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Poverty Solutions

Posted on by Dmitry

as many of you know…. I am a University of Michigan graduate. I guess I’m pretty smart, but there were definitely classes I struggled with in Ann Arbor, so I guess I’m not as brilliant as I thought I was.

I like to check in once in a while, with my alma mater. I once asked for a million dollars (True story), and they sent a detective out here. They don’t just give out money, I guess… there’s always hoops to jump through.

Now, I haven’t actually reached out to this POVERTY SOLUTIONS group. It looks like it may just be one guy coloring excel sheets or something, but I really think the Name is a little uh…. ill-fitting, I want to say. Like everything around here, in America. lots of HOPE… not much substance.

No, Mr. Luke does have a large staff, actually. Data, data, data. STRATEGIC PROJECTS. They have a Communications Specialist and also a Senior Communications Specialist. Wow. and they’re all SOLVING POVERTY.

See, for me, being an alcoholic, homelessness became a real possibility after graduation. if it weren’t for the codependent Mom, I probably would be on the street somewhere. I wonder how many homeless University of Michigan graduates there are. I bet the Poverty Solutions director knows. I am real curious.

So. I don’t know. maybe I should reach out to them. I am just trying to imagine how that Conversation might go. He might tell me to go SEE SOMEONE (like a therapist). that’s what the Detective said when she arrived here. And I did. I saw lots of therapists. probably close to a dozen. they haven’t even gotten me sober yet.

or, maybe. GET A JOB. JUST GET A FUCKING JOB SOMEWHERE.

No, no no no no. See, that would be ME doing stuff. Everyone and their Cat tells me to get a job. That’s not very original. See, you’re the guy with the POVERTY SOLUTIONS. so Solve my Poverty!!!

How about this, how about you tell me how I can get my very Own Poverty Solutions bullshit budget, and I bet that would solve some problems. for me.

Well? How about it? Where do I sign up?

poverty.umich.edu

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People are Real. “money” isn’t…..

Posted on by Dmitry

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. (Gotti or Gottman… I’m actually not sure. One of those… starts with a “G”)

Money is Imaginary!

Clint Rogers

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in ‘changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them’; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.

Paulo Freire

Well, we all get to decide for ourselves what’s real or not, I guess. Jordan Peterson says Pain is real. Yes. Philip K. Dick? Real is that which doesn’t go away, when you stop believing it. So you figure it out. What’s real. What’s bullshit. I’m no revolutionary. I’m just throwing some ideas out there. I just want a BOOK DEAL, and I want to go back to Russia. Really, I do. I’ve been screaming about this for years on Facebook. But I need that book deal. That Snowden fucker didn’t even finish college as far as I know. He got an Oliver Stone film, too. Pretty sexy.

But, Im still going to go ahead and say that People are More real than “Money” – Crypto… Dollars…. Rubles. Fucking whatever it is. People are more real than money.

I’m actually very grateful to have worked at the US Dept. of Labor after college in 2009. Met lots of interesting characters. the “Boss” there was really good at kissing ass and playing dumb. He talked a lot about being PROFESSIONAL, which I think means “in Denial”

Just think… the FLSA law, which was my main area of study while I was there, that stipulates overtime compensation for All workers in America was passed in 1938. But even these days…. so many business owners seem to be confused about when they need to pay their people “time and a half”

They’d rather pay a lolyer to talk to me for a few hours, just to get clear on this simple idea of “time and a half for hours over forty.” well sometimes it was a little more complex, but usually not. When someone steals a fistful of cash, we don’t seem to be confused about the situation, you know? We’ll pull a gun on someone if they take that Money. But when people’s sweat and tears…. are shed, and some asshole’s trying to muddy the situation, we need to BE PROFESSIONAL and have lots of meetings, and interviews, and really, really, really get clear on the fact that people are exploited. Why?

I had years of talking to therapists and social workers who kept trying to talk me into doing some bullshit job because I haven’t worked in years… or because I caught some bullshit misdemeanor somewhere. And I intuitively knew that I had to push back on their bullshit. You ain’t gonna get away with this, you lying piece of shit. But only this year, did I come across the Paulo Freire book, which explained to me my intuition. So think about it, for a while. I’ve said this elsewhere and I’ll say it again. I’m done acting. I’ll live in a tent if I have to, but you ain’t paying me enough to be an actor. I got skills, you know? I got 4 years of college drinking under my belt.

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