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A few rich people that refuse to pay living wages could cost the US economy &7.1 billion.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668
Here here! May it grind things to a halt.
I’m all for it and hopeful. For the first time I’m beginning to feel that there’s a real chance that even the US could move towards a General Strike before too long in response to how drastically conditions are collapsing across the board.
If working full-time isn’t enough anymore to support yourself and your family, then what’s the point of working? Workers have been getting nickel-and-dimed for so long that there’s almost nothing left to take from us and people are barely surviving. Medieval peasant serfs in feudal society probably had more free time than we do nowadays.
They did.
And this is from 2013. The last line is particularly poignant.
Speaking of Congress, its members seem to be the only people in America getting as much down time as the medieval peasant. They get 239 days off this year.
Do it, though I know the blame is going to be passed onto the workers and not the owners. People wanting better pay and working conditions are NOT the issues, it’s the owners trying to wait them out or dragging their feet on it.
Cool. Maybe if their job is so important, they should be getting paid better.
I’d imagine not having to work 10+ hours a day in what is functionally a mobile oven would also be helpful.
Not only that but almost every delivery driver I see is always kinda skipping or trotting when delivering packages just to keep up.
They either need to increase the workforce on their routes too. Same thing for the USPS in many places while not relying on part time ‘contractors’ who are just mailmen but not yet because they don’t want to pay benefits lol.
Do it.
