grissallia

grissallia, 2 days ago to random

Part of the reason I feel like I’ve been ratcheting is that I’ve spent a chunk of the past fortnight working in an aged care facility, and it’s been like sandpaper on my soul.

This is one of the better companies, and isn’t a dig on them, so much as how we as a society treat people at the end of their lives.

About the “balancing act” of for-profit companies extracting the maximum that they can from residents and their families to provide a “return” to shareholders, while trying to work out what the bare minimum services they can provide to those same residents are.

While the staff are literally overworked and underpaid for dealing with some of the worst literal shit you can’t even imagine.

grissallia, 3 days ago to random

What’ll really bake your noodle is when you realise how much DARVO is not just weaponised by angry men, but it’s been built into the structure of society.

It’s not that corporations spent decades colluding to bury the evidence of climate change, it’s that you don’t recycle enough.

It’s not that companies have repeatedly cut corners & staff to increase profits, and C-suite salaries, it’s that you don’t work hard enough to justify a salary increase.

It’s not that governments have collectively and consistently preferenced the wealthy landlord “investor” class in their policies and made housing precarious and unaffordable, it’s that you ate too much avocado toast.

It’s not that the economy is structured around having a permanently unemployed pool of people, it’s that people are lazy just don’t want to work.

grissallia, 3 days ago to random

Neurodivergent life is asking what to do in detail, putting in maximum effort doing that.

Then being told you did it wrong and/or you should have tried harder, over and over until you die.