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
    25•1 year ago

    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”.

    • @ticktokEnglish
      1•11 months ago

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      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        10•1 year ago

        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.