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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Personally, I don’t mind doing an reasonable amount of work - it can be cathartic like exercise or give a sense of purpose. The problem is, the employers want people to be like hamsters on a wheel, driven to exhaustion and then disposed of for the next rodent to be worked to death.

  Workers are being abused - ghost jobs, inconsiderate scheduling, impossible requirements, no overtime pay, manipulation, and so forth has corroded the social contract. At some point, there is just no point in working.

  I belong there, as would many other people, if society was willing to treat us fairly.

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  • HookedSiren@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree. I wasn’t trying to shit on the job itself, but point out how fast food workers are treated. If fast food workers were treated like human beings, i bet people would love to work there.

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• listen1377@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t care. I don’t eat fast food. Let them go bankrupt for all I know.

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  • trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I don’t do something, than fuck everyone who does it, let 'em burn. Definitely big brain time.

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    • 3abas@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The root cause of the problem IS the mega-corp fast food chain that sells us expensive shitty unhealthy food and pays slave wages to its labor force that it treats like annoying obstacles and constantly threatening to automate away. They take away jobs from real restaurants too, until they shut down, and all you have left is fucking McDonald’s.

      Dismissing that people work there out of desperation is out of touch, but to disagree with “let fastfood restaurants go bankrupt” is where the REAL BIG brains are at.

      Why can’t we just have a discussion without insults. These corporations are the problem, convincing them to pay you more until they automate you away is not a solution, the solution IS for them to be bankrupt.

      I also don’t eat there, and think it’s morally outrageous to give them any profit that helps them achieve the distopian future they’re working so hard towards.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why can’t we just have a discussion without insults

        Let’s be honest, “I don’t eat fast food so they should be allowed to pay slave wages” isn’t really a compelling discussion with nuanced talking points.

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      • XnxCuX@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Close. The issue is corporate socialism

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      • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        there ya go. here’s a guy/gal who understands the issues.

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    • listen1377@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you care so much, go pay em, big brain man. Or you just good for blabbering on the internet, as all good for nothing leftists.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Brother if you’re ever in the UK I’d love to link up and see if you’re so quick to talk to people like shit IRL, cause you’ll quickly get your shit rocked.

        HMU if you ever in Manchester.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You seem really offended at the idea that “someone who works a job should be able to afford living” for some reason…

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• ghterve@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, nobody has to. The problem of them under paying would solve itself if nobody was willing to work for them at those low wages.

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  • HookedSiren@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe if we had UBI or something, which is why the powers that be are so against it, because being homeless and hungry are powerful motivators to put up with more bullshit.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Collective action? Now that sounds like communism to me…

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