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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Well of course not all of them are going to be antithetical to capital. Affirmations are to remind you of positive thoughts without being toxic. They serve to remind you that life is more than making money for someone else.

    I also don’t believe that we should discount someone’s work because the owner got involved. Like it sucks to see someone younger than you get handed everything and more that you’ve struggled to earn, but it’s less to do with the person being given the stuff and more to do with the person doing the giving.


  • I’m almost exactly 10 years older than you, and had similar thoughts heading into college. This is what I learned about those thoughts.

    After we got out of college, we are just going to sit in front of a computer like the generations before us for the rest of our life

    I wanted to avoid an office job, thinking that they’re all bullshit and soul sucking. What I’ve learned is that mental and emotional labor is just as variable as physical labor. The soul sucking still happens as it would in any physical job, but I learned that you need to find something that sucks less than the others and then fight against it. My method of fighting back was to organize a union, but there are other ways as well.

    You, as an individual, will need to learn coping mechanisms to stave off the doomerism. I learned a lot of these independently, but this image is a perfect representation of my affirmations and how I remember that I’m more than my job.