Reblogged a-star-that-fell
Source: twitter.com
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“So what can we learn from this study? On the data side, we see that everything is proceeding as planned. Nobody’s paying $50 for a burger at McDonald’s, or $16 for a can of tuna at Safeway. Employers wish their profits were higher, and workers are glad they got a raise, but they wish they made more money. Three years after Seattle started down the road to $15, everything is as it should be. Those apocalyptic claims of destruction and business closures haven’t been proven true. One thing the study didn’t explain was why the sky didn’t fall as promised. Why weren’t workers laid off in droves, or replaced with robots? Why didn’t prices skyrocket? Why does Seattle have more restaurants now than at any point in its history? It’s because those workers who saw a raise now have more money to spend in the city around them. Those restaurant workers are eating in more restaurants. They’re buying more groceries. They’re buying more clothes and cars. That increased consumer demand is creating jobs, and more than paying for the increased minimum wage. The $15 minimum wage established a positive feedback loop that created growth in Seattle by including more people in the economy. In other words, it worked exactly as intended.”
Source: civicskunk.works
Reblogged chronicillnessmemes
Can we dispell with the notion that there are people who don’t want health insurance?
One of the big arguments against the individual mandate (the now-overturned clause of the Affordable Care Act that required everybody to purchase insurance) is that we shouldn’t force people who don’t want health insurance to buy it.
Who doesn’t want health insurance? That is, if you polled the general public and asked them, “In the event of an illness or injury, would you like to pay your medical bills out of pocket, or would you like to have them covered?” is there any human who is going to say that they’d prefer to pay their own way?
Are there people who need to spend their money on more immediately pressing concerns than a safety net that protects them in the event of an illness or injury that hasn’t happened yet? Of course. But to characterize a young, healthy, poor person as someone who “doesn’t want health insurance” is disingenuous. If that health insurance were made available to them for free or very cheap - as it would be in a single-payer system funded by a graduated tax - they would not turn it down. The issue is that the price tag is currently too high.
And removing the individual mandate has only accomplished making it even higher.
Reblogged littlegirlbigmagick
me: let’s do something productive
brain: too stressed, can’t focus
me: ok, then let’s do something enjoyable first
brain: can’t do that either, feeling too guilty for not being productive
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Reblogged mad-dyspunktional
This was my weekend. This is a lot of my weekends tbh.
Website: https://lifeofbria.com/sadfighter/
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Reblogged gaylor-moon
this is a dream, 2018
Reblogged moonlightsdreaming
choxiiart
Long locks and flower petals, its Punzy~
Every “Why my disability didn’t stop me from living” article written can be summarized as having access to resources materially and socially. Which results in a fascinating intersection between ableism and classism, as the resulting inspiration porn - used against disabled folk via the “Why are you more impacted than this person in the article” - essentially boils down to shaming people for not having access to the resources required to mitigate the disability.
strongorcbutch
YYYyyyyyYYYYYUP.
Like why yes, if I had access to better healthcare, better painkillers including medmar, a gym, a car, better nutrition, the ability to move to a location with better air, and not on the top floor of a very large very poorly retrofitted house-apartment, and in general if every financial need wasn’t a fucking disaster in my life, MY DISABILITIES WOULD PROBABLY SEEM SMALLER TOO.
Reblogged spaced-out-enby
things i’m good at: giving myself panic attacks
Reblogged lymefight
thegoodvybe
Source: weheartit.com
Reblogged translesbiantheo
men hate her! local woman is a woman
Reblogged heyatleastitsnotcancer
I’d like to say, as a chronically ill person… I’m not brave. I’m not strong. I’m not an inspiration.
I’m just stubborn as fuck.
Reblogged audscratprophetlilith
“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
Reblogged seananmcguire
Glad to see some news on this is getting traction.
This executive order is a travesty that is going to hurt a lot of people. People will die.
But they’ll be disabled people, so the GOP isn’t going to care.
Source: Washington Post