Pizza Party and Casual Fridays
Submitted 1 month ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You guys have jobs?
HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love the message and didn’t catch it on first read but on seeing it again:
“They didn’t get 351x smarter or work 351x harder.”
Assuming the baseline was 30x, which is still wild, 30x to 351x would only be a 10-fold increase. So the line should be “They didn’t get 10x smarter or work 10x harder” no?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
351 / 30 = 11.7 = 1,170%
Aedis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OK, but hear me out. What if they got 3x smarter and worked ~3.666x harder? Seems plausible right?
3x~3.666≈11x
Still doubtful they ever did even that, but it sounds more plausible.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Considering most of the bosses and bosses bosses etc I’ve worked for in my life are the laziest dumb fucks I’ve ever met … I have my doubts. There were definitely exceptions but not the majority.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I get one more return to office mandate I’m quitting and starting my own small business. Fuck this
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Unionize. At my last company I got everyone to sign an email (I just collected replies and then forwarded on) stating they would not return to office. Boss sent from mandating full week return to only one day and providing other benefits
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
And you better return to office, cuz you can’t eat our shitty pizza working from home.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
In the 1970s, Jerry Falwell figured out how to get fundamentalist Christians to vote for whoever he wanted, just so long as the candidate committed to reducing abortion access. They didn’t care if the same candidate was getting payouts from corporations and passing laws to let them bust strikes and pollute the rivers.
And this figured largely into getting Reagan elected in 1980. And Reagan busted up labor and opened up Washington to lobbyists and special interests groups, and the economy, which had a beefy, robust middle class, went k-shaped from then forward.
Falwell didn’t actually care about abortion, incidentally. He cared that the law was now forcing his white-only college to integrate black people.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
They successfully got rid of Roe, and now you’ve got half a generation of boomers with no real ideology. They’re the dog that caught the car.
So they have it spoonfed to them by Fox News, et al. without even a moment of reflection.
And now for many of the ones who might have once had a chance of listening to reason, they’ve gone into the ultimate sunk cost territory. That is, they’ve caused not only fascism to destroy their country, they have ensured that the planet will not be livable for their grandchildren.
So they must lean more more into dispensationalism and Armageddon theology.
I mean, what else can they do, admit to themselves that they’ve ultimately made miserable (and drastically shortened) the lives of their own grandchildren.
And for what?
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
“Middle class” refers to your social status and contrasts with “upper class” and “lower class.” It’s about how we perceive and treat each other on a social level. It does not refer to your Marxian class under capitalism. There is nothing between the ruling class and the working class.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In common usage, the “____ class” terms refer to income/wealth levels, and the social constructs derive from that.
More importantly, the semantics of the comment are completely irrelevant to the actual message being conveyed.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
We all belong to dozens of different overlapping classes when considered through different paradigms. My point here was that talking about the “middle class” as though it had a place in political class theory is confusing categories.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
Idk, feels like you’re desperately trying to simplify a complex situation.
Obviously there is a 10% who own half the wealth in the USA, and obviously there is a further 1% who own the majority of that, but that for the most part correlates but also runs seperate to the level of authority and influence they have.
The same amount of wealth could give them either much more or much less power in a monarchy/dictatorship depending on their lineage, for example.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You’re totally missing my point so I’ll just simplify it to: “middle class” isn’t a real thing.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
the middle class are the people who lived in all those american suburbs built in the 50s and 60s; those small, 2 or 3 bedroom houses with drab siding or brick facades that are an overrepresentation of the american landscape and lifestyle, despite the fact you’ve rarely every seen one in a TV show or film. they homes were typically affordable to the average worker but now aren’t; those are the homes of the 90% of the actual hard-working american population.
this isn’t that difficult of a concept.
the reddit forum design seems to inherently encourage nerd bullshit. tell me more about the dictionary definition of this or that.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
Because the communists were starting to win during and after the Great Depression and to keep them out of government, money was thrown around that created the middle class. And after the competition was destroyed, middle class became redundant and they started to extract no money out of that class.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve never gotten a pizza party for my overtime work. Wtf.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This reads like deus ex dialogue and I appreciate that
Frettchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No No No
We are not fighting people who work. That’s over. We fight capital! Even the CEO pays more taxes than lazy “investors”
Krono@lemmy.today 1 month ago
This is shortsighted. We need to fight capital effectively, and to do that we must fight those who actively defend capital, including CEOs.
It’s the same reason why police aren’t considered working class. Are they “people who work”? Definitely. But their function in society is to maintain the power of capitalists.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s called middle income. There’s no such thing as a middle class.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Why can’t you just write the thing yourself instead of making a repost from X?
Artisian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this meaningfully distinct from measuring monpolization/oligopolies? I can’t recall how we filter out small businesses + self employed folk (and how that plays against companies eating other companies.)
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And if you’re lucky, that pizza is Little Ceasars.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They just highjacked another metric
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Damn, I got fucked AND NO PIZZA PARTY
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
There’s something wrong about reading this on a blue checked account on a trillionaire’s social media
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
Yeah honestly I promote taking the message to the enemy directly but I don’t think I can upvote this.
blah3166@piefed.social 1 month ago
The “Middle Class” didn’t disappear, it was deliberately dismantled. In 1978, CEO pay was 30x the average worker. Today it’s 351x. They didn’t get 351x smarter or work 351x harder. They just rewrote the rules so all the productivity gains go to the top while you get a pizza party.
feel free to screenshot this post and reshare as the original, fuck Twitter 🤮🤣
… no I created this!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, yeah, but pizza!