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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.
- 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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I don't think any working class citizen should want to keep capitalism in any form. But I really don't understand how we've decided democracy in government is necessary but not in our workplaces/economy. Somehow the objectively flawed system needs just a few more regulations? Its insanity to me.
Co-ops offer a path towards democratic control of the economy and it is more than just idealistic.
Greater job stability than traditional businesses
Higher productivity
Higher profits
More resiliant during economic downturn
Decrease in inequality
Greater job satisfaction
https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2018/aug/why-the-us-needs-more-worker-owned-companies.html
Its just a start but what's not to want?
publicly traded companies do generally have some level of democratic control, proportional to how much of it you own.
The fact that most workers are too poor to afford stocks is one of failing to develop generational wealth.
Yes, it is a failing of the poor for not creating generational wealth out of the crumbs they get to fight over.
You fucking idiot.
the choice to have more children than the parents can afford is not everyone else's problem, the phrase "it takes a village to raise a child" is great advice for wealth concentration when taken literally (few children inheriting from many parents)