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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.
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I love posts like this because the comments always devolve into 50/50 people who don't live in the country (doesn't need to be the US, it could be the UK or Belgium or Singapore) being discussed telling others to either throw their entire life away on the thin hope that they spark a revolution, or simply commit suicide by cop while getting shot disobeying, all from the safety of their living room.
The only people who are capable of connecting the dots already know what needs done to get desired results, either peacefully or through violence, and are either doing everything they can to make sure it DOESN'T turn to violence, or preparing for when violence does happen.
People like me can't feasibly do any more than we are without taking hits to health and sanity. I am trying to change local government, I am campaigning for left candidates, and I'm organizing local minorities and we are learning self defense, forms of active and passive resistance, firearms and team cooperation exercises, etc... And when you're caring for a disabled partner full time all that shit piles up fast. I haven't even had time to look for a job this past month.
My main annoyance is when USians shit on Russians for not standing up (many are, and they're locked up or disappeared) to one of the most authoritarian governments in the largest country in the wrold. While in the same breath saying things you just said about doing something back home.
I'm not saying that's what you're doing. It's just something that grinds my gears, and I'm neither Russian nor American. Shit is difficult when you live in countries that are realistically too large to effectively organize.
This time, though, we're not just talking about Carnegies and Rockefellers. In the 2020s the first estate has four times the wealth that it did during the gilded age.
It's not just enough to buy elections and control government, it's enough to buy all the elections internationally, and control all the governments.
And we're already seeing how in the rest of the industrialized world how far right movements are gaining traction in nations that have been weakened by decades of neoliberal policies (e.g. policies that favor private corporate interests and disfavor the public).
That is to say, watch carefully what happens here in the States, because wherever you are, they're trying the same thing, and have high tech and lots of money.
In my opinion this is applicable to virtually any political discourse on lemmy though. Overwhelmingly progressive, left leaning, politically informed.
I myself am often annoyed with the literal echo chamber effect of people dropping facts and entire paragraphs in the comments like there is an audience to be convinced, when in fact everyone already knows and has read and heard the argument dozens of times.
At the same time i don't want to engage with right wingers either, so political monoculture it is.