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Clarissa Brooks
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A BILLIONAIRE giving money to college graduates is not generous... it is the bare minimum of what the bourgeoise should be doing to distribute their wealth.
Context: We give more morality and grace to rich people than we do to each other. Rich people are not smarter or more ethical than working class folks. Rich people having billions of dollars is at the expense/exploitation of poor people.
Hey y’all, I’ve muted this but as your yelling let’s remember that philanthrocapitalism won’t save us. I don’t think this is a small task and I understand the gravity of paying off student loans of black graduates. I’m just not gonna deify a billionaire. Have y’all a good one 👋🏾
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Clarissa Brooks
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Going to do a thread on the new DeVos Title IX regulations and how that is going to hurt survivors in the AUC:
*deep breathe* Ok so DeVos and her administration are looking to roll out new Title IX regulations. All of the new rules are trash and look to keep survivors silenced. See Below:

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The new regulations are:
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Wealth Has Never Been More Equal aier.org/article/wealth… via @aier
It takes nothing away from me that the guy across the bar is a billionaire and I’m not. Chances are that he is providing jobs, donating to charities, and boosting investment in the capital structure that actually benefits all of us.
A society of equality in deep poverty is easy to achieve with enough force.
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Stephanie Hurlburt
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Lazy consulting algorithm: Your minimum rate should probably be

[salary you’d make as an employee at the company (calculated hourly)] x 2

This is bare minimum to account for taxes, healthcare, vacation, sick days, delayed payment, instability, all the extra contractor baggage.
(So if you think you’d make 100k/year, $100/hour as a contractor.) And remember, bare minimum.

The price you charge defines your value. If you can get away with charging more *you will be valued more for the same work.* Human psychology, we want to justify our big purchases.
As a contractor working for wealthy companies there’s never an unfair or too high price. I know several people who bill $15000/day.

👏 Charge more 👏
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This part of this thread has me thinking about turnover, wages, mobility in the workplace, and inentional understaffing - bare-minimum staffing IS understaffing, by the way.
(*Note: Given the usage and context, I'm interpreting her usage of professionalism as proficiency, standards, etc - rather than the other, crappy usage, emphasizing language and conduct in accordance with white, middle-class values - and I'm adopting it for this thread.)
This is also not specific to the industry she is discussing.

How much professionalism is lost by paying people less than living wages and overworking them by asking them to cover structural gaps in staffing, all but ensuring high-turnover at the levels that actually do things?
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Give universal basic income and watch the GDP go through the roof. Everybody who does business is doing more business. Demand goes up. Supply goes up. Rising tide lifts all boats.
The rightwing in this country has spent decades chasing cars on the principle that it plays well, and right now a lot of what is happening is that the generations that grew up watching them are now actually catching the cars.

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Giving money to the poor is the most magical thing you can do for society and for business. People whose basic needs aren't being met will spend 100% of the money they get, which means it goes right into the economy.
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And everybody who spends that same money along the way gets something to show for it.
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