Work Reform

You don't understand, the CEO needs a lot of money, to bribe cops when he rapes children.

How have you been alive long enough to write this post but not see why? People exploit each other for power and wealth and so not care that they hurt people or the suffering they cause. Those best at that are the CEOs and senators and leaders of nations, the most powerful positions there are, are held by psychopaths, sadists and narcissists. They convince us all that fighting back is futile, immoral or illegal. We could topple it all and every day we choose to get a latte and spend another 9 hours grinding away our time on this earth just to stay alive.

It's all a fucking scam by rich ppl who are the most capable of the worst kinds of human beings.

Sounds like some surplus value generated from labour is being extracted by the people owning the means of production

Nursing homes are often owned by investment trusts who have to pay out to their investors based on profits, so the managers of the trust take it upon themselves to outsource the maintenance, management, and labor to other entities they control. At a healthy upcharge, the menials who perform the tasks associated are not even an afterthought. They work for a faceless corporation that is puppeteered by the same people who own the nursing home, who rents it's facility from a real estate trust they also own, allowing them to extract as much value as possible from each level of the operation while limiting liability.

I feel like half these problems would be fixed if everyone woke up and unionized. Corpos would have no leverage left.

Boomers built an economy based around raping the wealth and futures of their children, to fund their retirement.

They consistently voted for politicians and policies that would benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else, in basically every economic sector.

Of course they don't pay their orderlies well either.

That would mean their 401ks wouldn't go up by as much.

Only now that the most grotesque frontman conceivable is helming the logical conclusion of their mindset turned into policy, are they starting to regret it all.

The pathological narccisist gerontocracy society.

Healthcare is the only sector with actual job growth now.

Everything else is collapsing.

The turned the entire country into basically a big retirement home supercomplex that you can't opt out of.

Its nearly time for a general strike

Vocational Awe

There are certain jobs that people really want to do. No matter how little the job pays, there will be people willing to do that job. Often these are the most important jobs.

That's not a good match for a purely capitalist system where someone can't survive on their salary. Unions are one way to fight this. Traditionally nurses had strong unions, but these days no union seems to be particularly strong. The other way is for the government to get involved and say that certain jobs are important enough that they get special exemptions from the purely capitalist system. That could mean different minimum wages, special tax exemptions, or all kinds of other things.

My friend was the director of a daycare, and she's leaving because she works 60 hour weeks, has no help from above, and her pay is literally canceled out by sending her kids to camp over the summer. And obviously they won't pay her more. And she's the head of the daycare. It's insane.

What's not to understand? The owning class owns the facilities and sets both the prices and the wages, and they will do this in the way that maximally benefits themselves, i.e., maximizes profits. It's a really, really basic feature of capitalism (yes, also whatever super duper special unicorn flavor of capitalism you think works better than "crony" capitalism).

A job that requires wiping bums at any age should be very well paid.

There was a nurse in my province who killed eight nursing home residents at her job. She just enjoyed doing it. What a tragedy, to have someone use their power over you to kill you when you are most vulnerable.

For the paycheck thing: the daycare takes the parent's entire paycheck because daycare is so expensive because the working class hasn't gotten a raise in almost 20 years. Providers need the second job because inflation is so high because people are getting what they voted for.

All this boils down to is that there is nothing more expensive than first-world human labor. Without a doubt, nursing homes are increasingly run by sleazy profiteers, but the reason you can't easily do better (i.e. find a high-quality nursing home) is because it's simply expensive to employ enough people, who have sufficient skill and work ethic, to give the elderly care.

Yes, PE in healthcare is destroying the country in every imaginable way. The answer in this case is more complicated than get the for profit companies out of nursing homes, which is necessary but not sufficient to solve the problem. The scariest thought is that there may be no good solution.

Because it’s a scam. The people doing the actual work always make the least money.

i work in a nursing home, but im afraid i'll not be able to afford to die in one.