the twitter communists currently are getting mad because some random undergrads made an edible burrito tape bc they should instead be doing medical research
i had to work hard to make sure the similarly corrosive take of “only few people in the world make their own food” also fit in the screenshot
lest y’all think i was making up a conversation that wasn’t in the op the comments are all like this
btw the vaccine in question is a cancer treatment (ie. not a preventative/immunization) similar to another one already also used in the US and is currently undergoing clinical trials in the US.
The wildest part about this is that expecting the greatest possible worth from all work is? Just repackaged capitalist myth??
Like, the assumptions here are:
Standards for any field are set by those of greatest perceived worth (even where not applicable or related).
Maintained or increased value is expected for the results of labor to be worthwhile.
Progress is a linear rising line set by demand.
That’s just advanced capitalism, law of value, and rising market respectively. Fiat currency was just swapped for social capital.
As boggling and frustrating as this is, I think this is a very normal step in reckoning internalized standards with new concepts. This is how value has been determined for most of us our entire lives! It pervades deeper than our idea of economics. Recognizing and challenging that is an awkward, clumsy process.
Compounding that is the inclination that net good must be maximized for the world to change. It comes from a good place! It just oversimplifies the bigger picture.
One way to challenge yourself is to ask what is being done, by who, for what purpose, and how this can play out.
Johnson + Johnson rolling out Pup Patrol bandages? That’s a megacorp’s cosmetic marketing tactic. The sole benefit is to their bottom line, as more kids will want Band-Aid brand bandages.
Undergrads inventing edible tape? It’s an early problem solving success for future scientists. The confidence and experience instilled was the point. However, their work also resulted in something with humble quality of life improvements.
Stealing work to post on social media is the new past time of the uber wealthy. Every time they are called on it, I go full BSoD that their standard justification is “bad work” (as determined by them) being undeserving of credit.
First of all, those are cartoon villain levels of dehumanization and two-facery. Second of all, you’re calling your own tastes shit,
This Pride, I would like to bring up how fucking wild it is that the immediate response to “the anti-LGBT+ sentiments from this person is bad”? A weird number of people hit back that you are taking it out of context, and you weren’t exposed enough to their full work or comments, actually.
Found this old Last of Us fan art I did a good few years ago.
Honestly I wasn’t sure about getting the new one. Though seeing this old art did remind me of some of the little details that I enjoyed in the first :)
