Rachel-Sarah.

Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage.

I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.

And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?

Good for them.

Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”

And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.

My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.

The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.

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I have these two neighbours and they’re married and they gotta be like in their late 30s and I’m making dinner and I look out the window and they’re running around outside in their pajamas and bare feet with water pistols soaking eachother and laughing so loud it made me realise I’m wasting so much time trying to make relationships perfect when all that’s really needed is someone who will laugh with me for the rest of my life

I was walking through the part the other day, and there was a tiny little old lady of about 80+ years old, walking along the top of a small wall that runs through the centre of the park, with her husband walking alongside holding her hand. I wish I had taken a photo because it completely melted my heart.

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Various Varieties of Vegans

Ethical vegan: Doesn't eat or use anything that came from or harmed an animal.
"Plant based" vegan: Doesn't eat anything that came from an animal, or anything processed or "unhealthy," but might still wear leather or use beeswax or ride horses, etc. Probably is vegan just for health reasons.
Environmental vegan: because that pound of beef used as much water as six months worth of showers. and did you even think about the amount of greenhouse gasses involved?
Raw vegan: fruit + raw veggies + sunlight + magic vibes
Gourmet raw vegan: poster child of raw food. eats raw dehydrated cashew kale chips, raw spaghetti noodles with raw cashew pesto and raw walnut sausage, and raw cashew cheesecake.
Raw til 4 vegan: smash in the carbs. nice cream. pasta.
Low carb vegan: similar to bigfoot in that its existence is whispered of but unconfirmed. probably eats lots of nuts and avocado. is suspected to be moody and undercarbed, so if you encounter one please watch out.
Junk food vegan: Oreos, potato chips, vegan pizza, just about anything the plant based or raw vegan would avoid, but at least it didn't kill any animals!
Hipster vegan: organic veggies and rainforest certified fair trade coffee. cooler than you. probably works at the farmers market or the local vegan cafe. wears bamboo fiber flannels and tshirts with inspirational quotes or funny media references.
Hippie vegan: not to be confused with the hipster vegan. this variety spends more time out doors with dreadlocks and pot. could possibly be a raw vegan.
Punk vegan: wants to abolish animal abuse. defies the capital system. wears black and cruelty free hair dye. anarchy.
Athletic vegan: bodybuilding/marathoning/intense everything sporty all the time. super fit, obv. either loves or hates peanut butter. there is no in between.
High school vegan: probably alone at the lunch table. constantly made fun of or interrogated about veganism and whether a food is vegan or not.
College vegan: usually locked in one of the deeper states of deprivation. stocking up vegan recipes until to wait until they have a proper kitchen. having to turn down beer because it's not vegan. crying over finals into a bowl of plain potatoes or instant ramen
Emotional vegan: oh my god did you see earthlings. did you SEE earthlings. omg i love the beautiful animals so much HOW CAN WE EAT THEM I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. i have a pet chicken. look at the chicken. ITS SO CUTE LOVE ALL COMPANION ANIMALS PLSSSSS
Stranded vegan: I WANT TO EAT BUT NOTHING HERE IS VEGAN SO I'M GOING TO EAT THIS BANANA AND CRY.
Purist vegan: no. can't eat that. that has honey in it. nope, not that either, the sugar isn't certified vegan so it was probably charred with animal bones. are you kidding me. of course i can't eat THAT. that is supplemented with vitamin D from animal sources. oh those tortillas don't have any non vegan ingredients? sorry just to be safe i'm getting the certified vegan ones instead.
Aspiring vegan: not actually vegan. typically speaks very loudly and says things such as "i would be vegan but cheese"
New vegan: i don't know what im doing but im just gonna eat this peanut butter and hope purist vegan doesn't yell at me
Lucky vegan: lives in a place where there are lots of health food stores and vegan restaurants and vegan people and vegan stuff in general. i envy you.
Vegan guy: usually sought after in the vegan community. hard to find in real life.
Vegan girl: take up the majority of the vegan community. yet they are still hard to find in real life. the struggle.
Hot vegan: all vegans. wtf did you think. gorgeous creatures
This so catty and bitchy in places, I still don't get why some vegans think they are better than others ffs.