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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Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well kid, it's funny that your ideea it's not applicable only if it's sapping resources created beforehand. So is a net consumer not producer. In comunist terms it's a "parasite on the workers class".

There are some key concepts you're not grasping and you should educate yourself for your own good. Things like:

economy is much more than a stock market.
producing good and services that people require is the economy itself.
politics doesn't create anything (regardless of the ideology) it suppose to find the best way to manage what has been created by the economy and society.
the reliability of a system is inversely proportional with its complexity. In other words things break more complex things have bigger chances to break.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't say politics. I said government. The people doing this kind of work will do it no matter which party is in office. And they are out there right now somewhere in the world doing it already. And if you want to cast the whole of production and distribution as "the economy" then it would take an asteroid, super volcano, or zombie plague to stop it. We aren't talking about everyone just doing nothing and you know it. People are still going to harvest food. Truck drivers are still going to drive their trucks. The method of pay just changes.

Saying the economy isn't just the stock market when the economy crashing is solely defined by the stock market going down is fucking hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said what I had to say it's time to carry on. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You could have found more respectful ways to say them.