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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.
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- 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.
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When you're told the economy is doing great this is what they mean. It's a bad message to send in an election year.
Bidenomics is working! Why aren't you people happy?!
Bidenomics is based in Reaganomics. Only it doesn't hand social program budgets so quickly to the religious ministries to spend on megachurches. The public hoped for a Social Democrat, but the establishment party chose another neoliberal. (In 2016 the Dems lost to an open fascist — with a majority, but losing the EC — because a conservative neoliberal woman President was too spicy.)
Even in the 1800s railrod barons owned all the candidates in the primaries. So we can't redistribute wealth by vote.
It does show capitalism gives us its true colors during the Great Depression. Our ownership class will gladly see us starve and freeze than give up their vast holdings. They'll hire armies and lawyers alike to keep wealth they cannot actually utilize (except to gain more wealth) even if it drives the human species to extinction.
And the longer it takes for the public to fight back, the higher the global catastrophic risk.
This, however, isn't to say we can choose revolution at any time. Violence remains unthinkable until the hour it is inevitable; until the hour we find our Mahsa Amini, we can only stir and wait.
Original Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfp-QsH51w&t=1707 Piped Link https://piped.video/watch?v=aDfp-QsH51w&t=1707
This is relevant to your point that the American Democratic Party hates lefties and endorses neoliberalism. I hope it is helpful.
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Yeah, I do that a lot.
Legit best response. Got a hearty chuckle out of me.