Antiwork

How ridiculous is it that people who complain about “social welfare” don't complain about how we're engaging in “capitalism welfare” by letting companies underpay their workforce and then have the government try to make up the difference. We also federally subsidize corporations (aka corporate welfare) at about a 2:1 ratio of how much we spend on social welfare programs. Fucking Nike alone gets 2.1 billion from state tax incentives and I don't think they even manufacture a fucking thing in the US. According to Nike they employ 73,300 workers worldwide, so Nike has received almost $29,000 per employee worldwide. I can't really find how many US based employees they have, but I imagine it's way less than 30k. It's difficult to separate the numbers, but when you calculate the state tax breaks and direct federal subsidies It's absolutely mind boggling. Some low end numbers I came up with is 6:1.

My friends said I should share this story here. I was working for a data center performing network admin duties as a contractor for $27 an hour. They hired some new management staff and hired all the other contractors as employees except me. I asked for a position 65k with benefits and 2 weeks vacation. They kept putting my offer off for weeks and I finally put it my notice. I was living in a building that wasn’t rented exclusively by the business with some of the other employees and they arranged with the landlord to have me kicked out. Two months later when they realized how specialized the work is I was doing for their particular operation, they are calling me to tweak the network, set up redundancies and vpns. I’m now charging them $240 an hour, working far less hours and making more money. I almost feel like…