• nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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        That’s how they tried “fixing things” in the post tzar Russia (and got themselves the USSR). The “communism” has never really worked anywhere.

        I’m sure there are many more examples of “let’s eat the rich”/“kill all the wrong ones” - getting all f. up.

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    This will surely help their demographic crisis!

    “Mothers, fathers, please work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, while raising half a dozen children for the meat grinder”

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      It’s meat grinder for both men and women, gotta make those babies while doing away with the older models

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    For one I approve. Do it Sundays too. Why not make 16 hour days too?

    If Russians don’t want to denefestrate Putin over war crimes, maybe they will do it if pushed to the personal breaking point.

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      As long as this is about people in Russia and as long as this will lead to an end of the war, I don‘t care. Seems like sanctions pressure them to suggest this.

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      Maybe we should remind billionaires that economists used to predict we’d work even less than we currently do? Keynes went as far as to predict we’d be working 15 hours a week by 2030.

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      My school tried to schedule me teaching 9 hours straight (sorry, with a 45 minute break, so a total of 9:45). Get fucked. Teaching is fraking energy intensive and I literally can’t keep going that long. Their reasoning? It’s hard to schedule the classrooms since we refuse to get enough of them, so we’ll just have the faculty and students have insane schedules. Did I mention it was also going to have university students be in class 9 hours per day? NO ONE can learn like that, but it’s really good at saving money.

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        I’ve been doing four hours teaching at a university in the mornings and six as a barista in the afternoon, and I’m fucking dying from the energy drain. Nine hours of just teaching would have me curling up and bed rotting every day after work.

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          Huge hugs all around for those making ends meet with their own two hands!

          My so-called university is run by people who have never taught a class in their lives. I’m getting out asap.

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            Good, for you (not sarcasm). I know some people teach at universities mostly to support their research, but if you’re there to educate, it sounds like a horrible environment for all involved.

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      Some 12h days and even longer I’ve done have been alright. But that’s with +50% and after two hours +100% overtime pay and it wasn’t as a rule but rather an exception for a specific week

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        I worked 12h alternating day/night shifts on an irregular schedule for 4.5 years…

        I don’t recommend it

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          That sounds horrifc tbh. For me the 12h+ shifts were just the work day continuing past the normal 8 hours and usually into the evening. Depending on the specific work pretty tiring but honestly not so bad. At least when you know it’s temporary, the weather isn’t too bad and if it doesn’t extend so much that you’ll be lacking sleep.

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            Oh yeah, it was shit.

            I manned an internal IT helpdesk with 24/7 coverage for a global company.

            This included holidays as well.


            I worked three new years eves, terrible…

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    “And the sooner we switch to this new schedule—from 8 AM to 8 AM, including Saturdays—the faster we will undergo this transformation.”

    Plus a six day workweek.

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      Reminder: When the billionaire says “we,” they mean you.

      Reminder: When the billionaire says “it’s good for the economy,” you are not the economy.

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      72 h/week.

      I have another proposal: 99% taxes above $1 million (equivalent) of income, including ALL income.

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        So, I don’t know how things work in specifically Russia, but in general, I think that it’s not so much the level of taxation as it is loopholes.

        For example, can the companies that he controls be directed to lend him money on terms that he directs without it being taxed by the Russian state?

        More-broadly, I’d guess that it would be exceptionally difficult to impose taxes on specifically him, because he’s buddies with Putin and tied up in control of the country. If the system is actively interested in avoiding taxing you, it’s likely going to find ways to not do so.

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      Sounds like America, except we also depend on war for our economy

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        Putin’s kleptocracy didn’t succeed (never had the intention either, as for any kleptocracy) in creating or facilitating of any high tech company with a global reach - like IBM, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon etc.

        Instead, Putin has been smashing businesses: Yukos (an independent oil company, though) or, more recently, effectively expropriated Yandex or VK. The founders of these businesses had to leave (flee) the country too.

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    Maybe he could try not being a billionnaire anymore and giving back his money to society, so nobody needs to work for this leech?