It is a no brainer, but it is good that a physician / youtuber with almost 10 million subscribers says loud and clear (and I write verbatim): “(…) Im gonna go on record and say, the uptick in neurological conditions like Alzheimers, Dementia etc, I believe is happening due to the fact that we no longer respect sleep. We pride our selves of sleeping less and working more. We value hustle culture. We stay up late because of social media and anxiety and mental health struggles and as a result we are creating brain problems.” (His last video, from minute 02:40 to 03:06) And remember Kids: Alzheimer and Dementia is worse than dying. (The more you know)
I am an assistant daycare teacher in an infant room. My room has babies from 6 weeks to whenever they walk. I have never worked a worse job in my life. I was really excited about this job when I got it, because I love kids and I had been a nanny for a while and loved nannying. The disregard for children’s health and well-being at this daycare makes my stomach churn. I have had a three month old baby in my hands, covered in red spots the size of grapes, with a fever of 99.9 while screaming his head off, and I was not allowed to contact the parents or send him home. I have been laughed at and made fun of my center leadership for asking them to come in and look at a rash on a child’s face, and then calling them back in twenty minutes later…
I don't know about all of you, but I am tired of working my ass off only to end up making less money year over year because my pay doesn't raise as quickly as inflation. This year especially has been hard as we're looking at nearly double digit inflation (cough bullshit it's way higher cough) yet my employer refused to give me a pay raise because my tenure isn't high enough. Even had I gotten one, it would have been between 1 and 3 percent, which means I'm effectively making 5-7% less than I was last year when factoring expenses. The only way I can see this getting better is if the government steps in and mandates that companies must raise pay annually to match or exceed inflation. This would accomplish two things: We, as employees, can actually keep up with the costs of daily living and reduce the amount…
You could examine any single developed countries economy for similar examples but I'll use the U.S. because I'm more well versed. Obviously slavery and child labour were essential to the U.S. economy from 1776 to the early 1900's. But neither has actually disappeared. The economy of the U.S. extends outside of it's boarders via it's corporations and colonies. American chocolate companies rely on cheap chocolate production which is kept cheap because the land owning and managerial class in places like Ghana relies heavily on slavery and child labour. The U.S. put pressure on Haiti to keep wages at pennies in hour because U.S. corporations rely on Haiti for production of things like textiles and clothes. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of people doing forced labour in prisons and jails aka slavery. You get the picture. A group of people in one place can struggle for liberation but capitalism demands…
When I met my now-wife, my father in law, one of the hardest workers and friendliest people I ever met, was unemployed. He had been in sales for a company whose name we would all recognize. When she was younger, the family got to go on company trips because of his high sales performance, and at one point he was awarded a watch for being the top salesperson in the country. My girl explained that he had been fired for bogus reasons just a couple years shy of earning his pension, along with several other older employees. I later learned through talking to him that he had been the local union rep, often fighting successfully to keep his coworkers employed, so the employer had extra reason to dislike him. They loaded him up with bad accounts and then fired him for underperformance, which was in violation of the terms of…
