Author: Olivia

Assume the new normal was same pay, half time. So someone making $40K per year at 40 hours per week still makes $40K per year but only works 20 hours per week. Would the economy tank? Would productivity collapse? Would businesses close? What would the fallout be on a societal level? Do we really need to work 40 hours per week to sustain the economy?

I saw some posts from landlords that are 'good'. I put quotations because i believe in their opinion, and the opinion of many, they are good. These are the landlords that don't raise the price beyond covering mortgage or taxes, i.e. they only make money off property value increasing. I think all landlords should have negative income and that rent should NEVER be at the same rate as a mortgage. For limited effort my landlord is making a huge amount of future money by me paying off their house. All for the cost of a down-payment i can't afford because i pay a lot of rent. Why is it fair for someone who works hard and pays for a place to live to end up without equity, without a house they own, and without a down payment to escape the rent cycle? A landlord is a landlord because they have…

Today I came home and almost collapsed from how sore my feet were. It was the kind of pain where I would prefer to have my feet cut off than face it again. Tomorrow I have to walk 45 minutes to work, stand on my feet for three hours straight, and walk home again. And I'm only going to make $24. Fuck.

So firstly, I’ve been on this subreddit for a month or two now after a friend introduced me it. I really find it insightful reading into other peoples work interactions and how immature adult bosses can really be. Now. I have an assessment that is coming up soon for my commerce class. Without doxing myself here, part of this assessment requires us to take the role of a “financial adviser” to a person named Trevor. Trevor earns 1200 a month which he spends on his electricity, water, internet, phone, clothing and entertainment bills leaving him $60 after all those expenses. Trevor needs to buy a new air conditioner and part of our assignment is to help him find the most affordable using a reliable payment method. So good so far right? Well, in order for him to afford this air conditioner he needs to “watch his spending” as in, cut…

I work for a pretty large multinational corporation. I work at a facility with about 60 employees. I've spoken to most of the non management staff and many if not most of us want to unionize. We are all angry and want better conditions. I seem to be the the biggest pusher for this idea and want to learn where to actually go from here? How do I make this go from just idle angry breakroom ranting to actually making something happen?

I went to college to work in my dream field, which is something I am profoundly ardent about, so it was a way for me to deepen my involvement in a hobby I’d had for years. I relished learning new concepts, working on projects, and attending events. I spent all of my weekends furthering my knowledge, graduating with a 4.7 GPA. It’s been two years since I graduated, and I’m still earning just over minimum wage for what is supposed to be the highest remunerated job in my country. While I have only recently begun my professional career, it is disheartening and saddening that all of my hard work, college debt, and alacrity to work have gone to waste. Living in a shitty third-world country doesn’t help either.

I want to work. I want to give my labor. I want to give my time, effort, to my community and the people around me. I want to help people, have wanted to my whole life. But my labor is just taken from me, with the expectation that I continue giving all of myself just to survive and I hate it. I hate how much capitalism has made me fear and hate giving my labor to others, all because of a system that's designed to take everything you have and demand more. I'm barely an adult and I'm already exhausted.