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Unless there is an universal income, and unless entry jobs can be better paid with 20 hours, that's how it is going to be. Employers have this mentality of wor
by jokoon 5y ago
Unless there is an universal income, and unless entry jobs can be better paid with 20 hours, that's how it is going to be.
Employers have this mentality of workers either work 40 hours or are not hired, it's all-or-nothing.
So if workers CONSENT to do all the work and get all the money, it's only fair that a fraction of that money is sent to those who have no work and no money.
Workers have a better chance of negotiating their work time than the unemployed. And if they can't because they will be replaced by somebody else who will work 40 hours, then it's a political problem that needs fixing.
But meanwhile, I'd rather get welfare than suffer at work. It's not like capitalist society has a sense of "community", so I don't feel like there is a need to participate.