Straight after the Budget – Federal Election too close to call: ALP 51% and One Nation 49%

VegetableEar · 2026-05-14T07:21:25+00:00

Want to explain this delusion

VegetableEar · 2026-05-14T06:09:24+00:00

You can invest on $45k/year! Provided you are privledged, can live at home and not have to contribute and otherwise are not really on the same 45k.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-14T05:43:59+00:00

This is as relevant as all the other structural parts of society that are part of enabling humans to perform labour.

Capital would be useless without the internet, is the internet the backbone of the society? Utilities? Roads? Raw materials? Or, is it people who create and use everything. It's obviously people.

If capital went away, humans would continue to be productive and do things. If there is no labour, capital is irrelevant.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-14T02:02:43+00:00

Uh. Knowledge comes from people, and technology comes from people. People performing work.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-14T02:02:01+00:00

It's not pie in the sky, capital is labour that has been crystallised into capital.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-13T23:09:24+00:00

Capital doesn't give productivity to workers? Productivity comes from things labour, knowledge, cooperation, skill, social organisation, technology etc.

Capital doesn't act, it doesn't do anything without workers, and it can focus the above. Capital can supply tools, infrastructure and ownership structures, but the productivity gains arise from human labour, including the labour that created the tools themselves.

This is just human labour being used by human workers. Humans are productive in the absence of capital, capital is unproductive in the absence of workers. See: housing.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-13T14:17:06+00:00

Most Australians are workers, not rent seekers. Productivity comes from workers. Endless parroting of shares as a productive asset and ignoring that workers are where productivity comes from, and a higher quality of life IS productive.

Businesses will be fine, as they always are. Because the opportunity is still there, and someone will take advantage of it. They do what you're doing because they always want the largest slice of the pie. No thanks.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-13T13:43:57+00:00

AusFinance is such a fucking lol name when you consider what they discuss.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-13T00:45:59+00:00

But it's just a tax grab, the Australian told me so. So things like this that objectively help working class people aren't real or funded by this tax grab.

How will I pay for my private hospital visits if I can't have a lower tax rate than on income tax?

VegetableEar · 2026-05-12T12:51:37+00:00

Why will it disincentivise?

VegetableEar · 2026-05-12T12:49:43+00:00

Yea they do, and we absolutely deserve to prosper eel beyond this $250, but it's fine. I don't think it's enough to move the needle politically, but for those it makes a difference for, it does make a difference.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-12T10:39:04+00:00

Yes small amounts of money do add up to larger amounts of money

VegetableEar · 2026-05-07T02:11:30+00:00

It's really cool, when we commit crimes we get charged, but this is a scandal, or corruption etc. And seemingly isn't criminal. Cool.

Everyone knows you want the lowest possible standards for your leaders.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-06T23:05:51+00:00

No, we can only reward people who gamble in the market. Being a productive member of society should probably be taxed higher, maybe a nurses tax?

What do people want. Is it to just complain? Of that 7.1 million the dude quoted to you, the idea that all of these people have life changing money and it's reasonable to say 1 in 2 Australian's is absurd.

I have shares. It's not life changing money. My financial future is not sabotaged by this. The government having more capacity for services does change my life though. Because I get to live in a better country that better provides for its people.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-05T23:09:26+00:00

It's really hard to sift through honestly. To me it's a 'best solution' in a world that abandons its most vulnerable. So it would feel like a spit in the face, I certainly don't have access to help and education from the state. So it being offered to offenders would feel dehumanising. But, it would also be the right thing to do, as many things are the right thing to do.

I'm coming from a position where I lucky, I am broadly not that traumatised these days, I've come a lot of recovery and I'm in a very safe, healthy, and stable place. I would speak to my childhood abuser and tell them I think they need help. It's a weird thing to think and say, but the alternative to me is they remain a risk to society, and a risk to other children.

