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I'm happy to work, in fact I'd probably see myself out if I couldn't keep myself occupied.
What I want is for the effort and care I put into my work to be reflected back on to me and my life, I have watched businesses make millions of dollars off my work alone and I have been paid minimum wage for that work.
Bit fucken' unfair ain't it mate?
We're all like minded here but the reality is that some people want work as distraction from their personal lives.
We could have it, if we grouped up and fought for it. Free humanity from the burden of unwanted labours.
You don't have to have a "job", but then your "job" will be daily survival instead of paying for luxuries.
More time/effort on survival sure (/more discomfort), though most here likely don't have much luxury (certainly not their main reason-for/outcome-of employment) unless you're really watering down the meaning.
I think you're confusing luxuries with luxury and I think you're missing how much you take for granted. If you don't work to earn money in some form or fashion then you are working to survive and it's a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death.
it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death
This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn't have to be their own).
That's why they use guns to fire people over there! /s
We have:
So yeah... one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.
That doesn't mean you'll just die though. I mean I feel for you all over there, but all alone on the savannah is probably worse.
That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though
Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you're homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.
Slow death is also worse if you ask me. "It could be prevented" yeah sure, doesn't mean it will.
all alone on the savannah
well, I may ask myself
Fair statement. Good luck!
Man, you shoulda been here. The ground was full of stuff to eat, the air was full of stuff to eat, you could drink all the water. Sometimes we wouldn't eat much for a few weeks, but we'd dance and take drugs and play games and have crazy sex to get through it. And ofc, we always had beef jerky.
Oh, and we did this all day with our best friends, who we never had to leave. It was pretty sweet.
But hey, now there are big pretty churches and supermarkets full of only half-poisoned food and billionaires and AC. Though, the air hurts, the sun hurts, the water hurts, and everything is mostly dead. So, that's a trade-off. How's your childhood best friend doing?
Fuck "sometimes", I wish that all the time.
itt: capitalist bootlickers
The image accurately depicts what would happen to 98% of all people: lying dead by the river, starved or killed or died by disease.
When I saw the pic all I could think of was the horrendous amount of ticks that person may now be hosting.
I tried to explain to my Christian friend that (if) god created the world for us to live in. They didn't create the 5 days, 9-5 work week.
Having to ask your boss to get a day off should go against every human spirit. But no. Some people will bow down to the grind (just to complain every week about the 9-5)
Does anyone even have a 9-5 anymore?
Every job I have seen in the last decade is 8-5 with (optional/not-optional working) lunch.
Plus availability after hours...
Also 9-5 has never been true especially if you commute. Most jobs are 8-5 or longer plus commute…..
You don't have to work. But you also won't have food, shelter, and Lemmy.
Antibiotics. I really like antibiotics. If I had to choose between antibiotics and internet, I'd choose them.
This world has a massive lack of frolicking. Our numbers are way down on that front and it shows.