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[-] TAG@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You still get company swag? In the 2010's, I got a ton of it, but not anymore. Maybe it is just that the company I was working at got too cheap to give out swag and when I switched jobs, I joined another cheapskate, but I assumed that it was the same everywhere.

I have enough company and recruiter swag collected during the good years that I have not needed to buy t-shirts, especially because I generally wear a collared shirt over them, so I don't care what logos and slogans they have.

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I'm union blue collar, but yeah there's still branded swag and free meals/snacks during most meetings or training OT at least where I'm at.

Canadian plant, Texan ULC.

[-] turnip@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I'd always assumed they gave them a salary as well. Thats what I have at my job.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is it a fair agreement if the only salaries you can find only pay subsistence wages?

At what point does it cross into slavery?

Most of the time we spend alive we have little to no control over how we spend it, sure we could do "anything", but only until you run out of money.

[-] turnip@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well I think a big issue with that is monetary policy. Which bids up the price of goods using debt, as everything becomes financialized. It used to be a mortgage had a real physical cost as a lump of gold moved around, now its just numbers in a computer created out of the ether, and this bids up the cost of living in order to derive what we call economic growth. A transfer from the young to the old essentially.

The 2% inflation we attempt to achieve is after hedonic adjustments, substitutions, and investments are taken out, and so the money supply grows at 10% a year as people are clinging by the skin of their teeth to eek out more aggregate demand to attempt to infinitely grow an economy.

The 2% inflation was decided in the 90s with no real logic put forth as to where it would lead, and its obviously lead to huge bubbles and asset inequality as people try to profit off the first mover advantage of their debt being debased, as the CPI was progressively modified to loosen the money supply to promote more economic growth over time.

In the late 80's they removed housing appreciation from the CPI for instance, and what do you expect that did to home prices? They did that to fix another problem with the CPI, which was that raising interest rates raised inflation during Volcker, making it a feedback loop that lead to the double digit increase in rates. So it was already broken and it was then patched like it was a car held together with duct tape.