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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • "Working class is an outdated term (IMVHO). The people of the social class that used to be termed ‘working class’ (say, pre-Thatcher > Blair) no longer have the job and social security that term denoted. The social contract for those people has been eroded away. On zero-hours contracts or in precarious (often ‘essential worker’) jobs, those people are more ‘working poor’ or ‘underclass’ now depending on exactly how much money they have in their pocket from month to month.

    Edit - deleted some stuff about home ownership and voting that was too convoluted.



  • Poor, formerly working class, people in the UK have benefited least from the decades of foreign and economic policy that have ultimately caused the migrant crisis, and are being harmed most by it: the market for low-skilled jobs is either much more difficult or impossible, and social services are stretched past breaking. But those people are not crying, they are turning to the far-right in the (probably vain) hope for a solution because everybody else have proved themselves non-credible.

    Even though the current close-to-a-London-a-decade is simply unsustainable, it is absolutely nothing compared to the coming flood of climate refugees. The line will be drawn somewhere. The longer it goes on the stronger the response will ultimately be.

    It is a disaster but that is the reality of the situation.

    For context, the suffering migrants experience now is again nothing compared to the coming harm future migrants will experience due to climate change, and none of us can stop it, because if we don’t burn those fossil fuels somebody else is going to. It isn’t solvable under capitalism because the cooperation required isn’t possible. Write it as an epitaph on human-kind’s gravestone: “We didn’t possess the wit to overcome the dopamine-driven desire for more, now.”