Antiwork

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how much money Elon Musk’s net worth would come out to per day if he lived for over 2,000 years up until the start of this year. If he acquired his wealth over this amount of time, he’d be making over $323,000 per day. Over $323,000 every single day for over 2,000 years would get him to what his net worth is today! Other billionaires aren’t far off from this either. It’s difficult to perceive a number this big so I hope this gives you all some perspective on just how much the working class is being exploited.

Grinding myself away day after day has finally broken me. Ive busted my ass for years pulling consistent 60 hour weeks yet no employer ever pays me enough to survive. I have to beg just to make the last of my rent let alone for food money ever since my stamps got cut. I did everything i was told, work hard, smile, always be looking for new opportunities, and still it ends in homelessness. Not by any choice of mine but by having a shit spawn. How the hell can i be expected to keep up with this shit? How can anyone advocate for our current system? Why should we destroy ourselves for those who already have so much? I cant find a way out of this hell.

This is a little long, but it connects to /antiwork. I come from a working-class white family that is very affected by multigenerational trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, disability, and poverty. Some of my relatives are the people described in Angus Deaton and Ann Case's book “Deaths of Despair”: working-class people without college degrees who perceive their long-term economic prospects as bleak and are experiencing high rates of death by suicide, alcohol use disorder, and overdose as a result. (No disrespect meant there.) Due to family dysfunction, I left childhood with serious PTSD from physical violence and emotional abuse. I got well with a lot of hard work and some good luck. (Importantly, while one side of the family is working class/poor, the other side is middle class, and this positioned me to access clinical care I needed.) In time, I've managed to build an interesting life and career, with…

Im absolutely fking sick and tired of Catering industry feeling like they own us. I work (for now) in a busy pub that’s constantly under staffed and over booked and I’m losing my patience with the way this st is run. When they take too many bookings, we’re expected to work all the way through the day without any rest, or food. I absolutely lost it at work and started ranting about not being a slave and wanting a fair work environment, but my co workers are too spineless to speak up so everyone looks at me like an idiot. I just left my section with all the tickets still on, cause i was 4 hours late for my break. Fk this industry with it’s st pay, long hours and never ending overtime.

I work for a Fortune 500 company in a frontline sales position. I’ve worked for the company for six years now. Recently, in hopes of moving up, my family and I moved to a new city and settled down. Fast forward a few months and the company opened some positions above me. The position included a management title and a pay bump. I applied and the interview process went really well. They said I was a great fit and congratulated me on the new role. My family was ecstatic. They gave me a start date and told me an offer letter was coming any day. A week before my scheduled start date, an offer letter still had not come. I got a call from a member of upper management to inform me that they would not be going forward with promotions right now. Despite our area being short staffed, record…

I had two jobs last year for a pizza place and a school cafeteria. The pizza place lasted about 6 months before I quit over them lowering my hours and stuff to the point I couldn't afford rent. The school job I got fired after me and my fiance was nearly killed and I was shook up mentally that day. That's when I decided to try delivering with Uber And GH. Being able to set my own hours has lead to so much less stress because if I'm sick I can call off whenever. I make more per hour than I did at a normal job. I'm happy with it. However, friends of mine are complaining because it's not “a real job.” Just because I'm not working for some shitty boss or a shitty corporation doesn't mean it's not real. They are saying it's unreliable and the list goes on.…