#class system
Text
let that sink in....
#capitalist hell#systemic inequality#billionaires#wealth gap#wealth inequality#eat the rich#capitalist system#capitalism#anti capitalism#banksters#class divide#class system#awareness#class awareness#change the system
17K notes
·
View notes
Text
"us versus them" is the biggest trap we invented for ourselves
1forall0allfor1
#duality#polarization#conflict#war#politics#economics#class system#caste system#destructive#immaturity#unconscious#unaware#tribalism#nations#society#cultures#civilization#humanity#cooperation#evolution
45 notes
·
View notes
Photo
(via Writing Diversity: Creating Working Class and Underclass Characters)
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Also I cannot express how much I love job systems in games, does anyone know any good games with versatile job systems? The most I know is Final Fantasy, Octopath Traveler, Fantasy Life and I suppose Fire Emblem
Oh and I guess Miitopia as well
#the ideal job system I want would be#a diverse group of jobs#and also you can evolve those jobs into higher classes#and you can have branching paths for jobs#and/or the character can have a secondary class alongside their first one which gives them both#it’s probably a one or the other situation#but still#actually I don’t think I explained myself well#I don’t know how to explain I’d just like recommendations for games with job systems#please#I love them so much#video games#job system#class system#questions#random stuff
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
Remembering British film director, Michael Apted, who passed away January 7th, 2021, aged 79.
According to his obituary in The Guardian,
"He was a director who moved with ease between socially conscious documentaries and feature films with a special focus on female achievement".
His career began as a trainee at Granada Television, Manchester, where as a researcher he worked on the first of the ground-breaking documentary series, Seven Up, in 1964, originally conceived as a one-off episode as part of the World in Action programme. He also directed episodes of Coronation Street (he described Violet Carson and Pat Phoenix as 'the biggest divas in Britain'), and The Lovers, with Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox, along with other television plays and programmes.
In Hollywood, he directed a number of acclaimed, diverse and successful movies, including Coal Miner’s Daughter (seven Oscar nominations with Cissy Spacek winning Best Actress), Gorky Park, Gorillas in the Mist, one James Bond (The World is not Enough), and Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
He continued to steer the ‘Up’ documentary series each seven years, which checked in on the fate of a number of British children from different classes and backgrounds, from the age of seven. The most recent, 63 Up, screened in 2019. He said, "The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society. The class system needed a kick up the backside." He described the series as the most important thing he had ever done.
According to The Guardian;
"...Though the Up films were internationally acclaimed, winning Apted the coveted Peabody award in 2012, he mourned their skewed portrait of women. "The change that’s gone around with women in the workplace and women’s place in society is the most significant socio-political event in contemporary culture," he said in 1995. "I missed it. I only had four women out of the 14 and all four of them settled into domestic life very quickly"... In his good-natured way he prodded and challenged the trio of working-class women in the show, who gave as good as they got..."
He intended to continue the 'Up' Series for as long as he was able, and 70 Up was proposed for 2026.
In 1995, Michael Apted appeared on a documentary by fellow director Stephen Frears, along with Alan Parker, A Personal History of British Cinema. He was typically forthright, did not seem to think particularly highly of David Lean's epics including Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, and opined that Ken Loach's Kes was the best British film since the war.
Perhaps fittingly, 63 Up was Michael Apted's final screen credit.
(Sources include IMDb, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the Stephen Frears documentary A Personal History of British Cinema)
#michael apted#british cinema#british television#coronation street#granada television#class system#social history#working class history#up series
12 notes
·
View notes
Text
Duppy Echoes on Telemarketing
I am trying to write more so please forgive me for any grammatical or clerical errors.......
I will start this by saying, I am not reviewing this yet but whatever you do watch this. Secondly sorry for the image it is a bad screen grab from my phone sadly.
