I need to sleep I can’t get no sleep
♫ It’s true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through
being dealers every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man, it’s hard to hold the hand of anyone
who’s reaching for the sky just to surrender ♪
(originally by Leonard Cohen, of course)
Cobb: “I’ve come back for you… to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.”
Trust me memes, you do?
Can’t escape capitalism.
♪ Hinckley couldn’t shoot straight, hit a guy in the forehead ♪ :-(
I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.
EDIT: Found a relevant Marx quote in Grundrisse:
Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth. Hence it diminishes labour time in the necessary form so as to increase it in the superfluous form; hence posits the superfluous in growing measure as a condition – question of life or death – for the necessary.
See also Marcuse, 1969:
The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would […] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.
When I was little, I asked my parents why they don’t smoke and they just laughed. I didn’t understand why. Because 100% of the other adults I knew were smokers.
Join some Whatsapp group that piques your interest and meet with them IRL. I wouldn’t have thought that drinking beer and shooting the shit with total strangers could be so much fun, but here we are.
Geez, that reminds me of a former colleague that, when asked for “the numbers,” would just send screenshots of tables in the ERP system instead of exporting them to a spreadsheet. What’s even worse, usually a lot of values were plain wrong, on one occasion more than half of them.
A sixpack a day keeps the anal away.
Blame it on the rain.
Thanks for this. I could watch this channel all day long.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face by a gorilla.