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Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.
Only rich people would think this was a good idea.
Learn your history, people!
We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.
I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.
Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.
#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever
You know the song “Sixteen Tons”? If you don’t or need a reminder, here’s the chorus:
You load sixteen tons, whad’ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go--
I owe my soul to the company store...
The song is about a coal miner in a company town--a man so far in the hole thanks to the system that even death won’t release him. It was first recorded in 1947--less than a hundred years ago.
Company towns are BARBARIC. It’s a massively exploitative system and when early 20th century workers fought back against them they were evicted, arrested, and murdered (your history reading subject for today: the Coal Wars, especially the events in Matewan, West Virginia and Ludlow, Colorado).
Don’t fall for this shit again.
a part of that song a lot of people miss is how he describes going to work literally the day he was born
in the world we are rocketing towards there is a heavy implication that many teenagers should be shoved directly into the permanent service of amazon before they even graduate highschool in the name of financial responsibility
whatsapp went down last night and my friends resorted to sending me emails like some fucking. world war 2 era letter
So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really notβbut honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.
All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.
This is your "show not tell" advice explained!
THIS
hm. im REALLY against any variation of “this rule is true in any context” because it defeats the point of creativity, but this is good advice for a) beefing up your descriptions and b) communicating emotional tension (eg, the MC has not admitted or processes this feeling but you want to show them having it)
That said, sometimes you would want to just state the character’s opinion. (& maybe contrast it with their actions, the situation) or use a shorthand when it’s like an introductory side detail.
What I like about it though is that it’s NOT stated as a “don’t ever do this in any context” rule - it’s not a rule, it’s a challenge. Don’t ever do this for the next six months and see how it changes your writing. Not never do it again, just try it and then you can go back to using them but you’ll probably do it way more sparingly because you’ve built up other tools to use instead of those words.
I am reblogging this because it will be very useful for some people but I will also mention that I HATE it deeply and profoundly and will never do it.
I like what I like. (retreats back into her box, hissing)
anime fans will be like “omg look at his smile 🥺 ❤️❤️❤️“ and it’s like, the corner of a straight line inclined up 3 pixels
