Author: Olivia

Every work day, which is probably 5+ days a week, you come home physically and mentally drained. You get a sliver of time to yourself before you have to repeat the process. You barely have time to do chores, let alone have fun. You don't have enough time to make gains in the gym. You don't have enough time to make progress in therapy. You are a prisoner in a system designed to keep you in a perpetual state of fatigue and anxiety.

I’ve been a teacher for about 12 years, and I’ve really started questioning the social function of public schools. The obvious—and in my opinion uncritical—answer is education. But is it really about education, or is that just the rhetoric? Now, before I go on, I want to make it clear that I’m not against public education. There are countries in the world where people are thirsting for basic education. There are developing countries where people really want and need an education to build up their vital infrastructure and raise themselves and their families out of poverty. But in developed countries, it doesn’t seem to me that a grade school, middle school, or high school education will do much of anything to raise you out of poverty. Hell, I’d even say that about half of university degrees won’t do much to help you in that regard. Aside from basic literacy and…

Hear me out. Tipping is way out of control and uses solidarity among workers to either subsidize low wages or be painted as the bad guy while employers hide behind it. A planned tipping strike, for say 2 weeks, would give affected workers a chance to say it's not worth it to work those weeks, so either every place that relies on tips to cover shitty wages shuts down or has to scramble to do something about it. I feel like this is the only way since no lawmaker will help and owners won't do anything without being pushed. Am I crazy or is this maybe an ok idea?