This very well may have been posted already, so please feel free to delete if so. Yesterday, I was listening to one of the major news networks (NBC, I believe), and they were saying that the reason why inflation keeps soaring is because of workers demanding higher wages and how, if they continue to do so, the Fed can’t do anything about inflation no matter how much they increase interest rates. And I am still absolutely livid about this a day later and can’t stop thinking about it. So what should we, as employees, do? Just accept that our wages are now worth 10% less and that most goods are 40% more expensive and just take one for the team and starve?
This is the exact same rhetoric that my own employer is using not to give our employees above a 3% salary increase this year. I am just so sick of working in this society that caters to the rich and no one else, and some days, it almost seems like letting myself starve and die off so the system doesn’t continue to exploit me is the only option I have to make a difference. This is one of the main reasons why I’ve chosen not to have children.
And before you talk about organizing, take a look at your friends. They’re all distracted, using Netflix, Instagram, alcohol, etc as coping mechanisms. I thought in 2020 with the protests that there was some hope for us to rise against the status quo, but it almost feels like people are even more complacent now in 2022.
People are starving, and yet, no mass movements are taking place. Convince me that there is hope (within the US) for a mass movement in today’s world full of ways to ignore this. Please.