capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
today someone told me that charity and mutual aid is bullshit because "you just give away the money and the person in need is just leeching off of you instead of being independent"
I said that I don't care. I see a person in need, I help them as much as I can. it's wrong to assume they are lazy just because they're in a poor position. not to mention that poverty is a cycle. (1/3)
capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
@tillianisafox I will never understand how being beholden to a boss or a client or whatever in order to live is “being independent” but just asking people to throw you a few bucks in order to live is “leeching”
capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
@crash their framework of thinking is that they are working on their jobs to earn money while the person who is unemployed isn't. but if we go by that logic, then we should be mad at people in coma or severe disabilities for not working. how dare they be in an unprivileged position!!! /sarcasm
this only goes to show that they only care for themselves and not others
re: capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
@tillianisafox @crash IMO it's much more insidious than that. I have so often been accused of "lazy begging" because I'm asking for donations on stuff that I've put a lot of work into, arguably more work than people would typically put into a paid job for the same thing.
You're not just expected to "do something for your money". You are expected to do it in the exact prescribed way according to established social norms, by either following the orders of someone else or being exploitative, and precisely nothing else.
re: capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
@joepie91 100% agree - even if there isn’t actual stuff being exchanged, people have to work to just get their mutual aid info circulated enough to have a chance. But that work isn’t valued the same way that fundraising or grant writing would be, even though functionally they are the same (writing things / making graphics with the aim to collect money for some purpose)