this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
992 points (99.1% liked)

Work Reform

16618 readers
823 users here now

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:

Our Goals

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 29 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminder: they can be killed

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s only Class War when we fight back.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Exactly, currently it’s just class genocide/enslavery, with some of the working class applauding it

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Very important message.

The investment banker getting paid 200k per year in NYC is still closer to being homeless, than being a millionaire.

If you need to work to live, you are working class.

Some of the working class is underpaid and struggle daily, while some have more money and live fairly easy (until they lose their job). The capitalists owning the companies we work at have nothing in common with us, and they like when we hate each other, instead of them or the system.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The investment banker getting paid 200k per year in NYC is still closer to being homeless, than being a millionaire.

They are a millionaire though. It's just that that means nothing anymore.

A million bucks is a million away from zero, but it's 999 million away from a billion.

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's like the old saying goes "a millionaire is still about a billion dollars away from being a billionaire" .

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, I too am about a billion dollars away from being a billionaire. I suppose that means I'm a millionaire! Woo hoo

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Millionaires, thousandaires, and hundredaires are all about a billion dollars away from being billionaires.

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And, unironically, those bankers are all raging capitalists— ever-chasing the end-of-rainbow-pot-of-gold mirage—who fly annually to a pretentious faux-hippy desert festival modelled on communism.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Or they suck at their jobs and just want a paycheck like everyone else.

If I could get paid 500k I'd go be a banker and suck at it.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

He most likely is a millionaire. You presumably mean billionaire.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

This election in America was one side saying this to the other and then the other "owning us" by not listening

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That signature is not helping the message

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

damm. spitting facts.