althought I wanted to finish these while it was winter , it’s still snowing here so here, some warmly dressed folks!
So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
You could buy every expensive thing in the world 5 times over and still have millions of dollars. Billionaires shouldn’t exist when most of their employees are barely living.
teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults
I am a preschool teacher.
This is my “alone zone.”
At any time of the day, if my kids are feeling stressed, they can go here to cool down. There’s stress toys, silly putty, bubbles, sensory bottles…there’s books and headphones to block out the loud noises.
The only thing they have to do is “check in” by putting their picture on which emotion they’re feeling so I know how I can help them when they’re ready.
Kids. Need. Space.
Kids. Need. Coping. Mechanisms.
Not. Time-outs.
And the sooner we as adults teach them that, the better off they’ll be as they grow.
Tamaki Suou: So… you’re a girl?
Haruhi Fujioka: Biologically speaking, yeah.
Haruhi Fujioka: Listen, Senpai, I don’t really care whether you guys recognize me as a boy or a girl. In my opinion it’s more important for a person to be recognized for who they are rather than for what sex they are.
bitch i got adhd lmao
Carbon dioxide has only one atom more than carbon monoxide just in case you think breathing is harmless
These are kind of silly arguments. Adderall really is similar to meth, in both composition and effect. A lot of posts like “these chemicals look similar, they must be the same” are bullshit, but in this case they’re not far off. They’re both amphetamines.
The most important difference between Adderall and meth isn’t chemical, but how they’re taken. If you took controlled amounts of slow-release methamphetamine under medical supervision, it would be a safe and effective treatment for ADHD. In fact, it is used that way. Conversely, if you smoked unrestricted amounts of crudely homemade Adderall all day long, it would be quite likely to ruin your life.
Honestly, this is the case for most drugs of abuse. Heroin is given as a painkiller in some countries under the name diamorphine. Cocaine is used as an anesthetic for ENT procedures. What makes these chemicals dangerous is not their inherent composition but their effects when abused. Adderall, like many other drugs, has a potential for abuse but also a potential to do good, and the difference between the two uses is more about the user and their support system than the chemistry.
Cosigned by a chemist.
Hayley Kiyoko and Brendon Urie with their flags while singing Girls/Girls/Boys is so iconic!
The raw gay energy in this photo is enough to power an entire country
“October storms against our windows. You cleared autumn’s path. You turned the seas night-dark.”
— Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from Selected Poems; “To My Son,”
This is weirdly cute and enchanting
this is gonna be in my halloween playlist