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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Our Goals
I'm so glad not to have been born in that shithole country.
I am so fucking glad that fate lifted me from out of my shit hole home state to Chicago 15 years ago. I count my lucky stars everyday and night. I hope this shit inspires my younger brother and his fiancee to think of the future of my 3 year old nephew and get the hell outta there, but my brother is employed by the VA, so no telling how long he'll have the financial meane to do so even if he wanted
St. Augustine, 2027
(Yes the 'women' in the picture are children)
Jacksonville:
This is the type of Family Values I VOTED for!
-Republicans attacking Trans People for being Inappropriate for Kids
America is becoming the most vile country on the planet.
You fucking idiots voted in an orange muppet rapist who’s being controlled by a Russian dictator while sending secret communications between a drunk ex showman who now runs the military.
You get what you voted for. Enjoy having your kids in blueberry fields and coal mines to continue building wealth for the rich for penny’s.
Pathetic. America is pathetic.
Yeah, but his competition laughed a little too much or some other bullshit reason so we couldn’t have elected her.
The people who purposefully didn't vote are the real fucking idiots.
There are a bunch right here on lemmy that took a "principled stance", and fucked us realllllll fuckin hard.
Anyone who didn't vote is fucking stupid as shit.
Those are the ones I truly hate. the MAGA I understand but the non-voters are the ones that piss me off.
Meanwhile, those of us that most definitely did NOT vote for this are faced with new horrors every day, right here in our own country. It's just a blast watching our former allies shutting the door and giving the entire population the finger when we are facing a crisis like this. I have to wonder, was this what it was like during the Nazi's rise to power? Did other nations turn a blind eye and say "not my problem"? Now the formerly so called leader of the free world has been taken down by the oligarchs and so many countries and people are saying good luck, get fucked. I guess it's fine to overthrow some back water country in the name of "democracy" but the US can rot right? Not like this will have any impact on global relations or climate change, right?
To be clear, I'm not attacking you, I'm just frustrated to see this happening around me and seeing so little support for the people here that want absolutely nothing to do with it. There are a lot of people here that don't deserve what's coming, that have voted, campaigned, protested and argued against it, and I really wish people took the time to understand that nuance to not just this situation, but everything.
To those that lend encouragement and support to anyone standing against this, thank you, whole heartedly, because we absolutely need it.
Also, there was a shit ton of shenanigans going on during the last election. Other countries boycotting our products will absolutely help us. If it costs the 1% money, he will be taken down a notch. The oligarchs are in this for the money after all.
It's easier to roll into an underdeveloped nation than into the nation with the biggest military (and economy I think?) in the world!
Best we can do from the outside right now is help you guys help yourselves, by showing you that the last choice was a bad one so you may make a better choice next time. At least that's all we can do officially and publicly.
I doubt there will be a true next time. Trump own all of the swing states which was real weird. It will be done on a larger scale next time. The only way we will get out of this is blood.
Had you fooled for a while though, didn't we? 👉😉👉
Always has been.
This is targeting the children of the poor.
Of course it is, same as it ever was. Want to help your parents, work overnight at the slaughter factory, sleep in school and quit your extracurriculars. Lose a finger, well they followed Florida safety laws use your health insurance.
"People don't want to work anymore." in one hand. "Children can help fix the labor shortage." in the other.
Just ways to beat people into submission with whatever words sound good in the moment.
No one wants to work. It's true. We are all forced to work and the people who don't see this are also the ones at the top who don't do actual work.
Back when TED Talks were all decent and not a money grab, I saw one presenter talk about the coming automation and the need for economic safety nets, and he brought up a good point. Man has tried to minimize work ever since the beginning, but just as we get to a point where most people could eliminate it altogether, we want to hold onto that last little bit. Some good reasons, but most are centered around the need for income and the need for identity, which aren't great ones. He mentioned the phrase "working for a living", which can also be termed "having to work to be alive", both in the necessity of income and in the Puritan way of seeing people that don't have to work hard as worthless.
People should be able to work on things for pleasure or creation or even some other type of fulfillment, but not because without that work they aren't people. Yet that's how society views work. "What do you do" is a much more common casual intro than "what are you interested in". And there are arguments about how we can even get to a point like that, if such a utopia is just that, a fantasy. But we sure aren't trying hard to put systems in place to help us get there, at least not the ones that help the people who are hurt by things like automation (which is its own debate, of course).
“…always has been.” 🔫
"People don't want to work anymore [under these conditions and for this pay]"
Children though have less of an insight they're being screwed over, and if the laws and parents match up, they have no say anyway.
Kids would yearn for the mines if only they were forced to experience them.
The children yearn for the mines!
It's what Minecraft was made for, training.
All our elevators are garbage because the children refuse to mine straight up or down