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The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Unemployment in a Capitalist System

It's kind of funny that how unemployment is self-reinforcing. How the corporates itself creates and perpetuates unemployment. How labourers are punished for taking gaps from wage slavery (even when such gaps are unwilling). BUT, no capitalist is punished ever for withholding capital. It's like either have a smooth no employment gap resume or die basically. And no one is pointing this out unfortunately.

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Drones don’t have emotions. Drones are productive. Must make quotas. Work harder

Saw this while getting my car serviced and just felt bad for them. It's a dealership garage so you know that car salesman energy is a pain in the ass for the mechanics

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Taking extra days off because my coworkers are moronic

I don’t like lying to my boss that I’m sick. I did that over 20 times last year and I’m trying to avoid doing it so much this year. However yesterday my bonehead coworker had me explain something to him 8 TIMES and still didn’t get it so I ended up doing it for him, like always. My boss will probably get on me about taking too many days off on short notice but I don’t care, train your employees bud that’s not my job. I get 10 days off in the year but I’m gonna end up using at least 15. I almost want to be fired at this point because I’m so sick of it, next time I get railed on for being out “sick” I’m just gonna use the old Scruffy line “fire me if’n you dare” I’m so stressed out from my job today it’s worth…

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These Republicans Tried To Water Down The Minimum Wage — And It Backfired

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Larry Fink worth 1.5 Billion claims Americans should work longer to retire.

He Claims Americans “live” longer – except we are not. America is unique amongst industrialized nations of having a declining “life” expectancy. His answer to fix the retirement crisis is work longer….not better pay so people can SAVE for retirement 🤯 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-social-security-crisis-raise-retirement-age-blackrock-larry-fink/

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“Innovation” ROFL

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One UPS driver dies and another barely survives after heat emergencies in Texas

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More than 80% of recruiters admit to posting ‘ghost jobs’ to juice their talent pool and business reputation

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Thousands of Waikiki hotel workers ready to go on strike

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Too many boot lickers for that to happen here!

Australia gives workers the right to ignore their bosses outside of work hours—but employers call the rule 'rushed' and 'deeply confusing' https://fortune.com/asia/2024/08/26/australia-passes-right-to-disconnect-ignore-bosses-outside-of-work-hours/