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umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoif any of our productivities matched the money we are getting, we would be earning twice or thrice we currently do. this is the entire point.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I support that. Let’s have a meaningful movement. Not to decrease our working hours, but to increase our earnings compared to our productivity.
A part of my job is to calculate the income of the doctors at our hospital.
They earn their income based on their effort. If they do an easy thing, then they earn little money. If they do something more scarce, then they earn more money. They earn money based on how many patients they help. Not based on how many hours they are at the hospital.
I see vast differences between income between doctors. Many of them are fine with working few hours because they earn enough anyways. Other doctors aim at 40k euros income per month. They work a lot.
It’s personal choice.
The work reform movement must include the people that want to work a lot.
People that are satisfied with basic necessities (I’m sad for their children) are fine enough with simple tax and social transfers. They don’t even need to have a job (they are hated by people).
But the people that want to work, need to be paid for their efforts.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
so you are against reducing work hours? humans are not made to work so hard, but you can work more if you want to while also supporting other people to have that choice.
you are talking about doctors, who are notoriously well paid and privileged. things don’t usually go that well for everyone else, and we don’t get to choose how much work we put in nor if our pay matches expenses. as i said, its rare to even be able to save.
we also have many meaningful movements to do all of that on the left, but like any grassroots movement, it isn’t financed by big capital and needs people’s support and participation.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Belgium’s population grew from 9 to 12 million in 65 years. My wife’s country Indonesia grew from 80 to 280 million people in 65 years.
Median net wealth of Belgian is 250k euros and in Indonesia it’s 5k euros.
Your perspective is the one that needs to be expanded.
Belgians don’t want kids because they don’t believe in a god. They have pensions even though they don’t have kids.
In Indonesia they are extremely religious, so they think having kids is important. They don’t have meaningful pensions, so they need kids to survive.
You’re quite mistaken.
We don’t have kids because we are financially rewarded to not have kids. I vote against pensions for this reason.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
you… vote against pensions…? honestly if you have that attitude and are in belgium you are the problem. i’m guessing the political parties that want to “cut costs” in belgium of all places are very fascist-adjacent.
all i can say is stop exploiting the third world for your privilege, because we will soon shake the imperial influence off and its not gonna look pretty for your economy.