Washing clothes now adds to the plastic problem

Orionaut said:
(Another is to pursue policies that encourage the breaking up of families so that people become individuals and therefore unable to support one another in a non-cash way)
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Not sure if serious ?

Most couples that break up end up costing the economy more money, the woman is suddenly eligible for
Working tax credits
Child tax credit
reduced council tax
reduced rent

That is of course assuming that she doesn't work full time (which most don't in these cases, they end up becoming pretty much full time stay at home mums)

of the 3 or 4 women I know that are single mums only one works full time, and that was the case before she split with her husband.
 
asim18 said:
Yeah. A considerable amount of women (and men) these days barely have time to raise their kids because they have to work 30 years to generate money for a capitalist organisation, just so they can pay for a borrowed roof over their head. Women's (and men's for that matter) time is worth a lot more to CEO's if it's spent mining gold for them. Time spent doing things at home like raising children, feeding your family, and washing your own clothes, is time wasted for slave owners; therefore time spent doing these things needs to be minimised in order to maximise slave productivity. People think they are benefiting from working for a capitalist organisation, but the fact is that there will always be at least 1 person who will be benefiting 100x more than you are from your own time.

The point is if you're spending your time at home; cooking your own food, raising your own children, growing your own fruit and veg, keeping your own chickens, maybe looking after a cow, then you are not helping the 0.5% elite population amass their fortunes and build islands, buy yachts, fly helicopters and dozens of Bugattis.

No need to go ape extreme here. Who is suggesting locking women at home lol. The point wasn't even about women, I just used women and washing up machines as an example because back in my days women generally did the house work.
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Funnily enough, I find myself not giving a ****. Also, I do the vast majority of the washing at home whilst bringing in a slightly higher salary :o
 
Water companies need to filter it. We have a filter bag but dunno if it works.

Id rather pay more to Water companies for them to do it.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
Watching your evolution over the years from slightly wacky guy who has read too many psychology articles on wikipedia to full on, small holding conspiracy theorist crack pot has been an absolute joy. Please don't ever change, or, should I say, keep going in the same direction, you're so close to the truth man, you could blow this whole thing wide open!

On the wider topic, women campaigned to enter the workplace, you could argue that they're now all "wage slaves" working for the "man" (if you really must), but previously they were beholden to their husbands as sole bread winner within the household. Entering the work place allowed for economic freedom and must be up there with the top 10 most impactful aspects of the women's rights movement.
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Close to the truth? I'm just posting facts here. What is conspiracy/theoretical about anything I've posted?

I mean I could go through my entire post explaining how every point I made is certainly not theoretical, but I cant be arsed to be honest, unless you insist. So maybe you can highlight some sentences which you think are particularly theoretical. I've just posted things which are actually happening right now in society. Not things which might happen lol.

In reply to your second paragraph, you're still thinking of this as a man/woman/equality issue. You need to think about societal balance here, yes women have the same opportunity as men that is excellent, but that is not what is being disputed here. You need to think about time. We cant just have all men enslaved, and then try to start to enslave all women too. We need to ensure it's possible for the men to take over things that the woman would have spent time doing. This is where the washing machine example comes in. And this is why there are more and more people out there who are stressed and depressed with work because for example, they barely have time to feed their kids or even take them to school.
 
You can get bags to stop this, good for the health of the washing machine and drainage too :p

Not sure they sell them in the UK yet though.

Tumble dryers are just as bad. The amount of crap that comes out of them (even though the filter) is nuts.
 
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billysielu said:
Buy cotton and then its fine?
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Interesting documentary last night which certainly opened my eyes, even without the major problem of plastic pollution with clothes, the fashion industry is the second largest polluting industry in the world, behind only fossil fuel energy production. And the amount of water used in production of fibres etc including cotton is astonishing, something that had a major impact on the Aral Sea lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south.
 
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