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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.
Our Philosophies:
- 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.
Our Goals
- 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 bothers me that you're being heavily downvoted for saying that direct action is more effective/important than voting, so I'm chiming in to say I agree with you.
This isn't an 'enlightened centrist' position here, just a realistic one. I will continue to vote Democrat and encourage others to do the same, but I don't have any illusions that doing so is anything more than damage control.
Our political system in the US is corrupt, not just the people within it. Changing it will require external support.
The important, crucially important part here that there is no either/or scenario. Voting is action, and if you do everything else but not vote, that everything else gets kinda pointless. At least for now, in couple of voting cycles GOP will complete their plan to destroy the democracy, and then the voters apathy will be self-fulfilling prophecy. But for now it's not there yet.
Nah, changing it will just require a guillotine and a lot of angry people.
No, it won't really, because all you would be doing is removing the corrupt people from power without changing or replacing the corrupt system in which they operated.
Systemic change happens on 2 fronts, both internal and external.