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i’m kind of a crybaby for this but
some people i work very closely with are getting their flexible work options taken away and
listening to her talk about working on fridays and paying another thousand dollars a month in daycare was honestly kinda crushing.
yes getting the obvious out of the way: blah blah privilege blah blah she’s white and getting paid a shit ton anyway, the daycare is probably racist, her critique is oriented around a somewhat silly metric
but like that’s all irrelevant and comparative suffering is stupid.
i fucking hate the abstract social domination of capital and the coercion and violence it inflicts.
and the brutal and blunt particularity of this case being personal just makes me feel such despair.
in a lot of ways the very concrete concerns expressed make it all the more depressing. there exists this world-permeating system of subtle compulsion, and yet the main thing you can focus on is daycare.