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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yea, slaving away should be purely optional. If you love your job or you love money or you want to keep yourself distracted AND make money at the same time, by all means, knock yourself out and work 60 hour weeks.

It's a failure of the system if people have to work full time to scrape by with the very bare necessities and live in poverty, with all the nasties that come with it. America coined the term "working poor" (obligatory meme so we're on the same page)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Full Employment and Zero Protests go hand-in-hand.

As soon as unemployment figures start climbing (2008, 2014, 2016, COVID-2020) people hit the streets and cops start working a lot of extra overtime.

Imagine if people had a whole third weekend day to themselves. Imagine what they could spend their time doing that wasn't entirely predicated on enriching their bosses?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imagine citizens actually learning how politics work and taking civic responsibilities for their own interests, instead of being chained to a job for every waking moment, and so zombified they don't even know what day of the week it is.

Happy people with stake in their own community. What a nightmare for the ownership class!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

America coined the term “working poor” (obligatory meme so we’re on the same page)

It's also very American to just fucking ignore most of the world while saying things like that.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

Are you saying that the term "working poor" was coined in another country?