When I graduated i was desperately looking for work, and generally the places that where hiring where telemarketing type institutions. A lot of them where straight up con jobs, just like the institution at the heart of the aforementioned documentary. The company CDG, works by soliciting donations, from people on behalf of Police organizations. The people, the work environment and actual work remind of places a lot of down on his or her luck college grads find themselves working for a few years. Or the only option for a lot of people with criminal records, little to no education or experience. Many Americans are slaving away in some cold cubicle warehouse doing work similar to the stuff you see in this show. For context I graduated with a graduate degree to a fairly shaky market, with a degree in Non Profit management, and on every job board, Linkedin post the only people who ever responded where these weird shady murky corporations. Corporations whose business models never made any logical sense. It was either that or these save the world campaign groups that had you working for nothing at all, standing around passing flyers and screaming slogans. It was at this time that I was depressed but very intrigued at the nature of the job market and how it is full of these strange traps that coerce people into spending their lives doing things they clearly deem immoral.
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
the hardest part about this very moment is that we are so lost, no matter who we are or what any of our statuses in society today are. the wealthiest are so far detached from society that they could not comprehend the struggles of the average person, no matter how hard they tried. the rich strive to be the wealthiest, and they consume and overtake and they help funnel more and more into the pockets of their friends and those above them. the middle class barely exists as we once knew it. the poor are suffering even more than ever before and they are trying their best to make ends meet, find a new job, a better home where they don’t have to spend their entire month’s worth of paychecks on rent, and trying to feed themselves and their families. the impoverished are pushed so far down the barrel, and their screams are more muffled than ever. we’re all sardines in a tin can, trying to reach our way out so we can go back to the ocean and avoid being eaten. but it’s too late.
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Subjugation
View On WordPress
#aggression#class system#consequences#dissension#division#Malak Kalmoni Chehab#perfectly flawed#poetry book#poetry reading#postcolonialism#subjugation#violence
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
It's kind of refreshing to go back to the blunt honesty of 1800s slumlords and plantation owners, before all the rationalizations and obfuscations of liberal capitalism.
The whole idea of people being inherently lazy comes from them seeing that if people weren't working for them on their mines or farms or factories they were subsistence gardening and hunting.
"How dare those ingrates want to provide for themselves and be left alone instead of producing bulk goods to stimulate the economy! How can they see all these resources out there and not want to exploit them to depletion? Really, we need serfdom/slavery, these brainless animals need to be taught discipline."
1 note
·
View note
Text
whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property
#I also wonder if this is like a middle class expression of a desire to shore up other property rights eg homeownership#like homeownership is a foundation base for the nuclear family. property rights allow you to own the resource#that produces the family and allows it to be ‘private’#so like children are another frontier of this property relationship#anyway. bad time to be a trans person lol#& all the actual legitimate issues w/ parental rights ie indigenous genocide forced sterilisation mass incarceration the foster system etc#are not even remotely concerns for these people because well. they’re fash lol
19K notes
·
View notes
Text
In spite of the invitation to call him by his Christian name . . . an age-old inhibition, derived no doubt from class-distinction, checked it on Fred's tongue.
L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room
#left unsaid#class barriers#class system#intimacy#quotes#lit#words#excerpts#quote#literature#relationship dynamics#l.p. hartley#the harness room
0 notes
Text
I saw this on FB today and I wanna try and express something about it. Like, you know the curbcutter effect? Where when curbcuts are put in it benefits everyone (bicyclists, people with baby strollers etc) and not just disabled people?
There is also whatever the opposite of the curbcutter effect is. And this is that.
This isn't just anti-adhd/autism propaganda... this is anti-child propaganda.
Kids have developmentally appropriate ways that they need to move their bodies and express themselves and sitting perfectly still staring straight ahead is not natural or good for ANY CHILD.
Don't get me wrong, I was punished unduly as a kid for being neurodivergent (and other types of kid will ALSO be punished unduly for it... Black kids come to mind) and thus UNABLE to perform this -- but even the kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED WELL by it. They don't benefit from it.
This is bad for everyone.
The idea that bc some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don't hurt them... is a dangerous idea. Compliance isn't thriving. Expectation of compliance isn't fair treatment.
#theres a lot of things lately that make me think of this where#people will act like theres this class of people not harmed by something#(laws undermining bodily autonomy come to mind!!!!!)#and its like -- no. the consequences will be worse for some people#but no one is ultimately served by the erosion of bodily autonomy like there is not a class of people who benefit from that#same with lack of right to privacy#there isnt a DEMOGRAPHIC of people who benefit from certain things#there are systems that do. and there may be a handful of individuals who benefit partially or FOR NOW#until those systems are turned against them#i think its important to remind people in certain privileged demographics that like#certain things do benefit them#and others DON'T#you may suffer less statistically but it doesnt benefit you!#its BAD SOCIETALLY.
