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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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And you think that'll allow you to retire at 65? 85?
Look, I get it. I don't prioritize work over "life", but I'm not naive to believe that I'll have a comfortable retirement, because I won't.
I think the majority of us will stuggle tremendously in the coming decades.
I never said you'd be able to comfortably retire. That's another part of it. The younger generations know they won't retire at all, or at a reasonable time, so just do your 40, get enough to live, and go do something actually fulfilling.
Most don't expect to retire ever - they will work enough to survive until they die, naturally or otherwise.
Whether this is bleak realism or self-fulfilling, dangerous pessimism is an interesting question.