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Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
This is the third big strike I've seen and been like "wow this wouldn't effect me at all".
Hollywood? I'd rather it go out of business.
American Auto Union? Anyone buying American cars is a dumbass.
And for this one....
Household chores? I do all those myself.
Schools? No kids.
Hospitals? Not sick.
Maybe retail workers and pharmacists. They'd have to strike on a weekend though.
And broadly I'd benefit greatly from half the labor market dropping out. Keep on striking. Never stop.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 8 months ago
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
That's why I started my comment with "I've seen and been like "wow this wouldn't effect me at all"
DarkenLM@kbin.social 8 months ago
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me."bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
Nobody is "coming" for anyone here.
I'm happy to see Hollywood fail because I don't like Hollywood.
I'm happy to see these strikes from women fail because they're demanding an end to the wage gap (aka, they want to work less and get paid the same) and yet even more draconian "safety" laws.
I wish the auto workers the best, but their cars suck and they should all be out of business.
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine being so colossally stupid that you think researchers don’t account for ‘hours worked’ when they investigate stuff like the wage gap…
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
When they do, along with other controls, the wage gap largely disappears.
DarkenLM@kbin.social 8 months ago
Oh, so because of the decisions of a small group of investors, all the workers who work on the factories just to survive are to blame and should be unemployed? And women that want to have EQUAL rights (go look up the definition of the word, if you can't figure out it's meaning) should fail because of your false opinion.
God, I've seen a lot of pathetic people, but you fit in one of the lowest levels I've seen.
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
because of the decisions of a small group of investors, all the workers who work on the factories just to survive are to blame and should be unemployed
Ideally they'd find jobs at companies that don't make shit cars when people in mass stop buying the American ones.
And women that want to have EQUAL rights
Like I said. They want to work less and be paid the same. They don't want equal rights, they want special privileges.
Happy to be pathetic in your eyes. The alternative is be a thoughtless pushover.
PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s a pretty self-centred take
Unionization leads to better working conditions and pay outside of their own membership in a “rising tides lift all boats” kind of way
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
A rising tide lifts all boats but Hollywood sucks and these strikes for equal pay want me to make the same money as them despite the fact I do more work.
I wish the auto unions the best through.
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Then you need to be paid more. A union could accomplish that.
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
That wouldn't accomplish anything because if I make more for the hours I work all of a sudden there's a pay gap again.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds like you are upset about your own career choices. Just because something doesn’t seem like work to you doesn’t mean there is no value in it. The reason they get paid more than you is because their industry generates more revenue than your and/or its shared more equally.
Who’s to say you don’t do more work because you are inefficient? What value do you add, should be the question. Everyone can add value in some way. Plenty of people can take but these people who are striking are the actual creators in their industry adding all the value.
bioemerl@kbin.social 8 months ago
Wat? When was I complaining about people making more money than me?
Again. Wat?
We're talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid "equally" for less work.
Unless you want to suggest that women are generally more efficient in their labor than men are, you're talking crazy here.
And if you do want to suggest that, you're still talking crazy.