If not now when?
“I ask the political economist and moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralization, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man” Almeida Garrett. 1799-1854
If everything is down to the minute, this only seeks to punish the disabled and those who menstruate. It’s discriminatory.
It’s time for the 32 hour work week!
Anything over 32 needs to be recognized as overtime. The current 2 days off 5 days on is NOT sustainable for modern life. We will have a healthier, happier society if we are fairly compensated at 32 hours/week. Let’s put the pressure on! Prop up businesses, restaurants, schools, healthcare facilities, etc., with this set-up who also provide fair wages/benefits. We can make this happen.
Someone will be divorced three times, have multiple children they don’t pay attention to, have a drinking/drug/sex addiction, collected two domestic violence charges, and is emotionally unstable with a personality disorder thanks to stress… Yet someone asks about them and the answer is, “they did pretty well for themselves in the insurance industry” Wtf?! Sounds like the insurance industry broke this person to me…
the powers that be are doing an excellent job of confusing people as to WHY we’re seeing the biggest inflation in 40 years. now obviously this is hugely complex issue with many contributing factors, but it’s also important to try to isolate what’s arguably the “biggest” reasons the economic landscape has so suddenly changed. Link to the run away inflation we’ve been seeing since June 2020 what i’m worried about is the “forgotten story” of the 500 billion tax dollars we gave to wealthy corporations during the first round of the CARES Act… this is when the inflation really started taking off.. it’s the second largest bubble listed here.. Link so they took 500 Billion of OUR tax dollars.. allocated it to wealthy corporations.. and IMMEDIATELY sold that along with 200 Billion in mortgage backed securities to The Fed for 850 Billion in loans (received by these…