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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When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror (i.ibb.co)

submitted 10 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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[–] t_chalco@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dumb question, what is this meme format about?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeonmi Park, DPRK defector and conservative media darling. Claims of her life in North Korea are debated hotly- things along the lines of they eat rats and the like.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My favorite bit is that she's well known for her exaggerations about the DPRK, yet will say US college campuses run by liberals "remind her of it." That's why conservatives love her so much and why she makes good money, and why other defectors have criticized her for essentially spinning tales in a way that ends up undermining actual struggles in North Korea, or distorting their character for profit.

[–] t_chalco@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, the joke here is that you've got someone, presumably a Chinese official, saying a reality about America in a startling way that sounds like completely cooked up propaganda but isn't.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would still be propaganda. Propaganda doesn't have to be false.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Right, yes, but the joke is that it's said in such a way as to sound like an outright fabrication.