I wanna work in a library. Not much people, quiet, simple.
But it doesn't pay, like, anything.
Then again, nothing I have ever done pays enough. Not even the things that used to be considered well-paying back in my father's time.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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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.
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- 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.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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I always wanted to be a teacher. I have a passion for teaching people new ways of looking at the world. I manage a team and used to open every Monday call with a chat about science news until the higher-ups started cracking down on "unproductive time."
Then I got to know a few teachers, and the way they have to work one or two other jobs on the side so they can afford to bring their kids art supplies and science books and I just don't have it in me. Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.
"McDonald's is a job for high schoolers, it's not a career!"
Then why are they open during school hours, and why do you go there during your lunch break, Gladys, when kids are "at school" and can't "flip burgers"?
I'm glad you asked, the answer is:
CHILD LABOR
Florida: Let's expand the work experience program to backfill immigrant labor!
If a job at McDonald's doesn't pay your bills and groceries then who do you think would even do this job?
People who are already wealthy and do it just for the fun of flipping burgers?!
Maybe! I have long maintained that if I ever luck into being obscenely wealthy, I will absolutely open some manner of food service or retail establishment similar to those I've worked at in the past, but not give a fuck about turning a profit and make a cornerstone of my business telling off customers for being the rude, self-centered, and entitled little shits that so many of them are. I'll consider it a much needed public service.
I've occasionally dreamt about doing this with a bar. I picture it like the sitcom Black Books, but with booze instead of books.
They are trying to get us to accept the the new American Economic Paradigm that ALL households require at least two paychecks to exist, and 3 or 4 if you want to get ahead.
Of course, employers want us to be enslaved to them for our entire schedule, so they don't like us working second jobs or side hustle.
Time for Robin Hood economics (take from the rich, give to the poor).
If you think flipping burgers is easy, why aren’t you doing it yourself?
Pay all workers a living wage!
But if I don't have my boot on somebody else's face, how am I supposed to accept the boot on my face?
Checkmate, communists!
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