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I enjoy the mainstream memes that are top ranked in r/antiwork - righteously quitting from unethical organizations where bosses routinely break their promises,

I enjoy the mainstream memes that are top ranked in r/antiwork - righteously quitting from unethical organizations where bosses routinely break their promises, labor negotiations that worked out (isn't that pro-work?), and PHB incompetence - like automation unrecognized and lost. But there seems to be a more insidious core flogging a fantasy where entry-level-jobs that should be staffed by high-schoolers have over double minimum wage compensation and full benefits. I'm reminded of the MLM (multi-level marketing) fantasy of, "forget about product orders (the real work that makes the arrangement legal), just get more people to pay you to get in your downline and they'll sell for you and you'll be able to sit back and make money for the rest of your life without doing anything." - which makes the business arrangement into a pyramid scheme. The problem with pyramid scheme MLMs is the market gets saturated quickly and runs out of greater fools willing to support it. I see a very similar attitude in the anti-work crew, where the fantasy is, "if the billionaires would just give everyone a thousand dollars a month then we could just sit back and relax the rest of our lives."

bick_nyers 5y ago
Should McDonald's be closed during High School hours as well as late at night (so that they can get sleep before school the next day)? As in, closed between the hours of 7AM to 3PM as well as 10PM onwards?
enimodas 5y ago
The point is that mimimum wage hasn't kept up with productivity increases and that all the added profit of the last xx years is going to the top of the company. Example https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this_belongs_here/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this... And that "benefits" shouldn't be something that's held over your head as a reward or as something that can be taken away on the whim of some other people. Healthcare etc should be a right, not a bargaining chip to keep the lower class under their thumb.

bick_nyers 5y ago

Should McDonald's be closed during High School hours as well as late at night (so that they can get sleep before school the next day)? As in, closed between the hours of 7AM to 3PM as well as 10PM onwards?

enimodas 5y ago

The point is that mimimum wage hasn't kept up with productivity increases and that all the added profit of the last xx years is going to the top of the company. Example https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this_belongs_here/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this... And that "benefits" shouldn't be something that's held over your head as a reward or as something that can be taken away on the whim of some other people. Healthcare etc should be a right, not a bargaining chip to keep the lower class under their thumb.