Tag: capitalism

forsmithsandgiggles:

lewdmangabey:

maybe i’m a goddamn bleeding heart hippie liberal but i’m totally down with paying an extra .50 cents for a thing of fries if the person who makes me those fries doesn’t have to work 3 jobs just to survive.

most studies show that prices would only have to go up by 1 to 3 cents in order to raise employee wages significantly

or, you know, the ceo’s could take pay cuts but that would be so hard for the poor multimillionaires

Conservatives: Let’s go back to the good old times of the 1950s.
1950s: Had 92% income tax for the mega wealthy which allowed for households with a single breadwinner. Had minimum wage high enough to get somebody through college.
Conservatives: No… not that part. The sexism and racism part is the one I like…

dewypetal-to-moribundslut:

ivorytowerblr:

sunshineinmyveins:

dynastylnoire:

jungleminx:

salon:

Just as European sex ed programs are looking to urge more births to combat falling fertility rates, the U.S. might be seeing similar trends in its own birth rate. Not just yet, though. But, according to new numbers from the Census Bureau, more American women of childbearing age are actually childless. Almost half of women between the ages of 15 and 44 didn’t have kids in 2014, with an increase from 46.5 percent in 2012 to 47.6 percent last year. 

Census Bureau finds the highest percentage of childless women of reproductive age since the 1970s

Well that’s what you fucking GET

You killed the economy
Your police keep killing black people
Your colleges over charge per credit hour
Your students have crippling debt
The minimum wage is not a liveable wage
Gentrification has destroyed black neighborhoods and small businesses
Rent is too high
Day care costs more than rent
Food stamps get cut year after year
Health insurance is expensive
Doctor bills are expensive
You had turned men into celebrated misogynists that don’t want to wear condoms or pay for child support or fund abortions

No we don’t want to children in a world that has no problem watching us die and blaming us for it.

FUCKING THIS.

Birthrates tend to fall in countries that have achieved emancipation for women but do not continue to support women afterwards. Basically, you’re told “you can have a career or you can have kids, not both” and so a lot of women go “fuck it”. Also, consider that if women are *choosing* not to have kids, it’s for a reason. All of the reasons stated above are absolutely correct.

If you want people to have kids, make it seem like a joy and not a burden. Make the world the kind of place you want to bring children into instead of protecting them from it by not even having them. Make sure every child that is born is supported. When parents can live without fearing for their children, there will be more of them.

I think it’s a good thing… we’re destroying the bloody planet with our ridiculous population rate and consumption of resources. It’s time to slow the fuck down.

“Don’t you know communism has killed millions?!”

post-teenager:

southern-feminism:

DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM:

  • Native American Genocide, 1500s-1900s (direct killings and death from plagues; North, Central, and South Americas combined): 100 MILLION [x]
  • Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500s-1900s (princessbuggie helped with this one): 4 MILLION [x]
  • September Massacres, France, 1792: 1,200 [x]
  • Famines in British India, 1837-1900: at least 165 MILLION [x]
  • Potato Famine/Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852 (an anon helped with this one): 1 MILLION [x]
  • Cholera Outbreak, Industrial London, 1849: 15,000 [x]
  • United States Civil War, 1861-1865: at least 600,000 [x]
  • Building First Transcontinental Railroad, United States, 1863-1869 (princessbuggie helped with this one): at least 1,200 [x]
  • Belgian Occupation of the Congo, 1886-1908: 10 MILLION [x]
  • Spanish-American War, 1898: 17,135 [x]
  • United States 20th Century Coal Mining Industry: 100,000 [x]
  • Courriéres Mine Disaster, France, 1906: 1,549 [x]
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 (vivianvivisection helped with this one): 146 [x]
  • World War I, 1914-1918: 16 MILLION [x]
  • Building the Hoover Damn, United States, 1922-1936: 112 [x]
  • Shanghai Massacre of 1927: at least 5,000 presumed dead [x]
  • United States Intervention in Latin America, 1929-1987 (progressivefem helped with this one): 6 MILLION [x]
  • The White Terror, Spain, 1936-1975: at least 100,000 [x]
  • World War II, 1939-1945: at least 60 MILLION [x]
  • Benxihu Colliery Explosion, China, 1942: 1,549 [x]
  • Burma Railway, Thailand-Burma, 1943-1947: 106,000 [x]
  • Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945: at least 245,000 [x]
  • Bodo League Massacre, Korea, 1950: at least 100,000 [x]
  • Vietnam War, 1955-1975: 2.3 MILLION [x] [x]
  • Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996 (an anon helped with this one): 200,000 [x]
  • US Intervention in the Congo, 1964: 1,000 [x]
  • Indonesian Anti-Communist Purge, 1965-1966: at least 500,000 [x]
  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1965-2013: 21,500 [x], 1,000 more Palestinians have been killed in 2014.
  • Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988: at least 315,000 [x]
  • Bhopal Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, 1984: 16,000+ [x]
  • United States Railroad Workers Killed on the Job, 1993-2002 (princessbuggie  helped with this one): 1,221 [x]
  • Rwandan Genocide, 1994: 1 MILLION [x]
  • United States Deaths Attributed to Cigarette Smoking, 2000-2004: ~1.7 MILLION [x]
  • War in Afghanistan, 2001-present: 57,457 [x]
  • Darfur Genocide, 2003-present: 10,000 [x]
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011: 55,034 [x]
  • Mexican Drug War, 2006-present: at least 100,000 [x]
  • United States Workers Killed on the Job in 2012, as reported by OSHA: 4,628 [x]
  • Hunger (un-feuilly-de-papier helped with this one): 21,000 per day [x], 16,000 of them children [x], 3,000 of them children specifically in India [x].
  • Worldwide Occupational Deaths: 6,000 per day [x]
  • Poor shelter, polluted water, inadequate sanitation, often from homelessness (sideeffectsincludenausea helped with this one): 50,000 per day [x]
  • Occupational Asbestos Exposure: 107,000 per year [x]
  • International Sex Trafficking: 30,000 per year [x]

“Communist Death Toll,” according to The Black Book of Communism: 94 million

Capitalism Death Toll: 369 million (369,790,731), according only to the statistics I could get sources for. This number doesn’t even scratch the surface.

But, guess what? Tomorrow, we know for sure that capitalism will kill at least 77,000 more people.

77,000.