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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.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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It's not really about having more stuff. It's about having power relative to other human beings. It's the raw pleasure of dominating and subjugating others, of knowing you can bend others to your will. It's the sickness of the mind which draws to itself kings and oligarchs and plutocrats.
Persons like you and I are human; we want to uplift our peers and vice versa. We evolved to collaborate. But not all are like this. Some, by whatever mysterious circumstances there may be, become the opposite, addicted to the feeling of power and influence and control, even when it makes their lives objectively worse.
Unfortunately, there isn't in society the rebellious collective spirit there once was which would summon the energy to defeat them. I love modernity just as much as my neighbor, and to a degree, that's the problem. It is 2026, and I must apologize to Marx in saying that we have too much to lose besides our chains. I don't know how much of each other's suffering we must share until this calculus starts to tip away from inaction. Given that the reaction to impending geoclimate and political doom is, in societal terms, quaint, I'm not very expectant.