…And last year the CEO made $31.4 million dollars
The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states
Submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 11 months ago
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
*stole
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That’s what i was looking for. Fuck these people. Tax the rich and put in beneficial social programs, not just programs for the rich companies to abuse.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One of my favorite things about social media is how everyone is seemingly aghast at the egregious and corrupt results of capitalism, but every single election, you all insist to me that I have to vote for a capitalist as a moral imperative.
And it’s been accelerating since Reagan, but 99% of voters aren’t going to change. Ever.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You have to vote for the less fascist
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s what you’re doing when you vote Green.
exanime@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but every single election, you all insist to me that I have to vote for a capitalist as a moral imperative.
Have you ever had the choice to vote anyone other than a capitalist?
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
reagan, bush jr., trump. I wish that party could not win and election so that we could have the democrats as the conservative party and start making real progress on shifting left rather than their continual wins moving us right.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
muricaaaaaa
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 months ago
Well obviously the flight attendant job is entry level and meant for teens living at home with their parents! It’s not supposed to provide a living wage until you’re more senior.
/s
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And by “senior” we mean actually senior. Like, wrinkles, gray hair, liver spots; etc. Of course, if you’re that old, you’re too old to be a flight attendant, so sorry, you’re not hired.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Man, Fortune running articles they would have never 10 years ago, they were like the WSJ in my recollection, what pivoted?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Boomers aren’t the productive people anymore they’re now just leeches - Gen X and lower are the workers now and most of us actually give a shit.
ansiz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
AA’s CEO is a Gen X. You have a lot of Gen X with that Greed is Good crap from the 80’s
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ahh brother boomers gave a shit too. and kurt cobain didn’t exactly give motivational speeches, did he, let’s put it that way.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The benefits of incorporating in a Republican state: We can say none of our employees is on government assistance. (That’s because our state doesn’t have government assistance.)
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol are you a sovereign citizen or something and don’t recognize the feds?
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Texas Republican governors have specifically rejected free money from the federal government that is supposed to go to healthcare and unemployment and education.
The current Texas governor has specifically told state employees to avoid federal money grants because there might be “woke” requirements to using the money.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gotta keep em starving to keep weight down
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All the people making below median wages need to get better jobs.
/s. (Was this necessary?)
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
/s
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shouldn’t have been.
BaldProphet@kbin.social 11 months ago
The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i mean they can’t even afford to build their planes properly on account of all the stealing their executives are doing, you expect them to pay people too?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Flight attendant? Well clearly their mistake is not living in a third world city, they constantly travel anyway.
/s
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A full time job should never result in being close anywhere close to any assistance programs.
We’ve let our society fail all of us.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We let corporations take over without limit or recourse.
Walmart pays a wage to people whose job it is to help other Walmart employees apply for government assistance. That’s way cheaper to Walmart than paying people more. Then the government assistance comes from the lower 90% who do pay taxes.
Minimum wage hasn’t been raised in decades. It has increased a bit only in a few places.
Over half (guesstimate) of prepared food workers do not have a steady income. They rely on a few customers to tip. And very rarely have any sick time or vacation time or health benefits.
You’ve eaten food that has been handled by someone sick with a fever because they were highly discouraged from staying home sick.
whostosay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know what? Fuck this. I’m so godamn sick of seeing people say “we let this happen” as if we can just suddenly not let it happen. This happens because our current society is just a rebranding of feudalism, and to not give the rich their due on responsibility is downright wrong. We did not let shit happen, WE attempted to survive and got fucked, and continued to get fucked. I’ve seen this enough times now that everyone one of you reading this better expect to read it again the next time you or I see anything remotely close to “WE lET ThIS HapPen”
prole@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Can’t forget to mention that those Walmart employees usually turn around and use those food stamps and government assistance at Walmart due to whatever meager employee discount they get.
So now Walmart not only gets to pay their workers far below a living wage, they also get reimbursed by the government for all those food stamps their own employees spend.
Reminiscent of owing one’s soul to the company store, eh?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is how societies have traditionally operated. Far from failing, they are correcting back to the exploitative mean.
With no more free real estate to conquer and no frontier to expand into, we’re boxed in by limited resources and forced to choose between socialism or barbarism.
Since we categorically and unequivocally proved Socialism Doesn’t Work back in the 1980s, that only leaves one option.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re not assistance programs for people, they’re basically a wage subsidy for corporations.