Meanwhile, the bullies and jerks in school go on to become wealthy grifters.
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The irony is that most positions to help the poor make you poor. Social work pays terribly. Nonprofit salaries are low. They entice young people into volunteer positions when theyβre drowning in student debt and have barely any personal savings. You really make a sacrifice.
This is basically the central concern of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory, though he focused more on the other side of the issue, how the most meaningless jobs tend to be the most compensated.
Help the poor -> Help I'm poor
Which is why I push back when people complain about employees at non-profits making a decent salary.
If you can make 10% more working at a for-profit company, then you are asking people working at non-profit companies to donate 10% of their salary. So unless the person complaining is donating 10% of their salary to charity, they don't really have anything to complain about.... π
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The poorest are those who help. Teachers, nurses, care providers, child care, service workers, retail employees.
If you want to be helpful you're gonna pay for it.
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"the poverty war will be over when I begin to fight, if it took a dime to go around the world I couldn't get out of sight"
Well you sure aint helping yourself
I still try you know. Organize, advise, sometimes join a cookout. We survive together you know.
Help yourself and other poors: join a union and a communist party!
Our unions and parties over here want money to join.
I pay the FNV (a sort of union of unions here in the Netherlands) because they kept taking the government to court because the government wasn't following its own laws... and they kept winning. They don't help my job because I'm in IT and class consciousness hasn't reached there yet, but someday....
The Bolsheviks in 1917 were a dues paying organization! If you're building a serious revolutionary party under capitalism, you're going to need a place to meet, organizational infrastructure, a paper, etc, and all of these things need dues. Check out Lenin's Where To Begin (1905) for a quick read that will help put the task into perspective!
We have nothing to lose but our chains, and a world to win! Workers of the world, unite!!
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I'm not even poor. But by god, it's hard to find hours in the day or money in the bank to do anything that feels material and meaningful.
That's being poor
You can sustain yourself (very comfortably) without having the industrial scale resources to affect your community in the aggregate.
If you don't have time for life, then you're poor. The French would have burned down a hundred cars by now
The US produces 100 cars about every four minutes. So I'd say this is a negligible impact long term.
Also, Macron's France is just Hillary's America. It hasn't done dick shit to curb poverty or resolve the social tension between French Capital and its Labor movement. A great deal of these protests are coming from French fascist pensioners, rioting over the country's immigrant population. Just burning a few dozen cars once a month is not reshaping the French economy in any meaningful capacity.
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why does no one ever mention mutual aid?
we don't always have to use their exploitative slave making system. find small ways to benefit your local communities directly. better yet team up with others who are transparent about the efficient ways they try to accurately address the issues that are harming our people.
Help yourself then, it's not like only others deserve it
If there's anything I've learned on my mental health work (on myself, therapy etc.):
To help others, you must first help yourself.
People ranting over a meme⦠some dude said join a communist party lol
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I was poor in 99 already
Tell me about it... in '99 I could barely afford a snickers bar
I mean I was 5, but still... I'm sure I could've done better if I'd just grinded a little harder
Good so you have experience π
"Lord, I don't even need a billion, I could do a lot of good work with just $100 million. Because it's not about the money for me."
And I can't even help myself as much as I need π₯²
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