Antiwork

Correct me if I'm wrong but the whole point of retail stores closing early on holidays is so the employees can go home and celebrate with their families, right?? We normally close at 9 on Thursdays and stay til 10 to do the cleaning and stuff but today we closed at 8 “for Passover” and they still made us stay til 10?? Whats the point??

The current economic trajectory will lead to simultaneous harvest losses to rival what helped trigger the Great Depression, only they will be unending. The flooding of the world's ports will be an economic shock of the kind never before seen in history, grinding world trade to a halt. If the stock market has not ceased to exist, it will collapse and trade at low multiple to earnings during or before the retirement of these generations. People will trade houses to be able to eat. Even if one can save for retirement, it will not matter as economies collapse unlike ever before. The market is useless for this generation, because the executive class is not meeting its fiduciary obligation to look after the interests of their shareholders. They instead buy farmland to escape.

So I work at an English teaching “eikiwa” school in Japan. Last week, my co-worker was exposed to the coronavirus via another co-worker. She took 4 days off because she didn't want to expose others to the virus. However, her manager still sent her to work today saying “its your responsibility to stay in good health” as if it somehow her fault (and not, y'know, the company's fault for sending COVID-positive workers in the first place) and it's painfully obvious she's sick today. So now, because her manager forced her to work, I'm now at risk, the students (all children from the ages of 3-10) are at risk, my wife (who has asthma) is at risk, plus I may have to cancel my Food Not Bombs chapter's upcoming event. All because god forbid we actually put public health over the profit margins of a multinational corporation. The only net positive…