What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
@mbutlerhallett
I write fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Disabled. Autistic. Comically awkward history nerd and mother hen. #PWHL fan -- allez, Victoire! She/her. Canadian. Let's be excellent to one another.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC
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Happy Canada Day!
Beautiful things happen when you loan out your typewriter.
I've never been one for ballcaps.
Until now. Go, @victoire-lphf.bsky.social !
The receptacles into which Mrs Spry puts her flowers are equally varied: a wooden bowl, a silver sauce-boat, a tin-lined bible-box, and something which she calls a pancheon. #gardening www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-a...
If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.
From Saturn.
We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.
a bare tree in the foreground. The river is behind it with mountains in the background.
"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide."
-John Muir
Historical fiction workshop at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
Can't wait!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/where-wind...
“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.”
― William Trevor (born on this day 1928)
Woooooo!
Leslie!
Nod nod.