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- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 4 days ago:
Onto the mood of Hey Ya! We all need one in our lives, really.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 4 days ago:
getting progesteron :3
- Comment on Anon learns the dangers of polyjuice potion 5 days ago:
Polyjuice would be a nice thing tbh. I could imagine it being OP for people who want to permanently swap bodies. Just collect a lot of hair, cut in tiny snippets so you can last a lifetime with it, wait for each others’ hairs to grow back, and let’s go.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Time already is that.
- Comment on Name it 1 week ago:
Great game indeed, felt like it personified my experience with dysphoria, all without talking.
- Comment on Florida GOP votes up bill to allow “opportunity” to earn subminimum wage 1 week ago:
Florida RINOs*
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh…
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Why 37%?
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Just 37%?
Why not tax wealth+income above $2 million USD with a 99% tax? Someone having 1 billion then still will have 10 million.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
And tax the billionnaires properly - and if they don’t want that, make them unable to flee their capital from being taxed.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 1 week ago:
Unions aren’t even that expensive, here they cost about €4-22 a month, depending on your net disposable income and whether you study or not.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 1 week ago:
Sadly not a member of one, though I’m a union member. How is stuff there?
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 1 week ago:
When workers are not exploited, there are fewer in precarious situations. Consider the following scenario.
You have to work 12-hour long shifts, 6 days a week. Travel to and from work takes one hour each way. You need to sleep 8 hours. Eating takes up an hour (let’s say 30 min breakfast&lunch, 30 min dinner).
That leaves you with effectively 2 hours a day that’s for yourself. And that’s excluding meal preparation times, so you’ll likely prefer to microwave. And if you’re a parent, you have even less time. You also don’t have much of a “weekend” to recover. So you cut on sleep and that will directly impact your wellbeing. That won’t help raise children in a safe environment. Nor will other coworkers and people be that thrilled to deal with a constant grumpy person. And nor do you want to be this person!
Now, how much do you then make? Let’s say you make $10 an hour. You’ll thus earn $720 a week, but most of that will go to groceries, travel costs like petrol/electricity, energy and utility, and rent/mortgages. So you’ll en up with barely any reserves to stock up… so if there’s a crisis, you’re fucked, and need to go into debt - and who will profit from that? The banks and CEOs, again.
Let’s say also that there are 1,000 employees, of which 900 workers, 75 mid-range and 25 CEO-board. The workers earn $10, the mid-rangers $15, the CEOs $115 an hour. Together, that all makes $13,000 an hour.
Most of the profit made, goes to the CEOs. When we divide income far more equally and remove those excess bonuses, and enable shorter travel times by good urban planning, we can imagine a scenario like this:
You’ll work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, 30 min both ways total for travel. Dinner can now be prepared instead of microwaved, and that’s healthier and cheaper, so let’s say food total takes 1.5 hours now. That leaves you with 8 hours for yourself. Much better.
You work 24 hours a week, of which most hours now productively spent at work instead of dozing off and counting the hours. And due to co-ops distributing the income much fairer among all, you might earn $20 an hour.
Let’s now assume there are no CEOs, only workers who all can decide, although some do the day-to-day administration and can be directly recalled.
All earn $13 an hour. The workers significantly benefit, while the mid-rangers also benefit from the much better work-life balance. It’s also conceivable that with this improved live standard, they will be able to produce more, and eventually, go beyond $15 an hour for all… perhaps $20.
Hence, a co-op not only improves wellbeing for all, but also for society. Reduced healthcare costs, reduced travel time costs and waste of fuel, and so on. But in my view, wages are part of the problem; a gift economy with a give-it-forward system would be ideal, with market co-op democratic socialism (with independent trade unions) a close behind.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 1 week ago:
Only public companies have that ‘duty’.
Co-ops don’t, their duty is to maximise wellbeing for all workers in them and concurrently society.
- Comment on Anon watches disturbing footage 1 week ago:
I feel like it’d be more thematically appropriate if he choked on a hamburger. Then he’s not exactly a martyr.
- Comment on Anon watches disturbing footage 1 week ago:
I watched the Kirk one and was honestly satisfied.
- Comment on The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, the additional costs spared:
If you’re a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can’t even live paycheck to paycheck anymore
If you’re somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by
If you’re a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Debt is caused by the rich refusing to contribute. Everyone needs adequate healthcare, housing, clean food and water, transport, and a pristine environment.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Actually, now that I recall, there’s actually one.
It’s U+323BF, looks like 馳.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Yup, they stole from Tolkien’s works. Much like Morgoth, they have no creativity.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
I’m leaning to the latter, or generally being an arsebum. You don’t just invent Nazis at a rally.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 2 weeks ago:
Why not ship them into Venus’ surface? Much closer, anyway.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 2 weeks ago:
Alright, Jimbo, let’s see its atmospheric composition.
- Comment on Art of the deal.. 2 weeks ago:
Personally I’d favour an anarchist hegemony, but that’s just me.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I have that on Lemmy too. I can put keywords to filter.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Such as?
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Put in some block words and block some communities. On Voyager, you can do that pretty easily.
- Comment on Thank the lord it's over 2 weeks ago:
This decade so far has felt like 50 years…
- Comment on How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable? 2 weeks ago:
About 20-25 weeks in, depending on body shape.