I don't mind doing work, but I do mind not being compensated enough that even working 60+ hours a week won't afford me even the cheapest rat-hole to live in. The fuck is the point of spending my time slaving away for some rich fuck to get richer while I live in the street or a car if I am lucky?
The slavery is the point. The robber-barons of 100 years ago determined a tired, busy workforce doesn't have time to organize or protest.
(The idea wasn't precisely new - they didn't invent exploitation, but they shaped the industrial revolution and as such their impact can be felt across the modern world.)
Next time censor the J word please
In the future they'll just censor all of the verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
Or, in modern parlance, "In the f*ture th*y'll just c*ns*r all of the v*rbs, n**ns and adj*ctives."
The star will be the only vowel. Eventually they'll just drop it all together and English will be only consonants. Children will ask "nn gndrd prnt fgr, why ds th kybrd hv ths xtr fnny lttrs?" And no one will know the answer.
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Imagine having a job, lol
Me to everyone around me when I'm on vacation
Trust fund babies can be so cruel 😢
"Oi Clean Shirt!"
How did you get that shirt so clean mate?
I feel attacked that one of the jobdonthavers is wearing a TTGL shirt.
I think heard in passing, some video clip saying a dude was "promoting the 9-5 lifestyle", aka having a job? Is that bad now? I'm getting old.
It's more exploitative than many younger individuals agree with. 40 hours and still can't buy a home? I'd say the 9 to 5 is a failed experiment.
Thanks for the context. Fwiw I can definitely empathize with that. Companies have been giving employees shit deals more and more over time.
For instance, I've met single company lifers and can't imagine that level of loyalty given a company wouldn't think twice to lay me off.
A lot of people like that are just coasting along, and fairly happy with where they are.
And that's fine, if your company treats you well, it's not a moral failing or anything.
No judgements either way, but some people do believe their company cares about them. I have yet to experience that myself is all.
If you hate 9-5 five days a week you might want to look into how work used to be.
I think you're missing the point. Just because it was worse does not mean progress is pointless.
He said it was a “failed experiment.”
That does indeed make it sound pretty pointless.
“This is a failed experiment” does not mean “it’s an improvement but we should go further.”
I know everybody wants me to just get their point, and I do, but the words we choose also matter, and these were poor ones.
Yeah I feel this. "Failed experiment" implies, to me, that we should forget this avenue of thought and go back to what we had before.
"Outdated concept" might have been better?
Either way we're all in agreement fundamentally
No, it's a failed experiment. The fact it doesn't even exist anymore should tell you that. 9 to 5 monday to friday today is only 37.5 hours of pay a week.
I'm not sure I follow you. Can you explain
When the phrase working 9 to 5 was sang to the world for the first time it was true. Men got into the office at 9 and left at 5. An eight hour time. This was given to the man in his paycheck. A full 40 hours. Today the company no longer compensates a persons lunch. Meaning people either are made to clock off for an hour making the 9 to 5 now either 8 to 5 or 9 to 6. If someone does work only 9 to 5 Monday through Friday their employer will deduct 0.5 hours per shift for the lunch they took. Thats 2.5 hours they no longer pay you. The 9 to 5 doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for decades. That's only speaking about time cards.
If you worked a full 40 hours a week but, can't afford a home. Then all of this has failed. If you can't reverse a fatal action the system isn't faulty it's broken. We've been quibbling over how to fix the problems of inequality for so long, it's no longer a question of how do we fix it but, can we even fix it at all now?
Capitalism was doomed the moment they decided a standard was no longer needed. Inflation meant it was only a matter of time. If entropy is added to a system that system will inevitably fail. The wealth inequality is so massive, most people can't actually comprehend it and think we are being exaggerative or demonstrably over starting the problem. Heee is the only solution I've heard that would possibly correct the last 100 years of pure greed.
Cap inheritance to 50 million.
Tax every property owned past one with a step up taxe system. Each adds 10% property tax to the next. Something along those lines.
This may piss some off: Only allow citizens (naturalized is included) to own land.
Now can you see why I say it's failed and this can't be fixed? The degree of change needed is too great. The rudder will snap first.
Edit: sorry all the money taken from these three things would then need to be redistributed to the people directly at the end of the year as tax returns. I also recognize stocks in there current form would not survive this process. Again, the rudder breaks first.
Oh yeah, agreed 100%
Hope none of that came across as rude. I was trying to be concise but as punctual with the feeling as i could. We are all still in this together.
rude
I'm on the spectrum so I can neither tell nor give a shit! The soundness of what you're saying is most important to me.
"I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved."
"This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you're not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!"
I like how you totally changed what you said, put it in quotes, and then did the exact same thing to me. This is a great example of a straw man: take what your interlocutor said, turn it into an extreme pantomime farce, and then bat it down. Feel better?
I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.
So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.
You “paraphrased” what you said to be more reasonable than what you actually said, and “paraphrased” what I said to be less reasonable than what I actually said. Gee, neat trick.
Unironically some social security single moms around here are like this
What is a social security single mom? Genuinely asking
In my neck of the woods it’s a derogatory term for women who are bragging about income while also receiving large child support checks + government assistance. I’ve only seen it used for strippers who have 3+ baby daddies collecting checks for full custody. Bragging about buying a new Escalade while being on government assistance is considered trashy. For perspective I don’t hate the players just the game.
Who decided to call them social security moms? Isn’t social security for retired elderly people? I highly doubt these people are getting social security.
English isn't my first language
Gotcha, I can understand your mistake but the other commenter made it sound like it was some sort of widely used slang.
At same time they are the .0000001%
I think it's funny that people get mad at that but don't get mad about someone born into $50mm of wealth collecting $166,666/mo partly insured with no obligation to work or even fill out forms.
an easy scapegoat for all the things that the 1% have stolen from us. I swear the welfare moms are in the room with us right now
From context I'm guessing it is a single mother who lives off social security and doesn't go to work.
I have heard the pejorative 'Welfare Queen' used to describe this.
There will always be people that abuse benefits. There are also many people who cannot go to work and are doing their best to hold things together.
Yea, they are working and fighting hard for their children and yet they are treated like trash :(
May I ask where “around here” is?
GIVE ME THE FULL ADDRESS, RHEUMATOIDARTHRITIS
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This looks like a flag of some not American country
not American country
You mean like Narnia, Wakanda, or Wales?
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