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🏳️‍🌈Queer feminist anticapitalist financial educator + business design consultant / facilitator/ podcast: Have a Nice Life / I contain multitudes
Sticky note size business revenue, expense, and wh Sticky note size business revenue, expense, and what you can pay yourself estimator, for a hypothetical someone with a #tattoostudio #smallbusiness
Respect for the "how to say no to things you want Respect for the "how to say no to things you want to spend money on" skill set + seeing it as a leadership skill during times of economic chaos 🌟
Is the financial system collapsing? I don't know! Is the financial system collapsing? I don't know! Bless you all for thinking I might but I'm not on the heads up signal thread .... But what I do know is that if you are really stressed about it, take some actions. Worst case scenario you end up with a garden and a compound and some new friends.
Your Dyke Daddies are back, talking about taxes an Your Dyke Daddies are back, talking about taxes and tax resistance! We're not experts on either but we know that 1/ people feel salty about paying taxes especially when they don't like what the taxes are paying for, 2/ most people imagine Tax Resistance is a lot easier than it is and therefore it's not a tactic for everyone, and 3/ taxstrike.info and the National War tax Resistance Coordinating Committee have useful websites if you want to learn more
In case you hadn’t heard, the US stock market is In case you hadn’t heard, the US stock market is in freefall -- technically called: a “correction” when the drop is over 10% -- and is taking the global stock market with it, all because the bad dad / client type [iykyk] who runs our country wants to make a power play using tariffs. ⁠ ⁠ The incompetence is on full display here. Tariffs are, apparently if you’re a moron, meant to make people buy American, but … we don’t make all this stuff in the US anymore. ⁠ ⁠ Remember … NAFTA? The G8? We buy things from overseas, and do not have the infrastructure to make it all in house. So, this is going to not only rock company values aka the stock market, soon enough it will be coming to a wallet near you as prices for things are likely to jump as the cost of imported goods you still try to buy are passed along to us as consumers. ⁠ ⁠ We could literally fund universal healthcare and college and go electric and instead, this. More on the blog by the way!!
Growth is hard [and annoying lets be honest], but Growth is hard [and annoying lets be honest], but you have choices in your approach to the annoying learning moments in life:⁠ * DOOM SPIRAL: ruminate + change nothing, or⁠ * LEARNING LOOP: think about what is not working, try a different thing, reflect on how that's working, try something else as needed.⁠ ⁠ This is work - and it is hard - but given that the alternative to growth is stagnation and not getting to be the person you want to be, I know what I pick.
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