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Fucking peasants.
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Not mine but I feel bad for them
I genuinely believe that if Obama had at minimum passed a public option (not socialized medicine) and made at least public universities tuition-free, the right-wing wouldn't be so extreme as it is now. Obama didn't need to be a radical socialist. I believe he just needed to greatly alleviate the cost of essential needs. Healthcare and yes, education at a bare minimum. I'm talking FDR Democrat or vanilla capitalist. People go to extremes when they are financially struggling. If Obama had lived up to the 08 hype, Mitt Romney would have been as right-wing as the Republicans would get. But this is coming from a person that economically at least, is incredibly left-leaning.
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Age check!
Hey, so I am wondering what is the average age is of the people here. I am 50 years old, considered a Generation X’er. I know there’s this common belief most who agree with antiwork are Millennials and Gen Z. The gut feeling that there is something wrong with this world and how we treat working people has to be ageless. At least I am hoping so.
The politicians that identify as “left” have such terrible messaging and allow the right to hijack every political position. Instead of letting FL or TX talk about businesses moving from “anti-business” states to theirs, the left should be yelling from the mountaintops that they are leaving “pro-labor” states. Tax income and better work rules are why businesses leave these states. I get so disgusted with the “left” because they are constantly playing defense in the messaging war which prevents any real, meaningful changes. Stop attacking taxes and work rules and attack the businesses for basically “moving off shore” to places like TX and FL that have abysmal labor laws and taxes to fund social safety nets
Boss Makes A Dollar, I Make A Dime A new analysis of the pay practices of 22 major American companies found that over the course of the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of the gains made went to shareholders rather than workers. In the first 22 months of the pandemic, the average real wage gain was between 2 percent and 5 percent through October of 2021, though recent inflation probably means that wage gain is actually a bit of a wash. The 7 million workers for those companies, all told, received $27 billion in aggregate pay, which at first sounds neat, until you hear that the shareholders of the 22 companies all told grew $1.5 trillion richer — 57 times the worker pay hikes — and that just 13 individual billionaire founders and heirs of those companies got $160 billion richer. That’s over 12 times the extra pay of the workers…
Asking for some friends. Also, how much separation should there be between the job one does and the harm their company does to reasonably say it's not “my” responsibility for being a part of the “team”? Is it okay to be an accountant on the Death Star, even if you know it's a death star, since it's actually somebody else's job to physically destroy them planets?
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Well I’m not sure what put here
I posted earlier this week about getting hired by a fast food place after struggling badly for months, and being worried I would get fired because they wanted to do a full credit check. Well, I think the credit check came through and I no longer have the job. I was hired Monday and the district manager said as soon as I got all my onboarding paperwork in she would get me on the schedule for the very next day and I would be able to work the one or two weeks it usually takes to get the background and credit checks back. I completed all my onboarding Monday afternoon. The district manager asked if I could start the next day and I said yes. She never responded then Tuesday asked me if I could start later this week. I said yes. Then Wednesday she said she would send me…