Author: Olivia

I'm in these three subreddits because I identify with the ideas of them, and I feel they are all apart of the work that needs to be done to change the way our society functions. There's no reason we need to be working as many hours as we do to survive and it's kept this way intentionally to inspire us to be better consumers. The less time we have for ourselves the more things we buy for their “convenience” factor. I think about how much of a demand being a consumer society creates on resources. If we didn't buy so much then industries would not produce so much, and use so much. If we made longer lasting clothes, technology, and buildings then we wouldn't need to exchange them so frequently, we could repair things when they break instead of throw them away and replace them. The media plays possibly the…

Fortune 500 company with record profits and we get … a cookie. I'm so mad right now.

I have put everything I can into my job, I have worked all the hours asked of me, put extra effort in wherever I can got glowing reviews, changed entire processes (for the better) system wide changes and became a person of “expertise” to put out the fires no one else could. The company in question has after what can only be described as several miss steps engaged in its second round of involuntary redundancies, no the directors did not take pay or even bonus cuts no they did not try to preserve the business just started getting rid of people. I completed on my first house this week, my first home I have ever owned after putting every single bit of money I could into it, 2 days later I have no job, the company new this, knew months ago they would be culling people at not at single…

I saw a post on this thread earlier last week(I think) that had said that $15 an hour is poverty. My point in asking this question is that it won’t matter how high the minimum wage rises. The minimum wage will still be poverty until we do something about business hiking prices to “pay their woks”. What economic policies should we put in place if we don’t outright move to a Socialist means of production and economy?

Just a bit of a rant here. I got a new job and have been working 6 days a week at just under 40 hours (so the company avoids providing me any benefits). Tell me why approximately $120/week in taxes is being taken out of my paycheck. That’s nearly $500/month in taxes being taken out while I already live paycheck to paycheck. And I live in an infamously “low tax” state where the infrastructure and public utilities lie in complete shambles. The amount of my (and other Americans) money going straight into politicians pockets and corporate handouts is absolutely pathetic. Maybe this doesn’t seem like a lot to some, but it is for me.