the companies don't want ppl to talk about salaries, so they can pay unfair. it's okay to talk about salaries or unions.
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Totally missing the point of the meme
Also, it's great to talk to coworkers about wages. But it's rude to ask acquaintances how much they make. Just like it's rude to ask random women how old they are.
Holy shit, I can't believe I'm explaining this meme like I'm in a Dhar Mann video, are people really this dumb these days?
"Revolutions up until now were all good, except for those pesky unsuccessful ones - I mean coup attempts - but now it's time to stop. We've gained the ability to 'talk about it' since, people back then were all mute and deaf."
What is a "liberal"?
Moderates who think that capitalism can be reformed.
Not... The most universally accurate definition
Close enough 🤷
If I recall, one of the great drivers of women's rights was actually the washing machine. Not sure how accurate that is.
It isn't accurate at all. In the last 100 years, the amount of time spent doing domestic work has not changed at all. Technology doesn't drive new rights, if anything it does the opposite.
Rights are gained by organized mass movements over long periods of campaigning and struggle, not home appliances.
Kinda sounds like one of those horrid Freakonomics takes
In the last 100 years, the amount of time spent doing domestic work has not changed at all.
Are you joking? That's absolute bullshit.
Claiming the washing machine was responsible for women's liberation might be gross oversimplification but to say that technological advancements had nothing to do with it is ignorant at best.
It is bullshit that we have been lied to about how technology affects our lives. Its bullshit that people just rudely dismiss what other people say with zero curiosity and zero consideration. But, the ignorance is all on your side, goofy
Hester and Srnicek suggest that there are two explanations. First, timesaving technologies increase standards, so we end up devoting additional hours to satisfying more-stringent norms. It is easier to launder our clothing than it was before the advent of running water, but as a result, we are expected to look better and clean our wardrobes more frequently. The second culprit is “increasing individualization,” which yielded the fabulously wasteful institution of the nuclear family. With the advent of industrialization and the attendant division of labor, tasks that had historically been distributed throughout neighborhoods and kinship networks began to fall exclusively to an emerging new figure, that of “the lone housewife.” Instead of instituting communal laundries or kitchens, we reached new heights of inefficiency by outfitting isolated houses with washing machines and fancy ovens. If the familiar anti-work agenda might be achieved by automating paid work and leaving the rest of life as we know it intact, a project focused on reducing domestic labor demands a wholesale reimagining of family life. After all, “the home is not simply a refuge, but also a (highly gendered) workplace.”
Hours Spent in Homemaking Have Changed Little This Century
While the time spent has not changed, what it is spent on has. Ramey reports that in the 1960s, housewives "spent less time on food preparation and clothing care, but more time on care of others and much more time on purchasing, household management, and travel than farmwives and town housewives in the 1920s." Changes in living situations have had a large effect on home production. From 1900 to 1930, single employed women spent an estimated seven hours a week on home production. Most of them lived in boarding houses or with their families and relied on mothers or boarding house keepers for their home production. By 1965, they were spending 17 hours per week in home production. By 2005, time spent had risen to 18.1 hours per week. Non-employed men also increased their housework hours from 11.9 hours in 1900 to 21.2 hours in 2005.
Theres much, much more, studies and that go back decades.
Decades of concentrated lobbying for statutory protections, a shift in legal scholarship, and even a Constitutional Amendment and campaigning for referendum votes? Yeah, they may not know the answer — civics education in the US is embarrassing.
You forgot the rivers of blood.