Just one called lemmyunchained

This is exactly it. We never know what each other is struggling with that limits their capacity to do things, we don’t know what supports they need to succeed.

Thats fair. I guess its more so just hierarchy in general. When people are in power they get to decide what is an isnt valued.

I went and fixed my original comment

Also I apologize for immediately assuming that you were trying to be rude

Do you think this is a gotcha or something? I’m an anarchist, not a marxist.

There is another similar quote that I think fits your roommates situation.

“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of “idlers” among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.” - Peter Kropotkin

A reminder to people that there is no such thing as a lazy person. Only a person who’s work is not valued

Edit: erased “under capitalism” at the end. The problem of certain work or skills not being valued is not limited to just capitalism

To me haggling isn’t about value, its a conflict between two conflicting interests. One side wants to make as much of a profit as possible, and the other wants to spend as little as possible. Haggling is at worst manipulation and exploitation as both sides are trying to scam the other (and its heavily favors the seller), and at best its two people finding a compromise on a price both are willing to agree on.

Value is a subjective thing, it is different from person to person, thing to thing, and even time. Its part of why I’m an anarcho-communist, and to me that is relevant as you are asking this in an anarchist community. I believe an economy should be built around need, not value. Resources should go to those that need it, and I trust people to decide what they need themselves. Production should be geared towards meeting people’s needs, not about making the most profit.

Haggling fails to accomplish either this as it is purely about value. It is a competition between two different people’s perception of an objects value, and a competition that is basically rigged in the favor of the seller. I say this because the seller does not need the product, that is why they are selling it, and they can simply say no.

To emphasize this, lets run through a hypothetical. You are a baker selling your goods at a market and a buyer approaches wanting to buy a loaf of bread. [We are going to simplify the costs and such of being a baker for the sake of simplicity]. It cost you $1 for the ingredients to make that one loaf of bread. But you cant simply sell the loaf for a $1, you put work into making that so now we gotta factor in the value of the labor. Lets say you think the value of the labor for that one loaf of bread was $5 in your own opinion (cause value is subjective). So to you the value of the loaf of bread is $6. But you dont simply want to make ends meet, you want to make money.

You offer to sell the loaf of bread for $10. The buyer is a poor starving old man with very little money. You two haggle and you come to find he only has $6. You have three choices, sell it to him for the value you feel its really worth which would be all of the man’s money, you could sell it for less (if you sold it for $2 you would make double the costs of the resources to make it, even $1 would break even), or you could refuse to sell it to him and wait for a more profitable customer. What choices does the buyer have? None, if you decided you won’t drop to $6. If you drop to $6 or below he still has no choice, its pay or die of starvation.

Of course this is an overly simple hypothetical, but I feel it gets my point across.

For me it was a combination of the BLM protests in 2020, finding real life examples of anarchism through HOI4 with the Spanish Civil War, watching “Living in Utopia”, and reading At the Cafe by Errico Malatesta.

Prior to that though I started off as a very uneducated 14 year old self identifying as Trotskyist. And I really just became a communist because I cared a lot about fairness, and I didn’t think a system where there is an owning class and a working class was fair. And because originally my only knowledge of communism was a freshman understanding of the Russian Revolution, between Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. I picked Trotsky cause I liked his emphasis on international revolution, and at the time I thought he was the most democratic. Then slowly I became more libertarian socialist as I learned about other Marxist ideologies like Council Communism and Luxemburgism.

The BLM protests really pushed me to the conclusion of abolishing the police, and that laid the foundation for everything else that came after to build off of for me becoming an anarchist

So not any of the world’s governments or corporations

Bro, I am just going to assume you are ragebaiting me cause no way did you use Its Always Sunny as a source lmao

They argued you cant make it better cause the improvements impact does not scale with costs. As an example they mentioned, implementing sidewalks would make walking safer, but cost ridiculous amounts of money that tax payers would have to fork over. Something they likely won’t do because costs will likely outweight the benefits for a lot of people

Getting my ADHD diagnosis was very validating for me. It validated the struggles and experiences I have, and allows me to be kinder to myself

If the majority of mentally ill elementary schoolers at the place my partner works know that 9/11 was real, I have a hard time believing the average kid thinks its just some weird cultural reference. And when it comes to the Edmund Fitzgerald, they just don’t know what that was. I didn’t know what it was till I saw the meme.

