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The Rich People Who Are Into Art Will Save You All
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Learning How To Walk in Our Own Shoes
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Learning how to Walk in Our Own Shoes
Learning How To Walk in Our Own Shoes
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Docs are uncomfy as hell, which made me think
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We talk a lot about how to 'walk in someone elses shoes'
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As a means of understanding how they're doing, and what they might be struggling with.
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Rarely, though, is there such focus on <strong>our</strong> struggles.
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There is much focus on <strong>my</strong> struggles, but not on the collective.
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Break for meeting w/anon
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I bought some Doc Martens.
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Anyone who has ever broken in Docs, knows the process is uncomfy as hell, which made me think
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We talk a lot about how to <i>walk in someone elses shoes</i>
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As a means of understanding how they're doing, and what they might be struggling with.
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Rarely, though, is there such focus on <i>our</i> struggles.
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There is a lot of focus on <i>my</i> struggles, and how <i>I</i> should solve them.
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People make entire fucking careers out of telling you how to best thrive under capitalism.
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Life coaches, wellness influencers, financial gurus, and a load of other shite.
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There will always be
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<li>An unkempt white dude willing to tell you what stocks to invest.</li>
<li>A software engineer who dreamed of being in the army telling you how to lift.</li>
<li>A model who made one issue of Vogue telling you what trends are next.</li>
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A student who walked by one pro-palestine protest telling you that thrifting from Goodwill is making the
world a better place.
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But... we don't really see this for collective action.
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There are so many tired YouTube video essays that explain how if each of us all did <i>one specific thing</i>,
we could save the world.
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We don't see so many that drive us all to collectively take one action as a group.
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We don't see influencers telling us all to see that the shoes we are all walking in all have
the same tread, the same wear patterns, and all are set to be uncomfortable as fuck to walk in unless we do something about it.
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Because that doesn't get clicks.
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Because the shoes came broken from the factory.
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Because no matter how many new soles you buy, they <i>will</i> wear out.
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Because ensuring better fucking shoes are made for those next doesn't help <i>me.</i>
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Because I can't wake up, go to work, change the system, and come home to sleep the same day.
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<strong>But.</strong>
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If we don't change this, who will?
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If we don't all walk, together, in our collective shoes, and demand that things change, we just end up with the
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Same. Shitty. System.
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Forever.
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