Nobody wants to be paid minimum wage standing on their feet for 8 straight hours with a 5 minute break while a bunch of over-entitled Karens yell at them because an expired coupon won’t work.
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Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
"Nobody wants to work anymore..." is always an incomplete sentence. "for these wages", "under these conditions", "for little gain", etc.
No, they don't, and shouldn't have put up with it this long.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 hours ago
"But at least you have a job!"
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My mom says this shit all the time. “Just be glad you have a job” is like excusing being in an abusive relationship because being single sucks
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is something the lockdowns taught people. That not having a job isn’t actually worse than the shit jobs they were forced to do.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
They put up with that condition because there’s no alternative at the time. Until gig work like uber and food delivery came along, which people realise paid more than those other dead end job does, so they flock to these jobs. Now the dead end job that pay minimum wages aren’t competitive enough, and can’t hire anyone, hence the saying.
Not saying gig work is good in the long run, but to people who have literally no other choice, it’s a godsend, a chance to earn more for the effort and time they put in.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 hours ago
You're right. "All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." People deal with shit while they can, rather than changing.
But the phrase mentioned is an old one used against people who finally had enough for whatever reason, and always leaves off why they've had enough, and what gave them enough motive to change to something else. One could say that the increase of "nobody wants to work anymore" is a signal of a new wave of quiet rebellion.
The lesson is that people shouldn't have to settle for things because they don't have a choice. In anything. Work, relationships, health, food.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Declaration of Independence mentioned.
Also, from Shakespeare: “The undiscovered country from whose bourne | no traveler returns puzzles the will | and makes us rather bear those ills we have | than fly to others that we know not of. | Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.”
By the way,
> The lesson is that people shouldn’t have to settle for things because they don’t have a choice. In anything. Work, relationships, health, food. The original liberalist philosophers argued that if one is constrained by lack of available choice, then they are not truly free at all, and that true liberty requires equality for this reasons. That’s why I say neoliberalism isn’t even liberalism. Maybe call it pseudo-liberalism. In any case, it’s a conservative economic policy. True liberalism is a humanist political philosophy. People who don’t know anything about it look at me like I’m crazy whenever I say that. “Hurr durr, ‘liberal’ is in the name.” You know when fascists and tankies agree on hating something, then it must be doing something right. Also, when tankies curse “liberals,” they’re talking specifically about neoliberals, so it’s really a misnomer. Funny enough, when fascists curse “liberals,” they’re talking about Marxist-Leninists (who obviously are not liberals). So it’s like actual liberals are caught between these two extremist camps, and both sides view them as the other side because they can’t see through this false dichotomy and anti-nuance campist polarization. So obviously to tankies, liberals must be fascists; and to fascists, liberals must be commies. And liberals are just like, “We’re neither. You’re both assholes.”
Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Thanks for that on the label "liberal". I grew up thinking of myself as a Gen-X liberal, and somewhere along the line missed it changing meaning. So for the longest time I'd hear it referred to negatively and by certain groups, and was so confused. I hate labels. I prefer to discuss ideas to understand the true meaning, and the online culture has slowly killed that form of communication.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Followed by the implicit “… and I should be exempt from this, I need a $200k wage with $1 million hourly bonuses.”
Labour rights apply to everyone.