I actually posted this as a comment on another post in another sub. I'm sure I'll get some backlash, but I probably won't respond for health reasons. This is just something I needed to get off my chest. Comment if you want, if not then don't. Hope you have a good evening.
“Let me fix your quote there since you've got it wrong. It should read: “No one wants to pay anymore”.
I am totally for a civil war at this point and am dumbfounded why this state of affairs is continuing since we outnumber them. They have turned this country into a slave state where even doctors and lawyers can't afford homes. We don't own anything. We rent and lease and pay off credit cards with interest.
When you work you are leasing your body for one hour at a time. I don't give a f*k what you are doing, your life is worth more than $7.25 an hour. *Oh, but that's for kids to make money for spending or saving up. Fine. But don't you DARE give that wage to an adult. Not to an adult who needs that wage to survive. Oh, but I can't afford a higher wage for my employees! Then you shouldn't be running a business. Shut it down and open a website.
Then you want to force people back to the office, why? There is absolutely no good reason to. Office culture is toxic. No, they just need people there so they're not losing money on rent. There's a housing crises people, why not really put those empty buildings to good use? And actually help society for a change? I just don't know if I can do that! Sure you can, you'll recoup your losses and if you price it reasonably (a shock, I know) you can make other landlords lower their rents as well. This would help everyone and doctors and lawyers could sleep in a bed and not a tent.
And Restaurants. How dare you?! We have it hard enough without having to pay your employees wages for you. The Great Depression is over (although we may see another one if the people in power don't get their heads out of their @$$£$) there is no reason why we should be the ONLY country in the ENTIRE world to require tipping. Then you have the absolute gall to print on your boxes and bags and menus how the delivery fee doesn't go to the driver, they survive on tipping or this restaurant proudly pays its workers $4 an hour, please tip. YOU ARE PROUD OF THAT?! SERIOUSLY?! Pay your workers or close your doors.
To the government, you guys are borderline millionaires and apparently don't give a $#!t about us. A lot of people are trapped where they are because they have families. They can't risk losing what benefits they can barely afford, so they are trapped like slaves. Then you overturn Roe vs Wade which will only create more slaves. But what really astounds me is you mfers are damn near millionaires while we are living a paycheck or two from being homeless, yet you sic the IRS on us.
You force us to pay for things we may never need, like a good driver and car insurance – that's money that will never be seen again. But if we ask for anything back from what we've paid you over our lives then you attack and crucify us. Tell me please, why are we paying for health insurance? We still have to pay hospitals and doctors, etc. If we pay for health insurance that stuff should have already been paid for, why are we paying a middle man? The one middle man we need the government ignores and companies actively fight. Unions. We need them. In every company, in every field. I get that for a time they may have been crooked, but that was then and this is now. It's a completely different beast, and with the BS companies are trying to pull today? Yeah, unionize.
They squeeze every penny from us and pay themselves and their defense budget and let everything else go. No social aid at all (well except for their oligarch supporters). No medical reform, no educational reform, no housing reform…
No, I'm not a right wing conservative or a leftist liberal. I'm someone who can see our country racing toward a gigantic cement wall, and there is no one on the brakes.
libenter epulamur de his qui nos subiugant”