I used to be blond when I was younger but I’m not anymore because I grew the fuck up.
You know what I love?
Reminding people that the majority of wage theft is committed by “small, local” businesses and that their idealizing of small businesses is stupid
All my worst bosses have been small business owners — the problem isn’t the size of the business, it’s that the relationship is exploitative. When someone decides to be a capitalist, making money through their investments rather than through their labour, their position relative to changes in the city becomes fundamentally different. Gentrification, as an example: when rents go up, it means they make more money (rather than lose their home); when prices go up and rich people move in, it means a chance to sell luxury goods (while we work for minimum wage); when more police and surveillance come in, it secures your investment (while we get harassed and pushed out). They are getting rich because our lives are getting worse.- Ungovernables and Yuppie Tears: A Saturday Night on Locke Street
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“I feel I have wasted my life … and know far too little for a woman of twenty-seven years … I feel a dizzying pressure under my skin … I want to make a hole in everything and penetrate it deep. I want to reach the heart of the earth. My love lies in there, a place where seedlings turn green and roots meet one another and creation continues even in disintegration. I think it has always been this way—in birth and then in death. I think my body is a temporary form. I want to reach its essence. I want to hang my heart like a ripe fruit on every branch of every tree.”— Forugh Farrokhzad, in a letter to to Ebrahim Golestān, Behnam Bavandpour, ed., Majmooeh āssāreh Forugh Farrokhzad (Nima Press, 2002).
A lot of things every day…
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