Pizza Party and Casual Fridays
Submitted 8 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
You guys have jobs?
HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 6 hours ago
351 / 30 = 11.7 = 1,170%
Aedis@lemmy.world 5 hours 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 5 hours 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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
And you better return to office, cuz you can’t eat our shitty pizza working from home.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
If I get one more return to office mandate I’m quitting and starting my own small business. Fuck this
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 7 hours 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
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
And if you’re lucky, that pizza is Little Ceasars.
Frettchen@lemmy.world 3 hours 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 2 hours 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.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 hours 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.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Damn, I got fucked AND NO PIZZA PARTY
jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 hours 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 7 hours 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 5 hours 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 6 hours 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 5 hours ago
You’re totally missing my point so I’ll just simplify it to: “middle class” isn’t a real thing.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 4 hours 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.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
I’ve never gotten a pizza party for my overtime work. Wtf.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
It’s called middle income. There’s no such thing as a middle class.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 hours ago
There’s something wrong about reading this on a blue checked account on a trillionaire’s social media
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 hours ago
Yeah honestly I promote taking the message to the enemy directly but I don’t think I can upvote this.
blah3166@piefed.social 55 minutes 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!