ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
Born to Squint, Forced to See ⚜️
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 18 hours ago:
Either way, the average American worker who is salaried even earns less than $35/hr.
Countries with similar or slightly lower wage parity with us tend to work 30 hour weeks, have more vacation time, have universal healthcare, childcare, etc. in lieu of paying people such high wages. So they can still survive. In the US we have no supports like that reducing costs, and we also dont get paid well enough to make up for that
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 18 hours ago:
No, these are using the cost of living numbers for an individual. Cost of living for a family of four is over 2x higher by their same calculations.
So for two individuals making $35 an hour they would be close to affording comfortable cost of living in the cheapest state. Or it we were to make it equivalent to one individual’s income being enough for a family, they would need to be earning like 80 an hour
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 20 hours ago:
Yea, to afford a comfortable cost of living, as in 50% expenses, 30% discretionary, and 20% used for savings (emergency and retirement) and to pay down debts
- Submitted 20 hours ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 3 weeks ago:
What is the point of having a union if youre going to let union members drop dead on the shop floor?
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
They dont even realize that teenagers dont even have jobs anymore mostly
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 4 weeks ago:
TIL im “vibeliving”
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 4 weeks ago:
The world of online jobs is basically the same enshitification as online dating.
In the hypothetical sense you have the opportunity to find more jobs than at any time in the history of employment. But employers also have to field more (and mostly unqualified) applicants than ever before.
So they can find more potential employees, and you can find more jobs, but ultimately the end user experience 9/10 times is just getting buried under a 10,000 person stack of other applicants. You may be the best person for a job, but not even get an interview because the person on the other end of the machine doesnt have time to actually look through that stack.
And then worse yet, job search companies capitalize on knowing they create a demoralizing atmosphere and use that to push products on people. Resume help, professional career guidance, etc etc
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 5 weeks ago:
America was built on treating the worker badly. Most of the first people that came here were either slaves or indentured servants. Now we have prison slavery and wage servitude.
The only thing that has ever really improved in American labor is actual safety standards for work environments, equipment, etc. We do a great job of prioritizing that. But actual workers are viewed as expendable, and many of the largest employers are just meat grinders even if they offer half-decent benefits. Walmart is a good example of that
- Comment on "Whole Foods lost, the workers won": NLRB officer sides with union in certification fight 1 month ago:
Aldi is also widely regarded as a place that treats workers well, albeit below a co-op level of good. But considering its a German company its no surprise that they tend to have above average pay and benefits for workers.
The best move for Amazon would probably have been to start their own model of wage-slaver grocery mart
