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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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the newest form of slavery. Subtle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Slaves are expensive, you have to pay upfront and provide "housing" and "food"; desperate workers are so much better, they have to pay for their own shit with whatever scraps you throw at them!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Slaves are only more expensive upfront. Long run it's far cheaper considering they will have kids that you then also own. There is a reason why those inbred chicken shit sister fuckers in the south had slaves instead of paying farm workers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

considering they will have kids that you then also own.

Only in the fucked-up american version of slavery. It was never sustainable long-term.

edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Brazil also had that fucked up thing. A slave's children were owned by the same asshole that owned the slave. It was only around the 1850s, decades before the full emancipation (1888), that all newborn children were considered free. It didn't mean much in most cases, since the mother being a slave meant the entire cost of caring for her kid would eventually become a debt to them