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Work Reform
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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.
Our Goals
- 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 don't disagree with you. These seem like entirely reasonable definitions. Yet... I still kind of question their utility. It's just semantics and the delineation of classes depends entirely on the conversation you're having.
Want to complain about capitalism? Sure... working class vs owning class, or 1%, or whatever you want.
For more or less any other conversation we don't use terms like "lower class" or "middle class" but we divide cohorts into segments in order to make them easier to read about. It's not a sinister plot by capitalists to confuse the plebs, it's just practical.