Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

firedra6on:

fandomsandfeminism:

whenandwhereienter:

twodotsknowwhy:

fandomsandfeminism:

aflawedmind:

fandomsandfeminism:

caosdth:

fandomsandfeminism:

cardboardfacewoman:

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

Yes.

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

You could buy every expensive thing in the world 5 times over and still have millions of dollars. Billionaires shouldn’t exist when most of their employees are barely living.

cptsteven:

Man I love learning history because sometimes you learn things that’s not widely known just like how Beethoven’s Fur Elise was actually made for one of his students that he was in love with named Therese. She was a mediocre piano player so he made a melody so easy that even she could play it and impress people (hence the very iconic tune in the beginning) but then he finds out that she was engaged to a different man and so Beethoven basically made the other parts so that she can never play it and if that’s not petty culture then idk what is.

therealraewest:

Hey do y'all fucks remember two years ago when just before the election all these “don’t vote both parties are bad” or “vote independent!” Posts were going around and then Trump won and now two weeks before midterms there’s all these “don’t bother voting, revolution is the only way!” And “your vote isn’t gonna matter and is an ineffective way to protest” posts are going around? Yeah knock that shit right the fuck off, don’t fall for it and get your ass to the polls, we are not doing this again.

Medical Facts Ref of Things Authors Botch Up a Lot

hetaliafanficpetpeeves:

Hospitals are not magical / They do not operate like a Pokémon center in the games.

Doctors are not magicians. They can mess up, there are wounds they cannot treat, complications can arise during treatment, there might not be enough doctors available at any given time depending on how busy the hospital is, and, depending on the location, a doctor can refuse.

Hospital visits, depending on the location, can take a very long time just to get the paperwork through, it’s not as simple as “Call an ambulance, hospital guys come, take injured guy, injured guy is in bed, injured guy leaves a few days later all better.”

Bullet wounds are seriously deadly.

There is only one place you can get shot and not be in immediate life threatening danger or extreme horrific pain: the buttocks.

Other locations that won’t kill you in the first few minutes are: arms, feet.

If the bullet hits an artery, you are dead in less than a minute, period. If it hits you in the neck, you are dead in even less than that, period. Head: Dead in an instant. Heart: Probably going to be around a minute but far more painful than getting hit in the head.

If a bullet pierces a lung, you will drown in your own blood, not die as quickly as piercing the heart but still quickly enough that a person who has been shot in the lung needs immediate surgery, as immediate as possible, or they die.

People rarely come out of comas in real life.

If someone is unconscious for more than, say, a week or two, they are in a coma and the doctors will be slowly giving up. A month or more, it’s a persistent vegetative state and the doctors will be telling the relatives, “Okay, so do you want us to keep them on life support or should we pull the plug? Your call.” But nicer.

Concussions are very very serious, as well as any head injury.

The symptoms of a concussion are typically nausea, dizziness, possible vomiting, and drowsiness. If the person with the concussion goes to sleep, there is a chance they may not wake up, so typically you should try to keep them awake.

Concussions cannot be solved with a bandaid. More serious concussions require a visit to the hospital.

If you are hit in the head with a rock, you will bleed and at best, just get a very large bruise, at likely you’ll get a concussion. Same goes for bricks. And having large things fall on top of you.

If you are in a building when it explodes, the chances of you being coherent enough to talk or even alive are very very low.

If you are near a grenade blast, you are probably dead.

If you don’t eat for more than ten days, or don’t drink for more than three days, you are dead.

If you are hit with a blunt object hard enough, you can rupture your organs and die of massive internal bleeding.

Most of this only applies to when they are human: As nations they would be more durable, either in not getting very injured in the first place or healing quickly.

But I have seen where, in a human AU, they do things that just aren’t possible in the real world. They’d be totally acceptable in the nationverse but not when they’re supposed to be just a person. I’ve also seen the inverse and it’s really confusing when it’s stated, “Nations can’t die,” and then the author goes and kills them off for good with no explanation of how.

One last thing that is very important:

Going into shock can kill you.

Shock is a medical emergency in which the organs and tissues of the body are not receiving an adequate flow of blood. This deprives the organs and tissues of oxygen (carried in the blood) and allows the buildup of waste products. Shock can result in serious damage or even death.

(Medical dictionary definition.)

If you state that a character is ‘in shock’ and describe them as ‘blank, hollow, unmoving, cold’ or any of the common things I see, that is what is happening to said character’s body. Typically this is after whatever character has either experienced something horribly traumatic, or been hit by a car, or something.

The best thing for someone not medically trained, which in a human au none of the character are unless you state otherwise, to do would be to keep them warm / cover them with a blanket and rush them to the nearest location of medical care.

and from an anon (you seemed to have a 2nd part but it never sent):

Prior to the 20th century, a scratch could easily get infected, which would result in a fever, and a fever or common cold could easily kill you. In addition, if you are shot in the chest, it WILL cause life threatening damage, whether it goes through your heart, lungs, or just bounces off (and shatters) your ribs. This is not solved with one hospital visit. Do your injury research.

another anon:

Don’t prettify death. Death isn’t pretty, no matter how you go. Even if you go IN YOUR SLEEP, there is still the “final release” of your bowels, which most fanfiction (and fiction in general, movies, tv shows, etc) leave out. Plus, most people that die violently in any way will have their eyes some degree of open. And the effect is more glassy, particularly if they are WIDE OPEN, rather than ‘clouded over’ or ‘foggy’.