Chapotraphouse

conditions new owners to a mindset of “i did it, why can’t they”

The “I paid my dues” mantra is very powerful in s capitalist economy, both in getting lower rung workers, especially younger ones, to accept bad conditions and low pay, and as a rationale for ownership/upper management for implementing those conditions. Seems that cycle is breaking as the ossifying economy means those workers are now less likely to see an upwardly mobile path and thus less likely to suffer through. No point in paying dues if there’s no middle management or petty bourgeois position waiting on the other side.