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What If We Just...Stopped Working? - Second Thought
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this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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I normally like his stuff, but I think he missed a key point this time.
Bullshit jobs aren't about the uselessness of that work. Most of the useless work we do is critical... for the furtherance of capitalism.
Whole swaths of the planet work 8+ hours a day making products worse than they should be, finding ways to squeeze in advertising, tracking, or schemes to manipulate customers into "upgrading". We even burn through skilled psychologists, passing them to design advertising that compels children to badger their parents.
This is the sort of work that only needs to exist because capitalism requires it, and that has a huge effect on people's morale.