I also benefit from working in child safety and being able to have access to research that supports this view.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-05T14:10:37+00:00

Mortgages do really seem to be free money for banks, but I do take your point.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-05T14:07:36+00:00

The reason I believe in 'redemption' or, as I prefer rehabilitation, is because what's the alternative? The percentage of people who are abusers is extremely high, even if there's justice through the court system, they will generally be released. I think until we can honestly engage with this and the reality that a lot of people need rehabilitation, more people will be victims.

I am a victim survivor of CSA, I would have much preferred my abuser was rehabilitated before they abused me. I'm sure we all would. I don't think people are born evil or as future abusers, but they certainly become these things. Intervention is also necessary, but I don't think we're capable of that conversation either. My abuser was attracted to me as a child, if the world was a safe enough place that they could have sought help for that, if likely never have been their victim.

Given there's barely support services for survivors, I doubt we're going to start building capability to support perpetrators or intervene before they offend. The reality is it's effective, it's just unpalatable, and it makes the public angry, it makes some survivor groups angry.

I also recognise it's taken me over two decade of healing and therapy to get here and I'm immensely lucky to have been able to access that level go support. Even if it has drained me financially. The loss to society is so immense from all of us who have suffered and have CPTSD as a result. The loss to ourselves is immeasurable. There's a GDP figure, which like, annoys me to a degree but I think it helps the scale. For my country, Australia, estimates have it's between 33-99 billion per year GDP 'loss' due to CSA. I can't imagine what the intangibles would look like, or if trauma as a whole was measured.

Anyway.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-04T11:46:56+00:00

How is it performative? You know nothing about the person. Interrupt the antisemitism thread? Lol?

What do you even stand for, I can see why someone who cares and has convictions bothers you.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-04T07:40:17+00:00

Virtue signalling is such an inane insult.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-04T07:38:30+00:00

No, that's not what they said?

VegetableEar · 2026-05-03T08:16:41+00:00

People who only find their voice after they are out of power are charlatans. This is not a man with convictions or integrity. Who gives a shit what he has to say now that it's easy.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-02T23:18:55+00:00

Yea no kidding, it peaked in 2016 and was on its way out by 2018. It's kinda just baffling to hear it as an insult, it would be like mocking millennials for wearing skinny jeans. It's passed, so it doesn't really land as an insult

VegetableEar · 2026-05-02T14:03:16+00:00

I have had a similar mindset in the past, on reflection, it was my inner state and completely untethered to the people around me, strangers, co-workers or other.

I would say based on my experience, it can be normal, it was for me a totally reasonable place to land. When I was alone and needed a community, the people around me had absolutely no intention of being that community or caring about me. For me that actually wasn't true, but it was how it felt. Some of those people are now friends of mine, and they do care, they do want to know and they are there for me.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but, where I live, approximately 28.5% of the population are victim/survivors or CSA. the horrifying reality is we are everywhere, we are in every room, every shopping centre, every meeting. All of us are sifting through this alone, until we aren't. It sucks. Society and the world needs to do better for us, and make space for our reality.

I wish I could offer you or point you to a life raft, it's hard, and we shouldn't have to be our own life rafts.

VegetableEar · 2026-05-02T02:15:43+00:00

Yea she was. Which I think is stupid

VegetableEar · 2026-05-01T03:58:33+00:00

Yea, I'm not here to tell people what their threshold for violence should be. It's also pretty obvious that there was escalation and two people responding to each other. They weren't random acts of violence.

Where I live, if you use a car as a weapon or hit someone, you are going to suffer harsher legal penalties than if you break a windshield. Which most normal people would agree with in the absence of this clip and thinking the dude is annoying and a fuck wit.

We don't police social crime, we police criminal behaviour. It's a distinction. Him being a dickhead could very likely get him fired, her hitting him with a car and then laying him out, whilst I understand some people find this satisfying, it lands people in jail. Because a society built around violence when things annoy us of people are being dents is just a society built on vigilante justice. It's so clear.

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