@Tattie @Bel_tamtu Especially when societal problems can beget further societal problems, in a spiral that cycles vicious one way, and virtuous the other. The departure from Bowley's Law circa 1980 has hollowed out the working class, and its children paid a price. Now the grandchildren are paying the same price and more.

@Bel_tamtu @Tattie My extended human acquaintances include a set of fraternal twins. Sweet and mild, since the day they were born. And then, when they went to a daytime pre-school child-care facility, so the parents could return to working full time, the boy instantly acquired worrying behavioral problems at home. From the other boys thrown together in the toddler pits.

The parents, of course, rationalized it away, because the alternative was to pull an entire income, which they could not.

That's what I tell myself to make me feel better about working for "bad" employers. Was it cowardly to take jobs in the military industrial complex instead of fighting the system? Yes. But my personal history with poverty supported it.

If ever someone judges me for what I do or have done, I refer back to the list of people who non-transactionally helped me, even in the smallest of ways, when I really needed it, and perform an intersection with {}. The system works; I know I have no choice.

@bbiiirdbPhD @corycarson The institution of worker employment is *already* co-opting the energy everyone could be using every day to improve ourselves outside of the systems that hostile people control. In that context, it matters slightly less who one's employer is, in that they *all* basically waste 20-60 hours of our time every week, for no better reason than the fact that most food and shelter can only be traded for quantities of the national currency.