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[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 23 hours ago
[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

An arrangement where employees bargain collectively with their employer to have more leverage, usually collecting dues from members to help with things like strikes.

I think it's called a "sindicato" in Portuguese, though in English "syndicate" means something a bit different

[-] kielimieli@r-sauna.fi 20 points 1 day ago

I wish I could eat like this - not only for the cost effectiveness, but it'd be better for the environment than meat! Having IBD really sucks. I can only imagine how difficult it is in the US where the medical care is so expensive on top of everything else.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago

"Also, do you really NEED to sleep?"

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Mmm, delicious advice duck ... is telling me to eat the rich?
Welp, who am I to question it's wisdom, must be the right thing to do.

[-] r0ertel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

That duck is looking pretty tasty right about now.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Hey if you have a legal place to hunt, go wild!

Buying anything but the cheapest of meats these days is eye watering. I'm not one for hunting, but I keep debating going foraging since I live near mountains in Utah. Spend the day hiking in nice weather and end the day with food you normally wouldn't have? Sounds like a good day.

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Are split peas and chickpeas not beans?

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You're not wrong! But I felt like some people wouldn't think of split peas, and wanted to call out more than just "beans"

[-] protist@mander.xyz 135 points 2 days ago

To be clear, if you're at all concerned about maintaining a food budget, even if it's $500/week the billionaire class is still your enemy.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days ago

To be clear, the billionaire class is your enemy

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago

To be clear, the 100 million class is also your enemy

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago

To be positively translucent, even someone with $1,000,000 in the bank has 1000x less than the poorest billionaire. For other disturbing facts, see https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/.

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[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 day ago

Ok but for real tho. The average American severely underestimates how far you can get on rice, beans, lentils and chickpeas.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 23 hours ago

Rice amd beans is the most important thing on my region's diet. You just can't live without eating it at least once.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I have a union and still just scraping by. But if I didn't have the union I'd have drowned by now

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I can buy oats and flour on the cheap around here, but chickpeas and dried beans? That's very quickly sounding like $10 a day.

[-] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

Bruh how? You can get kilograms of dried beans for $10.

It's more expensive for canned beans but for $10 are you eating 5 cans of organic beans a day?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe chickpeas are expensive where you live, or maybe you miscalculated. Either way, take a look at my numbers for comparison.

We can get a 3.63kg bag of chickpeas here for $7.49 (CAD). Assuming you fulfill all your Calorie and protein needs from chickpeas alone (2500 Calories and 150g protein per day), it comes out to about $600/year. That's $1.64/day. In order to be $10/day, you'd have to pay 6x as much for your chickpeas, so that same 3.63kg bag would have to cost $45.50.

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 68 points 2 days ago

Hell, even if you can easily afford way more than that, you are still closer to the person who can only afford $2 of food a day than a billionaire.

[-] cumcum69@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

What's the difference between a chick pea and a garbanzo bean?

spoilerI've never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unionization isn't enough, we need syndicalism. They're like Unions but armed, more organized, more willing to strike and sabotage, and unlike Unions which attempt to hold back the Capitalists Syndicates replace capitalism entirely. Remember, why demand the scraps of the capitalists when we can take the means of production and the complete value of our labor.

Pro life tip: Read theory, join your local socialist or anarchist organization, get involved, strike, sabotage, just make sure to organize

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Syndicalism is nice, but without a solid analysis of Imperialism it risks taking on a Nationalist character if you're in the Imperial Core. Additionally, if you're in a de-industrialized nation like the United States, worker organization is more difficult along union lines, which is partially why Unions have historically struggled in the United States in recent years.

100% agree on reading theory and joining an org, just wanted to add some caveats.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

"Hey won't this get us banned... oh right, ML!"

If they bring armed thugs to the strikes, only fair if strikers do as well. Negotiation only happens between parties on equal footing.

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Read Marx, especially if you don't think you need to.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

What about eating people's cats and allegedly ducks as well? Did you know thousands of pets are euthanized each year? That's all just wasted food.

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[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Feel free to ask me questions on how to eat on a budget so you can keep your strength up while organizing against those that wish nothing more for you to work until the day you die and own nothing of consequence!

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