I understand why people have to work 2 or 3 jobs.

Too often, people believe homelessness is due to some type of character flaw. In reality, that’s not even close. The top causes being…

1. A lack of affordable housing

2. Unemployment

3. Poverty

4. Low wages

“Organized labor has raised concerns that some of the green jobs created through the new law are going into parts of the country with nonunion workforces. Labor groups are in favor of updating the labor rule as a way to boost the pay for workers in those areas. The Laborers’ International Union of North America said the update would protect the wages of millions of construction workers.

Prevailing wages are the basic hourly rate of pay and benefits paid to workers in a particular area. Before Reagan changed the federal rule in the 1980s, employers were required to pay construction workers on federal projects the equivalent of wages paid to at least 30% of workers in a given trade in a specific geographical area. Reagan changed that rule so that the prevailing wage was determined by wages paid to 50% of workers.”

(via Eat the Rich Working Class Minimum Wage Social Progressive - Etsy)

Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25. This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage

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Shark Tank except the contestants are already existing mega-corporate capitalists (Musk, Bezos, etc.) and the “investors” are the top investors of the company(s) the contestants own.

The contestants have to make a case as to why the investors have to keep giving them money while being presented with every human rights violation the contestant has committed with their business.

There isn’t much else, I just want these people to get exposed on live TV so they can’t dodge consequences anymore.

Its time we squash the old idea that billionaires, and specifically giving tax breaks to billionaires, creates jobs.  That is just factually untrue.  Billionaires do NOT create jobs, the middle class creates jobs. 

If billionaires actually created jobs, then the economy and jobs would be at its all time best currently... when we have more billionaires than ever and most are paying less than 15% in taxes.  And conversely, during the 50s and 60s when there were less billionaires and they paid over 70% in taxes we would have terrible job numbers and a terrible economy... yet the complete opposite is what happened. 

The 50s and 60s is widely considered by economists as the best time in Amercia from an economics standpoint.  The dollar went the furthest, we had what was considered a roaring middle class, more people had more purchasing power, it was normal for 1 income to support a family.  Today, 2 people making $15/hr can't afford to live in major metropolitan areas.

Wealth inequality is at an astronomically high rate and we are dangerously close to truly living in an oligarchy, if we're not already.  So many of our issues we face today come back to how bad wealth inequality is currently.  We have a clear solution to this, one that has been proven to work in our own country - tax the rich.  Yet we have ppl barely making ends meet who will choose to stay in that situation and defend billionaires for no logical reason.  This isn't a Democrat or republican issue, we have a common enemy, the 1% and corporations are ruining the middle class.

Hell yeah, who wouldn't? It's the money that's the problem

The phrase “quiet quitting” is corporate bullshit. Quiet Quitting, near as I can tell, refers to the practice of just doing your job and not going above and beyond. In other words, setting healthy boundaries so you don’t overwork yourself to death. But corporate elites can’t have that. They need to squeeze every goddamn ounce of value out of you they can and at bargain rates! Quiet Quitting is “if you have time to lean you have time to lean” but said to people who are already meeting their productivity quotas for the day. I know why corporations are pushing this narrative and you know why, too. Employees who go above and beyond usually expect some kind of just compensation for the value they generated with their labor from their employers. The problem is employers hate compensating employees fairly. Hate it. Labor is just a business expense to them, and they’ll look for any method they can to cut costs and up production. So now they’re telling us that if we just do the job we’re being paid to do, we’re “quiet quitting” and therefore not actually working as hard as we should be. And by normalizing this, they convince the employees that are doing extra work and sacrificing more for the company that they shouldn’t expect more compensation, because they’re now the norm. “Why would you expect extra compensation for doing what’s now expected of you, peon?” This is a glorious example of a hypocrisy of capitalism. We’re taught that capitalism will reward the exceptional. But alas, here we are in the 2020s and our corporate masters are bending over backwards to push a narrative that excuses them for not rewarding the exceptional, the hard worker, the ‘go-getter’ laborer.  Don’t overwork yourself. Your boss isn’t worth it. 

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