capitalism_a_fling epitome of incomprehensibility In Kingston, going on a $42 shopping spree at Value Village: picture frames for art, two pairs of pants, and a 30s-style felt cloche hat. The next day, watching Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story with my brother. 140814 ... unhinged where eating is an entitlement and corporations are people 140814 ... flowerock when giving away so much as an apple to a hungry co worker is painful, not sharing hurts more, but still. watching tourists stuff their faces with candy, burgers, and icecream and their bags with junk souveniers while they scoff at the "homeless" digging through the trashcans for the food wasted in paper bags. when you have to make $6,000/monthto qualify for an apartment in the city... and you feel uncomfortable looking any kind if well dressed or successful because all of this is making everyone very angry and you don't want to be mistaken for "one of them". my manager at work has a sticker on his bike that says "DIE TECHI SCUM" tech industry is a big part of the "issue" here, but I'm not read up on it enough to have a strong opinion about it. when this fling passes and the monetary system potentially crashes, I hope enough of us remember how to provide without it so that we can help eachother survive rather than fight over the remains. 140815 ... unhinged the tech industry is also an issue here, for much the same reasons. the jobs the industry creates (well at least some of the jobs) are so high above the median income that rent is skyrocketing to the point where a vast majority of people with all the other jobs cannot afford a place to live without numerous roommates. in seattle it is also compounded by the fact that the mayor raised the minimum wage to $15/hr in a bullshit token gesture that will not go into effect til 2017. (by then inflation will make the gesture all but meaningless and in the mean time landlords are using that as a blanket excuse to raise rents). seattle and san_francisco need rent control. period. it is not okay for the real estate industry to make another housing bubble while forcing people out on the streets and simultaneously lining their pockets with the cash of people that break their backs for every dollar. how much money does one person really need? the greed of most americans is disgusting. one last gross story: a friend of a friend that recently moved to seattle was looking at efficiencies in chinatown because they are some of the cheapest in the city. (chinatown is pretty seedy here and many of the efficiencies are old hotels converted to apartments. no real kitchen, thin walls.) most of them go for about $500/mo now. the building manager, in a fit of anger and unprofessionalism, told my friend and his friend that the person that went through right before him worked for amazon and had a six figure salary. and that asshole was trying to scoop up a cheap efficiency instead of an apartment in one of the high rises near amazon that are being built just for them... gross 140815 ... past fuck capitalism and fuck the state that supports it. 150623 ... e_o_i Same for Microsoft (grumble grumble). And not in a sexual way either. 150623 ... amy in red flings are the opposites of ghost stories & honestly, i find it hard to get into Arundhati Roy probably because self-consistency is, indeed, the main ideal for which i strive. this is unfortunate for me, because i selectively forget day by day, fairy hour by fairy hour. is it good? was it fair? can i honestly use it for haiku? (yes the medication sucks but the close family's got the money and the security and the power. & they enjoy that money and that security and that power. the princess and the pea a good story, completely unlinguistic, but that's not the plight of me.... and me is just me not everyone so what rights do i really have, anyway?) actually, guys, nevermind. it's the princess and the pea. 150625 what's it to you? who go blather from