@lety@doesstuff.social My old feet met some younger feet?
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@wolf @benroyce @Mastodon @palestine The American one, the one that's been allies with Israel through 14 presidential administrations, and is too politically brittle to change course.
Carter lost by a landslide because of stance "too soft" on Iran.
Our choice is to fight the brittleness. Or not.
Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled.
@theotherverion Right, but despite decades of failed and emotionally traumatic attempts at getting him employed, and my mother never having been employed outside the home, now that they're both past retirement age, who's responsible to absorb the cost of their utilities, rent, food, and medical care? Or do we let them rot out in a grassy field somewhere?
I'm not proposing a solution, I'm indicating that employment is frequently not one.
Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled.
@theotherverion My mom wouldn't have a pension. She was effectively a clergyman's wife full time, who has and is still spending spent quite a bit of time caring for my disabled brother, who hasn't ever been properly "gainfully employed" despite desperate efforts that have now come out in the wash as traumatic, not just to my brother.
The model works for babies, too. The question is: who pays (etc.) the care workers?
Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled.
@theotherverion @rimu I'll be sure to tell my 90-year-old mom (who's probably got at least 8 years left), to hurry up and get off her ass.
The knot in the right-wing angle is the belief that the church, the family, or other philanthropy will meet the perpetual need. The harsh reality is that there are and always will be people who don't and won't ever have what it takes to provide "enough value," as defined by people with money, to a free market.
@lety@doesstuff.social Her feet are turned toward the camera/viewer, making the image not about the mastodons, or her, but about the gaze, about who exists in this moment for whom.
This one's short, and very enlightening, and old standby in college art classes: https://archive.org/details/WaysOfSeeingByJohnBerger
But lord knows you don't need to read a whole book to try to understand a snarky comment... that really should have been somehow directed at the Asian girl ads I've been getting on YouTube lately.