Not incorrect, Jeff Bezos is working fewer than 4 days a week and fewer than 8 hours on a workday.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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If only this picture had the next paragraph...
"There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley's Brave New World. But most futurists believe that work will still be the only way to gain responsibility and power."
For reference, $30,000.00 in 1966 would equate to over ~$285,000.00 in 2024's USD.
They're right.
We could do this.
We just don't.
And it would even be better for the planet
The timeline where Reagan didn't fucking gut the unions.
I'd say in a given week I do maybe fifteen minutes of real, actual work - Peter Gibbons
I would encourage almost any American to get a remote job (or three) and move abroad to a country that has a visa for remote workers and good healthcare. It might be the only way some workers will be able to save and retire some day.
damn this sounds like a lovely world where republicans ceased to exist since 1967
Billionaires and bastard corporations: Yoink
Greed? No no, these are just our record profits! Invest. Now.
By the year 2040, you'll eat bugs on your way into your 16 hour job making 13 Bezos bucks an hour and you'll love it because the serotonin patches and nightly dream implants (implant so that you dot wake up while your frontal cortex is being used to mine doge coin).
I hope you don't mind, I just went to your profile and clicked "favorite"
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The best part is, for every 10 commercials you watch in your sleep, you get up to 1 dream back free at the end of the month!
The "up to" makes this particularly depressing. And realistic.
Well, naturally they have to deduct for uninsurable dream content like trees and sunshine. That kind of dangerous content needs to be distilled before it reaches you by choosing a secure dream provider. We're trying to protect children here.
Hey they were close! We make 30-40k in (2024 Dollars)
That was for nonworking families.
The sheer amount of jobs that post that range as the expected salary is insanely depressing and disgusting...
I don't think people truly understand just how much of our economy operates with those pay scales. I'm uneducated so I don't have a specific industry to get tunnel vision with, I see a broad range of jobs and holy shit it is gross what is being "offered."
On a side note, my friend in computer science just mentioned a coworker who makes over 150k is quitting because he has too much down time at work. Just kill me already, I've had enough torture...
Is the takeaway from that site unpegging the USD from gold caused the current wage crisis?
Pretty much its about the federal reserve, unpegging from gold just let them go hog wild. Inflation is the best tool they have because it is taxation that the poor and middle class dont tend to notice.
The late 60's is when George Welch became the head of the GE plastics division, in 71' he also became the head of the GE metallurgy division. Throughout the 60 he developed and popularized "rank and yank", basically firing 10% of your lowest performing employees on a regular basis.
The idea of corporate having loyalty to their consumers and workers died at the hands of George Welch. The obsession with quarterly profits, paper profits, and maximizing short term gains are all basically the invention of this one little man.
He was made a titan of industry for parting out one of the most iconic and profitable businesses in US history. Pretty much every CEO has walked in his image since, despite the fact that he ran He into the ground.
The naivete is hilarious.
This would have happened if Reagan hadn't sunk that ship. Now realistically, if it hadn't been him it would've been someone else. Politicians are cheap.
It was rigged against us from the beginning. Reagan didn't help, but he was only one more straw in the pile of bullshitters.
The concessions granted by those in power to the people are only meant to keep them in check, not to fulfill all of their needs. If our needs were met, there would be little incentive to slave away most of our lives.
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