- cross-posted to:
- socialism@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- socialism@beehaw.org
Better Title:
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
Better Title:
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668
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.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-great-debate/column-why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you-idUKBRE97S0KU20130829
And this is from 2013. The last line is particularly poignant.