Did you see those LinkedIn commercials from a couple years ago that were about children looking for jobs on the site, talking about "getting a headstart" or some shit?
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Who TF watches commercials?
Haven't seen one in decades
We all have those agonizing moments where an adblocker fails us or we suffer through a friend's device!
The first one at least seems to think people want the people who do work for them to not have a life. Indicates they think their customers have no empathy or class solidarity; which is probably mostly true. We use a lot of products that involve slave labor or something close to it.
most upper middle class professionals I have met in my life do not have lives other than work. they take their 2-3 weeks off on expensive international vacations, but have no hobbies and their social life is just drinks with co-workers. Work is their religion, their family, and their entire identity. Your job is who you are and there can be no separation from it.
even if they do have a hobby it's only viewed as valuable in terms of productivity. like working out for more energy/health so you can be a more productive worker. or reading non-fiction to improve your work productivity/knowledge, etc.
they 'have it all' but yet they are deeply unfulfilled and unsatisfied with their lives and think more work and promotions is what is going to fill the hole.
i just went out with a woman this weekend who is a head pharma research scientist. asked her what she does in free time/hobbies and her response was "i don't have time for enjoying life." and she was really proud of this and started condescending to me because I actually enjoy life.
I have thought this very thing with the progressive one.
Forget commmercials. Most people I know/met lately seem to think anyone who isn't working 60-80 hour weeks is a 'loser'.
working 30-40 hours now is considered 'lazy'.
Not by me! I work my 40 and the rest goes my family. I'm lucky I can get by with 40.
Met a vet doc that disparaged a vet that leaves at 5: "8-5 and then she's gone. Nobody wants to work any more"
The cold medicine commercials are big on going to work while ill. If you can't sleep because you're sick as fuck, please don't come to work and pass it to the rest of us!
🎵 SOLDIER ON WITH CODRAL SOLDIER ON SOLDIER ON! 🎶
But if the virus doesn’t spread the medicine company can’t continue to sell sell sell!
God in three persons, that's bleak.
Then please give sick pay to EVERY job. My options while I'm sick? Go to work, or be homeless.
Over here in Germany there's no sick pay when you're self employed, but there is (by law) when you are an employee.
I had been self employed from my 20s to 50s and am an employee for 6 years now.
I was in hospital last week to get my back fixed and am on sick leave for 4-6 weeks now. It's still fucking amazing to me, that I can heal up now and will still get my payment into my account end of the month.
Having things like that written into law is amazing.
Must be nice....
coughs up a bloody lung diseased with covid
'Scuse me while I go work my job assisting the elderly and disabled.
Ah fuck I hate that, when people go to work sick and infect everyone else. (Yes I understand you need to, and it's not your fault. So I hate your boss.)
The history is interesting, we got health insurance and paid leave in the 1880s from Bismarck. He was trying to appease workers so they won't flock to the socialist or social democrat parties which were booming at that time. At the same time Bismarck outlawed left wing parties. (It was a stick and carrot approach).
In 1969 we had a bipartisan left - right government ("great coalition") and they put up to 6 weeks of paid sick leave into. law.
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There was one cellphone company advertising WFH, as work from highway. I vomited in my mouth a little to think that companies would absolutely try and make my commute more “productive” rather than let me work from home.
There was a story a couple of years ago about corporations trying to get people to work unpaid hours while working from home. The logic, such as it was, went like this: if you live an hour’s commute away from work and you work an 8-hour day, then you’re actually spending 10 hours of your day dedicated to work because the travel time isn’t time you get to do whatever you want in. Therefore, since you’re used to work taking up 10 hours of your time, you should also spend 10 hours working while working from home.
It’s astonishing, really.
They got so close…
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The propaganda goes deep. Listen to country song lyrics, and what they are actually saying, convincing working class people to keep working, and buy alcohol, and not question reality.
As recently as the 90s you had mainstream country acts releasing songs like "Pass it on Down" and "We Shall Be Free"
And they got a ton of play on the radio. The former hit number 3 on the billboard country charts. The latter hit number 12 on the country charts.
Then again, the lackluster performance of "We Shall Be Free," particularly considering the megastardom of Garth Brooks at the time, was due to some stations boycotting it for the line "when we're free to love anyone we choose."
But even then, there wasn't a massive company that owned most of the radio dial back then, so boycotts had limited influence.
as an amateur musician, #12 does not feel lackluster. #100 feels like a life goal.
It's low for Garth Brooks in the 90's, but I get what you're saying.
the height of my musical career was either getting paid in tacos instead of money or getting paid in spaghetti instead of money.
i'm not complaining, i fucking love tacos. and spaghetti (though i'm more partial to cavatappi) i'm just trying to give a sense of what skill level amateur musician i am.
Somehow I'm not surprised that the music genre attributable to poor rural white folk is heavy on boot licking, especially considering how many voted for Trump.
Country music is just as commercial as any other music these days. Nashville is a machine that pumps out corporate friendly garbage.
It’s striking how much better country was when they had class consciousness
Edit: no pun intended
Well you had songs like Sixteen Tons, what else am I missing?
Oh, so many! Check out Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sixteen tons was written by Merle Travis, who’s got a bunch of other great music as well.
were those country (was that even a genre back then idk) or "folk"? I mean i think of the Guthries as folk musicians now, but i missed their heyday.
Tbh, I think they started early enough that it all still fell under the same umbrella, but folk, bluegrass and country gradually diverged between the 40-60s
i should ask my brother he plays "americana not country" whatever that means.
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Your life will be much better if you avoid commercials, it isn't difficult, they creep me out whenever I am unfortunate enough to see/hear one, they are so contrived and so clearly aimed at people who have forgotten how to think.
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