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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.
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- 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.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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Most people only pay half of that and their employer pays the other half. Self employed people pay all of that, that's me. I don't have any separate retirement accounts or health insurance benefits either, but none of that is factored into my taxes.
While this is certainly technically true most modern economists believe that companies compensate for this by offering lower wages, so it's kinds 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.
Maybe put this way, if I didn't work at my company they wouldn't pay either half of the social security and medicare. So its mostly me who's bringing that money to the government since I'm the catalyst.