Work Reform

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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.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

i edited my comment before your reply to note that I simply used water as an example because it came first to my mind and there are better ones

As I wrote in my edited comment (that was changed before you replied) there are better examples of my point that I don't want too much govt control, for example I wouldn't want all the farms in my country controlled by the govt

A private org is beholden to no one except shareholders

And their consumers. An orange juice company tries to make their product sold, and at the end of the day they rely on you to buy it. If enough people don't, they will increase the quality of their juice or decrease the price to increase sales.

We already had a gilded age where we learned how low for-profit entities will go. We had saw dust in bread, chalk in milk, and worse.

You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn't happen laws can be written to force them

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 12 hours ago

You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn’t happen laws can be written to force them

Meanwhile, we have "shrinkflation" and consolidation into fewer and fewer companies.

For vital services, what are you going to do? Not get health care? Not buy fruit anymore?

The natural end state of private ownership is monopoly/cartel. We've done all of this before and it sucked. Being "beholden to customers" doesn't matter much if they're a captive market, or there's really only one seller with no vote

Maybe if we actually enforced laws about competition it would be better, but good luck getting people to learn from history.