45K notes
·
View notes
Text
"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.
But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.
#simon says#i love learning so much and I hate the USA's college debt system#once they make that shit free I will be unstoppable#this topic sprung up because I had the idea that im very academic and annoyingly analytical that I might as well get a degree in it#because without a degree you just seem like an autistic asshole#but with a degree? then you look like a CREDIBLE autistic asshole#don't worry I will still learn but I still want that funky piece of paper to tell everyone I learnt it#also there's some things that are VERY difficult to learn#like I would love to persue this topic further but unfortunately I would need help with that#also before you say 'try taking [blank] classes instead! it's less expensive than a degree!' im broke#my only learning resource is the library sorry about that#also this is not the post to give me unwarranted financial advice#finances are one of the topics I DO NOT care about and I WILL NOT listen to a word you say
17K notes
·
View notes
Text
#the sun newspaper#rupert murdoch#bastards#shit#tabloid crap#the English are shit#I hate the uk#snobs#class system
0 notes
Text
All hail the landlord king
“Upon taking the throne, Charles became the largest individual landowner in Britain, presiding over around 700,000 acres of various types of land together worth an estimated £5bn. The king’s property empire doesn’t just include palaces like Buckingham (£3.9bn), Hampton Court (£960m) Kensington (£500m) and Balmoral (£95m); it extends all the way to business parks and even small rented cottages. Of the top ten most valuable residential homes, the monarch owns six.
“Residential homes are not the only valuable buildings in his portfolio. He also owns the Tower of London (visited by 2m tourists last year), which is worth around £880m; in addition, the monarch earns £28m per year from estates overseen by the Duchy of Lancaster. Overall, Charles’ array of homes, historic landmarks and tourist attractions are collectively worth £20bn ...
“The king owns 17m sq feet of retail and office space, including 10m sq feet in London alone. This includes seventeen retail parks, all of Regent’s Street and multiple shopping centres. The businesses that rent property from the Crown include 7 McDonald’s franchises, 13 Next stores, 10 Marks & Spencer supermarkets and 6 Primarks. Within Greater London, the monarchy owns more commercial real estate than almost anybody else – only the Canary Wharf Group owns more.
“Notably, the monarchy’s control of Regent’s Street in London is more than simply passive renting; the Crown Estate actively dictates which shops are allowed to operate there. Charity shops, travel agencies and cafes are among the businesses effectively banned from renting on Regent’s Street.”
#king charles#the king#charles#british monarchy#monarchy#royal family#royals#royal palaces#landlords#renting#neofeudalism#wealth hoarding#inequality#class system#capitalism#london#uk
1 note
·
View note
Text
Hierarchy & Class - Pixiula Ecology & Sociology
Hierarchy Structure
For Pixiula Class is determent by a mix of ones own intelligence, ability to form connection and network, skills, creativity, and wealth. when it come to the role of leader Pixiula tend to have two co-rules witch are often a pair of twins, with each one getting there own title and having to deal with certain aspects of ruling.
The Pixiula Hierarchy is generally set up in the following list: Monarchy > Oracles > Court-royals + Nobility + High Priests > Court-nobles + Priests + Scribes > Artisans + Merchants + Performers + Worriers > Servants + Farmers + Hunters
- hierarchy diagram to be added -
The Monarchy
Pixiula hierarchy structure generally includes a pair of rulers at the top usually given the titles: Nicnevan & Elphane, though it is typically not a absolute monarchy but is in fact a constitutional one. the Monarchy decisions can be overruled and they can even be removed from power: by ether the Oracles if the majority of them chose to or if most people of the domain call for an election.
The Monarchy is often not hereditary as it is more based on nominations and so technically anyone can become the next Monarch but usually the Nominations are ether: members of the current royal family / Court-royals, Nobility or even Court-Nobles.
The Monarchy tends to change in a few ways: death, retirement or voted out via election, if the monarchy is alive when they lose there power and title they can leave a nomination for the next Monarchy but they are not allowed to actively talk and partake in the meeting about the nominations thought they may listen in.
