4th of july sure is wild bc on one hand my country’s history is built on the genocide of indigenous people, slavery that’s traumatized an entire race, Systematic Racism™️, religious freedom (but only if you’re christian!), and like, yknow, power imbalances throughout and a corrupt government that is just as fucked up as you’d think it is, but hey! at least today we can barbecue right?
throw a barbecue and use the american flag as kindling
Working off of the labor of others, only there because of being born into capital and pre-existing familial or business relations? Yep
And people still try to defend this shit with ‘Well they MUST work REALLY HARD to earn THAT kind of money!!!’
I assure you they don’t. I assure you the people earning the least money are working the most. I don’t see CEO’s doing 60 hour weeks just to keep food on the table. They don’t do that, because they don’t have to, because they get paid so much they aren’t desperate enough to have to.
If you follow me, reblog this. It is an important piece of data. I would love to see one for the annual tax expenditure of minimum wage versus CEO’s as a proportion of their annual income.
This is the aggregation of labor. This is what it looks like. It has happened before. It will likely happen again unless it is changed.
I like how they added “and the world” because it’s true, the rich are bastards everywhere.
