Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Looking for input/feedback on what work would look like in solarpunk settings (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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Hi, I'm working on a collection of resources to make writing solarpunk and other aspirational fiction easier. The idea is to put together premade chunks of writer-level research and collections of solarpunk ideas and links on different topics that might come up in worldbuilding.

If you want to see the other pages (which tend to be more link-heavy) you can find them here:

https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start

Someone on Mastodon asked if we had a page on how work would change in solarpunk settings and it's a topic I have some thoughts on so I put a draft together.

The current draft of the page on work is here:

https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:solarpunk_work

Basically what I'd like to know is what does your ideal outcome look like? If we were able to start fixing things today and never stop, what does work in this future look like to you? I've written up my version but if I've missed something or gotten something wrong I'd very much like to know.

If there is anything you'd recommend I read or include, I'd love to check it out.

At the very least I can promise I'll try to show your ideas well in my own fiction, but hopefully this resource will spread them a little further into stories that inspire others.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would expect it looks a lot like what good teachers and librarians and other genuinely useful and intelligent people of culture do, right now, every day. They teach and educate, yes, even when the curriculum is crappy, and they care, and they help and support and defend and they do their best with what they have, they do a huge amount of largely thankless and currently unappreciated and minimized and relentlessly attacked work, not for the money or the recognition, but because it's the right thing to do and it benefits society and our future.

That's real work and real progress. That's not about benefiting private equity and the stock market and making numbers go up. That's about improving the world we live in and improving the lives of the people in it for their entire lives, sustainably, on and on to the next generation and the next. That's pretty solarpunk if you ask me.

[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

I completely agree! I have much the same sentiment in the section "The work people take on despite the conditions and poor pay"