"Do you believe in life after work"

Spotted in Lucca, Italy

“No Loyalty to the Bosses.

No Loyalty to the Institution”

as someone who has been chronically homeless for 9 years due to severe disability, the way housing is managed in america is just a joke. it's all about the profits for the landlord, nothing else matters. credit checks are a gate to keep out poor people. deposits are a gate to keep out poor people. you wanna apply for a low-income housing program? you HAVE to have a "severe" disability diagnosis and proof that you're too disabled to afford or apply for "normal" housing. this is a gate to keep out poor people.

people in positions to help house homeless people don't care because they're housed. there's no sense of urgency. they don't have to think about what it's like to go without a roof over their head. they get paid tens of dollars an hour to sit there and scoff at all of the "lazy poor and disabled people who should just get jobs and stop whining and expecting to have things handed to them." they get paid to ignore emails and take 2 hour long lunches to forget about how hard and scary the world really is.

how the FUCK are you supposed to work when you don't have a place to sleep at night, shower, or eat? come the fuck on. use your goddamn brain. this system is built off of abuse, lying and torture. nobody earns an "honest" day's pay, none of this is "honest" work. it's all built off of the backs of lying and stealing from someone who needs it more. jobs aren't given to the person who's the most qualified- they're given to the person who lied the most to make themselves sound good during the interview. jobs are given to people who are good at interviews, NOT people who are GOOD at what they do.

i don't know how to tell you that when the average person isn't making enough to eat, fuel their car or pay for their phone, they also can't afford the roof over their head. disabled people and low-income people are struggling even worse with this. i don't know how to tell people that you should care about this.

we are literally all the same species. we are all humans. you cannot look down on disabled, poor and addicted people because we're "scum" and "less than human". we're not. that's a lie you're being fed by capitalism to feel better about yourself so you'll keep blindly working. wake up. this is not how humans behave. you're being brainwashed. everyone needs a stable home. EVERYONE. especially if you want them to contribute to your stupid money machine.

capitalism makes no fucking sense. give people homes or get the fuck out of our way, because we're about to just start taking them. this is unsustainable. this is unliveable. this system doesn't fucking work. a system that leaves its people to starve and die while apartments, homes, condos, and hotel rooms stay empty and collect dust doesn't work. none of this shit works. fuck this fascist system. none of us are free.

Me when it's sunny: I should not be made to work in these conditions, I should be out enjoying the world and maybe having a little treat

Me when it's rainy: I should not be made to work in these conditions, I should be tucked up cosy with a book and maybe having a little treat

You're the daughter of an actual, real life Baron, your family own Coutts, the bank for super rich people, I don't think you get to tell anyone about hard work!

"I refuse to work my life away"

Seen in Copenhagen

It's genuinely terrifying to me how many people (especially U.S Americans) fully believe that if you don't work you deserve to be homeless. You deserve to die.

They will look you dead in the eyes and tell you that yes, they believe you have to earn the right to live. You have to be considered useful enough to be deserving of basic human rights.

The propaganda and brainwashing runs deep and it is killing people.

we are so anti-fun in capitalism. fun isn't allowed because joy and stimulation create serotonin and dopamine and that would just be terrible because you can't be a crushingly depressed drone who can't do anything but work. not even sleep, just work. it would be a shame if you chose to chase joy and happiness and fun despite this. it would be a real shame, for the CEOs and billionaires who steal your hard earned money for themselves. a pity, really.

seriously, though, smarmy tone aside: chase fun like your life depends on it, because it does. happiness is a human right. kids and adults alike need to play. play isn't just for children: adults require leisure and happiness, too. happiness should not be reserved for any age group. fun isn't even optional, it's required in order to keep your mental health in check. we're depressed as a culture because all we do is work and leave no time for play. living is meant for chasing and fighting for what brings you joy. play. laugh. have fun. spite those who want you to be a miserable worker drone who can't spare a thought beyond work work work.

fight like hell for happiness.

Work is a death cult. A miserable excuse for purpose. Two jobs can't even support one person and in our economy, it's no use to work harder and dedicate your life to making some rich bastard more money.

  At the end of their life, the worker will look at what their work truly did. They spent years of their life in a tiny cubicle or in a depressing box of concrete. It kept them in subservience to a boss who couldn't care less for them. As he begs his employees to get food stamps, he's getting a new yacht for his daughter.

As more people grew poor, they obedient worker said, "Just work harder and get more money". As more people were being watched like rodents in a cage, the obedient worker said, "Don't do anything wrong and you'll be fine."

But now that every little act of resistance, unionizing, protesting, and disobedience is a criminal act, they find themselves suffering the consequences of obedience.

Obedience is for suckers. It's the easy road only available for a certain select few people in the long term because most people will have to disobey at some point or another.