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    Labor hasn’t organized enough to say “Fuck this shit” and demand a livable wage in exchange for their labor.

    Meanwhile, management is salivating at the idea of firing most people and replacing them with AI.

    The ownership class needs to go. Workers need to at the very least unionize, but should also take things further and seize control of what they’ve built.

  • floo@retrolemmy.com
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    Corporate greed. That’s the reason. Has this been some great mystery for the last three or four decades? Because that’s always been the answer.

    Line must always go up

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      Corporate greed. That’s the reason.

      Has this been some great mystery for the last three or four decades?

      Nope, but pretending that it is has been part of the raison d’être of Forbes forever.

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    I did that years ago, unintentionally.

    I had been unemployed and got a gig teaching at night, it was only supposed to be a temp gig. 6 PM to 10 PM M-Th.

    I couldn’t make a living doing that, so I kept looking and landed an 8-5 gig in my field.

    Then the temp gig wanted to keep me on. 🤷‍♂️

    So, for way longer than I should have, I worked my main job 8-5 and taught from 6-10 M-Th. 56 hour weeks.

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    12 hours ago

    This article has it slightly wrong, many people I know have multiple jobs during the same 8-5 working hours.