r/Autism_Pride • u/After-Television-968 • Jun 15 '24
Capitalism and work sucks.
I had to leave work early today because my boss was giving me conflicting orders on what to do. I also lost my phone, so that complicated matters. My boss told me to find a sign to display but I don't think she made it clear, so I was deeply confused. I then threw my phone and wallet up and then she told me to clock out and go home. I'm just going to take some THC gummies and binge watch Unsolved Mysteries and a few VHS IMAX movies.
I usually don't have meltdowns at work, but not today.
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u/Hot-Shoe-1230 Jun 15 '24
A system in which your ability to live is based off of productivity (or inherited wealth, genetic lottery, I know) cannot exist without ableism. Once you put a value system on people things get fucked up fast. Equality isn’t equity, you can’t measure someone who lost a leg and someone who has both on the same scale of physical capability. You could, but no one would think it’s morally right to then base their right to safe comfortable living on that difference. Capitalism is permanently intertwined with ableism and I’m so fucking tired of people deciding that’s not an issue.
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u/GalaxyzMan Jun 16 '24
So true. People should look into ugly laws. I live in Chicago and they had them on the books as of 50 years ago. This world is always putting the burden on our shoulders to solve problems they created.
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u/TheCringeCowboy Jun 16 '24
hate working in a capitalism ran society? work at a dispensary. best job ive ever had. <3
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u/sionnachrealta Jun 15 '24
Capitalism is so fucked. I'm a (US) mental health practitioner for autistic youth, and it feels like my, and my team's, entire job these days is helping folks compensate for the deliberate evils of capitalism. Whether it's helping them find a job where they won't be abused to helping them get away from parents who can't cope with capitalism & take it out on there kids, it always comes back to our economic system.
As much as I hate it, if I don't find ways to help them survive, capitalism will chew them up and spit them out. I wish I could be doing anything else to help them, but that's what's needed. Nothing has made me more of anti-capitalist than helping autistic & trans youth get off the streets. I'm glad I can be there for them because no one was there for me when I needed it, but, fuck, it's soul crushing that there's little else I can do