like rationally i *know* it doesn't actually help with anything, and that in times as difficult as these, simply existing and staying alive can be considered a form of fighting back. but at the same time it feels like i'm burying my head in the sand and ignoring my problems

The main takeaway from my linguistics degree is that language is fake actually

Yeah I know I posted basically this on twitter before. Sue me

I think the gesture of showing the forest, rather than the forest itself, is the constituent here

Tbh this is how I communicate with my little boy already. It may as well be his name with how he responds to it

"Hey ⊙ stop knocking books off the shelf"

but essentially the same process--the workers get dumped on and the executives take the profit

Kind of the opposite happened in the translation-to-English industry in recent years--as automation took over, it was the grunts who knew two-three-four languages, mostly immigrants, who got fired, while basically monolingual whites got promoted to "editor" and made better money...