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I'm not asking to be rich.
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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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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I'd be in favor of a UBI, and Universal healthcare in addition to a fair wage at the cost of slightly less growth.
Growth of what?
If I had to guess, the growth of the 1%'s payroll.
Perhaps, but then why care about it at all? I hate people thinking that the bourgeoisie hoarding money is somehow going to result in surplus production to the benefit of all. The matter of fact is that it is detrimental to "the economy" for them to keep the proles so poor that they cannot even buy the goods and services they are producing.
But that has been the theory being toted by a certain percentage of people for the past 40 years. The whole trickle down economics. That is hard thing to get out of your head since it has been there for so long.
You are of course right, which is what irks me. It is just that the idea is wrong doubly so. First it assumes we need to continue the current economic paradigm. Further, even following this assumption, trickle up economics would actually have a positive impact on the economy as is.