme. i haven’t seen any alt-right figures use the first meme pretty much ever so the first one is safe.
the 2nd, however, IS, because it uses the tradwife character (aka an idealized version of a white housewife whose goal is to pump out white babies for nazi men).
it was CREATED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RACIST MEMES, which is why it is bad in a different way from say, pepe, which was not originally alt-right but was co-opted for a time before people started reclaiming him. other versions of the 2nd meme include a male counterpart to the tradwife (and if you think he looks like pewdiepie…its because he’s supposed to, since pewdiepie is seen as an idol to the alt-right because of his popularity among young men and occasionally platforming antisemetic creators/the fiverr thing)
it’s important to target the right memes when talking about the alt-right, or else they are able to use misinformation to seem innocuous and use it as a “GOTCHA” for why ANY of these memes are ok, as well as to explain WHY these memes are related to the alt-right, to prevent people from just brushing them off as just memes.
