The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s
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bieren@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
“The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.
Stern@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
bring back the 168 hour workweek
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
This is the worst thing to read first thing in the morning 🤮
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.
Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.
pachrist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Nah, the people who don’t want it are hourly workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, which is tens of millions of workers.
The sad truth is he’s right, but the reason is that for these people, missing out on $80 could be the difference between paying the water bill or not this month.
It’s not that people love to work so much that they hate missing a day, it’s that they can’t afford to not work a day.
drhodl@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
There’s a big difference between “want” and “have to”… No-one "wants’ to work more, but many people “have to”.
DancingBear@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Yes people don’t want to work more, they need more money. This does not translate to they want less time off…
It’s a completely backwards way of seeing the problem.
And it is completely invalid.
DancingBear@midwest.social 5 hours ago
I don’t you are seeing the issue clearly. If you don’t want a day off it’s because your wages are not high enough.
You are wrong. There is zero truth in this post.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.
We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.
Enough is enough!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Before resting I go to work tired tomorrow. After rest and go to work angry tomorrow. Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it. Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!
/sarcasm
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.