Bush did 10/10

Do you seriously think young people think 9/11 wasn’t a real event? Just cause we make stupid shitposts about it doesn’t mean we think its fake.

You are right, I phrased that wrong. I fixed it.

Looking through the comments highlights once again that neurotypicals continue to invalidate neurodivergent experiences because they do no understand the experience. Part of it is certainly due to the language we continue to use, as it doesnt explain the full extent of the experience. But another is just neurotypical people refusing to understand the struggles of neurodivergent people.

In relation to specifically this meme, yes most people do not like tags. Most people find them irritable and uncomfortable. The difference is autistic people are more senstive to sensory things, to the point something like a tag itching at your neck becomes an excrutiating and unmanageable experience.

If you can go a whole day wearing a shirt with a tag in it with no major issues, you are probably not autistic. If when you wear a shirt with a tag it is a unbearable sensation, something you cant ignore and stresses you out to the point you cant go a full day wearing it and still function as a humanbeing, you are probably autistic.

For future reference for neurotypical people, stop assuming you know what being neurodivergent is. For those people trying to find the fakers, stop. You arent a doctor, just like how that person you are trying to accuse of self diagnosing for attention is also not a doctor. You genuinely do not know what you are talking about and are genuinely no better than all the transphobic chuds that “transvestigate” people. At best you called out a shitty person trying to earn internet points (someone who will not think twice about your comment), and at worse you are invalidating someone’s personal lived experience (something that can seriously affect their mental health).

If someone is talking about their experience as a neurodivergent person and you think “Hey I do that,” there are two more likely possibilities than that they are faking. Either 1. You are autistic and don’t know it. Or 2. You are not understanding the full extent of what they are talking about.

My friend, who is not me, finds this very relatable.

I do want to specify that I am not counting AI in what I am talking about. I agree AI is worse and I consider it a whole different beast than the regular brainrot any generation consumes. I love shitposts, I love stupid and surreal memes, I love the stupid cringey internet shit like Homestuck, or Skibidi Toilet, whatever. Even if I don’t actually interact with it, I love that it exists and that people are enjoying it. Its real, its human, and like it or not it is art.

AI is the antithesis of art. It is not creation for the sake of creation or expression, it is creation for the sake of consuming. It is what art has struggled and failed to escape from, and that is becoming a product to be consumed. There is no expression or soul. I admire art in all its forms when it is made by a person because they wanted to put effort into making something. Not for profit, not forfame, but because they find the process to be intrinsically valuable to them. It is something I wish to see expand to the rest of life.

AI art is shrinking that glimpse and plunging the light and hope art gives for a better world, and confines us in a dark world of consuming and producing like a sick human centipede ouroboros.

Me and my partner debated a lot about this because they hate skibidi toilet. I had never watched it and do not care to but I tried to tell them that skibidi toilet is no different than shit we grew up with, they just werent on that side of the internet. It is literally just a SFM video. Its no different than the shitpost tf2 sfm videos a lot of us were watching back around the 2010 and that are still being made today. Is it Pootis Enage levels of SFM cinema? No, more akin to We Like To Party. But to pretend like the brainrot we grew up with is any better than the brainrot late gen z or gen alpha are growing up with is just delusional imho. I mean look at the shit we had, like Badgers, What Does The Fox Say, and plenty more. We always had brainrot on the internet, you’re just not a child anymore. Honestly I feel like the brainrot has gotten a bit better in a certain way. Its not as bigoted as it used to be. I remember a lot of internet humor being just saying slurs, racism, ableism, and queerphobia (not to say it doesn’t exist now, but I feel it is less common). I grew up with it, I still find it funny even if I also find it distasteful, but if skibidi toilet is the worst of your concerns then I think we are gonna be fine.