Damn straight!

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My thing is I don’t want to be on top. I want to live in a society where I can be on the bottom and have a good life.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I, too, wish I could be society’s bottom…

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      well I said can be at the bottom. Its polite to take turns.

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  • mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same dude same. I wanna be a maillady who pets kitties and does fart walks daily to deliver mail. And afford the basics.

    Why is it too much to ask?!

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m a software developer. My old roomie is a truck driver. I’m devastated he makes almost as much as I do.

  He has to drive a truck 5 days a week the entire year, no matter the weather. He deals with accidents, annoying customers, breakdowns, tight spaces, heavy goods. Workdays often drag out, and sometimes he didn’t manage to get home and had to sleep in the truck or at a motel. People are dependant on his work, if his truck doesn’t arrive, a store might not get food, and the attached community will suffer. He takes half an hour to commute to work.

  I work from home. I have a few set meetings daily, but I schedule my time on my own. Three times a week I take some extra time to go for a run through the forest with my dog. I’m safe, my bed is always nearby. My commute is the thirty seconds it takes to crawl into clothes and to my office. If I miss my work we at worst have to delay a product launch by a little.

  I’m happy with my pay, no doubt, and I wouldn’t want a pay cut. My friend deserves much more though. It’s bananas to me that he doesn’t catch up with me despite all the overtime and such. It’s incredibly unfair.

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• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And the union would have more justification for negotiating a new even higher wage then they currently have.

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• Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s kind of sad that people are so motivated by jealousy. Like why would I care if other people have it better?

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  • toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    kids are indoctrinated from school to seek out “high skill” jobs and look down on anyone making less

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think jealousy gets a bad rap. It tells you what you want, and what you personally or society could work toward.

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    • iglou@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Jealousy and envy are not the same thing, although the nuance is subtle. What you’re talking about is closer to envy. You can be envious of something or someone without the hostility that turns it into jealousy.

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• sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m an EE with utility clients. If a lineman/wireman started making the same as me, I would feel the same way.

  All the money is sucked out by equity holders.

  This economy makes me think of Hamilton’s “Dragon”, where everyone sank most of their paycheck back into the company to get a high enough “stake”, to even get a chance at a meaningful job, at said company.

  I’m not even sure when this good little Republican became radicalized. I’ve done pretty well for myself and yet I would happily watch it all burn down to the fucking ground if it meant everyone actually got a meaningful standard of living and healthcare.

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• mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All us unemployed IT folks should infiltrate all the local jobs that are considered minimum wage and unionize them all.

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• neonix@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Solidarity!

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• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if they started making what I make, I’d see if they were hiring!!!

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly dude. If food service paid well and had good working conditions I’d love to be a cook over an office worker.

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• slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Civility is what is gained. I work for you, I drive up your net value and I promise not to firebomb your property. In return you give me enough money to survive. They’re not holding up their end of the bargain…

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a big stack of old Styrofoam camping coolers, been saving them for a rainy day.

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We all lift together.

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• hateisreality@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My thought, if you don’t think someone preparing your food deserves to make a living wage to prepare your food, you shouldn’t get that food…

  I don’t care how simple a job is time is not free, we should all make a living wage

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• wpb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or from a more selfish perspective: an increase in burger flipping wages greatly increases your bargaining power in your own salary negotiations.

  “For that wage I could just as well be flipping burgers, and that comes with much lower risk of personal injury.”

  Never forget that solidarity benefits you personally, no matter how much the owning class and media try to pit us against each other. Also death to Israel.

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• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d you are not management you should be in a union no matter your job (yes that includes cops).

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I make waaaaaay too much money for the value I provide to society, especially compared to e.g. a teacher.

  It’s something I am struggling with so much right now. A huge part of me (like almost every fiber of my being) wants to walk away and dedicate my entire life to something more meaningful, but I have 4 other people counting on me right now. In truth, I could probably still provide for them, but I wrestle with forcing them to drastically reduce their standard of living just because I am ready to.

  It’s not like I’m rich or even comfortably wealthy. But in this society, in this economy, I am certainly uncomfortably wealthy.

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• orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rising tide, boats etc. More flippant than I mean, I really do wish we could figure out a more equal society, and I do well enough. If I did worse but more people could not worry, I’d be okay with that too. As long as it was a society wide thing not just working classs gets kneecapped while the rich get richer.

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