musicalchairs.bsky.social
Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
👤 Joined on 21 September 2023
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@musicalchairs.bsky.socialI'm on $434 a week (Supported Living) and had my application for accommodation supplement declined as my rates are "too low".
Show PostTurns out, I had some of the best political discussions of the whole year at today's second-hand craft supplies market. I knew women were really fucking angry about pay equality, about healthcare and education and racism... But the opportunity to talk about it while buying yarn and fabric? 🔥
Show PostTo end up in a society that values the lives of kids with cancer over the size of the Crown deficit, we must replace the system – because we cannot get there from here. /end of rant (for today)
Show PostThe point is, neoliberalism is about concentrating wealth and political power in the hands of a small elite. It works that way by design, and so the shifting of previously secure ways of making a living into a precarious form of debt slavery is the intended outcome of the system
Show PostFirst wave neoliberalism destroyed wage-class jobs: offshoring, union busting, zero-hours contracts, the Employment Contracts Act, wage suppression, monetarism, and all the other machinery of raising unemployment whilst removing security and stability from waged work
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