As the Monarchy is a set of twins when one is replaced the other must be as well, thought when it comes to the new Monarchy only one twin need to be nominated but both are often discuses when the choosing of the next monarchy is in prostration.
The nominations for the Monarchy are often done by the Oracles, and a collation of random picked people from all class levels, in witch they will hold a large meeting to discusses and pick who will be ruling next, these discussions can sometime last several days.
The Nicnevan & The Elphane
The Nicnevan and The Elphane are the titles for the current ruling twins Monarchs of a particular domain, thought they both hold a lot of power they perform different roles and govern different parts of the domain and it's society.
The Nicnevan's Role includes: Intra / Local Domain issues, Privet issues, restricted events and celebrations (naming ceremonies, coming of age ceremonies, ect), civil unrest, protests, laws & law changes
The Ephane's Role includes: Inter / Cross Domain issues, Public issues, public events and celebrations (festivals, marriages, ect), trade agreements, treaties and cross domain wars.
Upper Class
Oracles - Oracles are those who have been special chosen by the Deities, a Oracles job includes: cleansing, blessings, curse braking, leading rituals, and relaying or interpreting divine messages.
Court-royals - the partners of the current Nicnevan & Elphane + the immediate family of partners of the current Nicnevan & Elphane + select Nobles and there immediate family.
Nobility - non-immediate Family of Monarchy & Court-Royals + family of Oracles + select high class and/or rich families (including notable Court-nobles, Scribes & Artisans)
High Priests - High Priests are those who used to be Priests who have been recognized for there skills and spirituality, with there jobs being to documentation of religious history, poems, songs, and Oracles visions. High Priests also ether work as a spiritual aid for other or as a personal aid to a Oracles.
Middle Class
Court-nobles - non-immediate Family of Nobles + family of High Priests + select high class, and/or rich families (including notable Merchants, Performers, Worriers, & even servants)
Priests - Priests are those who have chosen to devote them selves to The Daities and who's job includes documentation of religious history, poems, and songs, they also work under a High Priests as an aid.
Scribes - Scribes are those who often work as a witter or tutor for the upper class with the job of documenting history, old poems, old stories, old song and teaching children. Scribe also induces the following occupations: poets, authors, accountants, architects, doctors, tactician, & scientist.
Artisans - Artisans are those who often work as ether a: builders, seamstress, tailors, carpenter, blacksmith, glassblower, Jeweler, engineer, painters, artists, and other such jobs. Artisans can ether work personal for a sole high class family or as general businesses that sells to all that can afford.
Merchants - Merchants are those who work as a trader, seller, and transporter of all sort of goods, merchants often work for a particulate high class family, or a business often for a set pay. thought rare some can become independent Merchants that don't relay on pay from a business or high class family
Performers - Performers are those who work as a: musicians, bards, dancer, gymnast, actor, jester, comedians, magician and other such jobs. Performers can ether work solo on the streets, in a travailing troop, or work personally for a high class family
Worriers - Worriers are those often ether work as personal bodyguards to the upper class or those who can afford it, there is also the royal army witch also work as the protectors of the people in witch they also must deal with criminals.
Lower Class
Servants - Servants are those who work for middle and upper class people, to domestic duties and other such jobs. Servants tend to live next on or on a particular area of there employers estate.
Farmers - Farmers are those who ether farm and tend to plants and mushrooms or care for and manage domesticated animals, Farmers often ether sell there produces to make money or work for middle and upper class families on there farms.
Hunters - Hunters are those who make there living by hunting, fishing and foraging, Hunters will separate there spoils by what they wish to use and what they will sell to make money. hunters may be paid by middle and upper class to ether hunt for a particulate thing or to be there personal hunter.
#Pixiula#Pixiula Ecology#Pixiula Sociology#pixiula notes#pixiula info#my species#original species#sci fi species#fantasy species#fictional species#species lore#species info#species sociology#species ecology#species worldbulding#world building#worldbuilding#hierarchy#class system
1 note
·
View note
Last Seen Blogs
annaoi
Sketchy Lines and Mood Swings
sutofapureho
Untitled
3-14
π
saltycashews
moving acc soon to @cashactionlawsuit
hwarakcosplay
HwarakCosplay