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this is mostly just.. reblog spam sorry🌻
uhh maybe maybe art account..
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Trying 🍃 (This isn't me, just a story I thought of!! My parent isnt supportive LOL)

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His parents outdid him...

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

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The last post is everything.

Also wanna say that John Boyega specifically does a lot of proper grassroots good work and actively puts himself in a position where he knows the racists will keep on coming for him, to actively and materially help marginalised communities.

The fact a black man is never able to say a single word without being criticised is not being missed btw.

The Black Panthers basically Invented school lunches. Schools started offering free lunch because the Black Panthers were providing food to kids who couldn’t have any at home.

As you can imagine schools and parents liked having fed kids. They put pressure on politicians to enforce it legally through officially funded means. And politicians who didn’t want the Black Panthers gaining support, did it.

And so free school lunches were born. No more hungry kids.

But now… They’ve done away with it.

And you should be nothing less than outraged. Why is your family’s stomach worth cutting out of the budget while police get increases? While the military gets increases?

Our kids still matter.

This isn’t just fucked up, it’s anti-black cuz guess who’s STILL one of the largest demographics utilizing that program since the Black Panther’s started doing it?

Link to the article which yes, is real.

“You should be outraged” yes. But you should also jump right on this. Get a group together or reach out to a local mutual aid group. Start with a marginalized school nearest to you. Start with 1 day a week if that’s what you can manage. Make free lunches radical again and let the government choose between bringing it back themselves or accepting that radicalism will see a huge boost in popularity because they are once again the ones feeding kids.

“Girls gays and theys” <- uninclusive while trying to be inclusive. Bad. Makes me uncomfortable.

“Ladies, gentlemen, and other distinguished guests” <- inclusive but far, far too formal

“Alrighty gamers” <- Incisive of everyone, informal, and fun to say.