u/Enough-Business-8287

English isn't my mother tongue, but if I said "worklessness" instead of "unemployment", would an American person understand me?

If every human being on planet earth had a basic universal income and is guaranteed to have the best healthcare he or she can get, would the fact that unpaid care work is still mostly done by women be a problem?

To me, this would still matter but much less than in a capitalist system where this unpaid work can plunge a woman into misery and a lot of suffering if her husband turns out to be bad and unreliable and she's to leave him and she's broke because she couldn't build up her career.

I don't think there is any solution to this problem in a system that seeks to maximise the profit of the ultra-rich.

Hi folks, a while ago I talked about the evolution of a friend. He first drank Kratom tea from time to time, then several times a week, then every day and one day, his vendor told him of 7-OH. He told him that it's a very good remedy and that it's not a drug of abuse, that almost all folks who get addicted to it either were addicted to opioids before or had severe mental health issues. My friend believed him and he quickly began to consume 7-OH several times a day. He told me that it feels wonderful and that it can "KILL [HIS] SORROWS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE" but that he isn't an addict, that he can stop whenever he wants but that there is no need for him to stop as 7-OH helps him to thrive and even to be better at his job. As he got angrier and angrier against me, I decided to no longer talk about this with him.

However, several days ago, I realised he had sold lots of things such as books he liked, his bike he uses from time to time and one of his two TV sets and when I asked him why, he got defensive and he told me that he just doesn't need that stuff anymore.

Do you think he has fallen so deep under the grip of 7-OH that this thing now controls his brain and behaviour?

Why is he so SOUR ON ME whenever I ask him such questions even though he knows I care for his well-being?