You’re right we should make the whole economy oriented around social well being instead of profit and factor in and direct surplus for things like healthcare and housing. Hospitals and drug companies shouldn’t be privately owned either :) public ownership all around! good talk

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they water down every hero - invert their entire message if possible, from Jesus to MLK to John Brown they have to convince their people that standing for nothing - and not standing at all - is the ideal human behavior

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amid the perpetual attempts of our culture to define the term "Lynchian", David Foster Wallace once suggested "a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter"

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One time I got hired for a job and didn’t realize that it involved waking up at 3 am to drive an hour to take a bus to another job site 2 hours away so I just never showed up and a week later they sent me a text saying they were going to assume I resigned.

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I worked at a Spirit Halloween for about a week in college, after which I was let go and given an envelope of cash in lieu of a paycheck

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