I mean, it makes complete sense that they’re fighting this hard once you realize their business models are only remotely viable because they exploit the fuck out of their workers.
“How are we supposed to pay slave wages if you force us to treat our employees independent contractors with a minimum level of decency? Think of the venture capital that could be lost if we don’t become profitable!”
Glad to see these companies are flailing. If you can’t afford to pay a minimum wage that keeps up with inflation then your company shouldn’t exist.
Yeah, fuck those companies. Though I did love back when Grubhub was constantly cranking out these ridiculous offers to lure customers in. That was kinda nice…
Wow this is big news, and great for the guild. 💪 p.s. is there a way to cross post or would I have to just copy paste this link? There’s a new animation instance on lemmy.film it would be great to x-post to
Yes, it is a system of slavery with wages. I refuse to work to make the rich even richer still, which eliminates most job prospects. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
It can be remedied by introducing democracy and profit-sharing in the workplace in the form of employee ownership. A well-known business of this form is Bob’s Red Mill. www.bobsredmill.com/employee-owned
Agreed. Billionaires should not exist (100% wealth tax above 9,999,999), and all companies should be owned by the employees so everyone gets an equal share of the profits.
California’s Great America theme park in Santa Clara, CA, USA - but the comic strip is from “Peanuts” and dates back to 1991 as far as I can tell: www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1991/02/07
The original author / cartoonist, Charles M. Schultz, did the comic himself from 1950 - 2000 with no assistants - so I guess this one is authentic. Maybe if he were alive today he’d be a fan of this community! Or maybe he’s just expressing a child’s point of view.
That message is spot on. It is one of the dumbest ideas capitalism brings you. Remember in the 50’s they post articles in magazines how the future was going be all relaxation and robots doing all the work.
But between Baby Boomers and conservatives along with the nature of capitalism we get this hellscape instead.
We actually have most states going backwards on child labor laws anything other than raise wages and fix this horrible economy that favors only the super wealthy.
are people really looking for this level of purpose in their jobs? my job is so i can pay for the things i actually want to do. if the things i wanted to do were free i wouldn’t be working.
Yeah, the fact is there are just some jobs that need to exist but don’t have a great sense of purpose. Very few peoples “purpose in life” is garbage disposal, but we’d be screwed if everyone gave up sanitation to seek out art or stem fields. If it pays the bills and the workplace culture is good, I’m fine with sacrificing “purpose” in my job so I can bettwr achieve purpose outside of it.
Frankly the crappy jobs nobody wants to do should be the ones that pay the best and offer the most benefits.
Construction, farming, salon workers, landscaping, garbage collection, cleaning, hospice care, meat packing, the people that cleaning port-a-potty’s and airport bathrooms. The crappy menial jobs where companies hire immigrants who speak little to no English and are paid $14.50 an hour.
My family stayed at a hotel during a house cleanup for a month. The hotel cleaning people spoke no English and immediately pulled out the phone to translate. I felt absolutely awful that I could not communicate with them. I felt bad that they had to cleanup after us. We ended hand the person who took our towels and changed the bed at least $10 a day as tip.
When I go to a nail salon to get a pedicure I give at least a 30% tip, closer to 50% as they have to deal with my disgusting feet.
When landscapers come I give them cold water.
My grandmother (lives in Toronto) had a care worker come to her house daily for over a year when she needed help putting on her blood pressure socks. The care giver was an immigrant from Jamaica. She was paid $19 per hour. Her rent skyrocketed during covid and she and her 4 roommates couldn’t afford to live. My grandmother grew up in a small town in Canada where all the money made was used to bring over any family that survived the holocaust. She said she knew what it was like to not to have so my grandmother gave her a few thousand dollars.
My dad is also an immigrant who grew up broke. He said to one of his buddies he tipped extra because an extra $5 would mean a lot more to someone else than him. I don’t know how he is today though (he’s a male Karen/ demands everything and usually it works out/ immigrat poverty mindset). What I do know is he had a business trip to Aparth South Africa once and the clients were pissed off that he had the audacity to pour his on Diet Coke instead of the “servant”.
That doesn’t prevent your work from having meaning. Over the years I’ve had the full range, from purely physical mindless labor to earn a paycheck, to projects that meant so much to me I once responded to a salary requirement with “Hell I’d basically do this for a ham sandwhich”.
It took a lot of effort, time, training, and sheer stubbornness on my part, but here I am in middle age, having finally found a work life balance that is just about perfect.
The work I do is interesting, challenging, unique, and has benifit for the entire company and more importantly, my fellow employees.
I could make more by taking different job, but the added stress, hours, and lack of meaning to me doesn’t make it worth it.
I could find a more fulfilling job, but likely at a pay cut that would lower my standard of living too much.
The important part to me is, I look forward to my work. I’ll work in the evening or on weekends a bit just because I’ve thought up a solution and the problem solving is fun for me.
Even when I have to do the shit parts of my job, it never wears on me since it’s part of a greater whole. While making money is obviously important, and a big part of why I have a job at all, just making money can’t be all of it.
Getting home at the end of the day from backbreaking labor, doing work that feels shady, takes advantage of people, or supports an industry that I don’t agree with, leaves me feeling a sense of dread about going back the next day. I can’t enjoy the time that is mine as much when I know I have to go back to that tomorrow.
As with all things this can be taken to extremes, but I think it’s great that young people care about the wider implications of their work, and the value it brings to them.
This can only lead to better working environments, and hopefully, more ethically minded buisnesses.
I have activity not applied for jobs in health insurance since I know my job would be to find the best way for the company to make money. Which I knew would be fine the best method to reject claims.
I'm working for a job now that works makes medicine for pets. I activity did consider how "evil" the company was while looking. I know with corporate life there's a little evil but trying to minimize it
But have you considered how much Return on Investment you can provide shareholders by denying people life at the click of a finger? /S
Honestly, I applaud you: more people should deny these morally bankrupt jobs. But it’s sad because some don’t have the choice because pressures put on them by our shared reality. This system shakes our humanity, and in turn makes people numb to denying others humanity.
This completely makes sense. People should reject assignments if they are unethical! It’s almost like the young generation is doing the right thing. The horror!
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