Maybe it’s because I’m obsessive about words and enjoy overthinking things, but I do this a lot with common words and phrases that we use. The one that horrified me today was the phrase “cost of living”. It’s right in front of our faces that it literally costs money to remain alive. Did we know this already? Of course! But the fact that it’s so deeply woven into every aspect of our lives and people don’t even pay attention to what’s coming out of their mouths is wild to me. Wild, and wildly upsetting.

I hope this wasn’t a weird post or a post that doesn’t belong! I will delete or accept a removal of the post if it doesn’t fit. Thanks for reading all of this.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    271·
    1 年前

    The one that horrified me today was the phrase “cost of living”. It’s right in front of our faces that it literally costs money to remain alive.

    Yeah that one gets me all the time too. Liberals are all the time about “Human life don’t have a price” and then they not only slap pricetag on everything human needs to remain alive, but they even price, by the hour, week, month, the worker’s time, their life itself.

    And then they freak out at the term “wage slavery”.

    • ticktok@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      You have to quantify the cost of living in order to demand a universal basic income to meet the people’s needs.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        122·
        1 年前

        That’s very, very, very specific justification for complete commodification of our lives. Also didn’t happened anywhere and i don’t see how it can success in current political climate where “austerity” is the word of the century.

        • ticktok@lemmy.mlEnglish
          23·
          1 年前

          I don’t care what economic system you’re in, you still need to know how much bread to make to feed a village to know how much wheat you need to plant.