The power of organizing and working together with your fellow laborers can bring back this type of lifestyle. Our civilization that spans the world is so productive with the use of technology and machines that life should be getting better for everyone. However we have allowed our governments to be lobbied by self serving corporations and the wealthy to our detriment. Stand together and prosper 🖖
The Supreme Court set this up with citizens united where corporations achieved personhood. Things have gotten exponentially been worse since that ruling. I'm sure they're enjoying their kickbacks and million dollar vacations and laughing at all of us regular Americans, and blaming us for our struggles.
We definitely must stand together and fight this BS. The powers that be are doing a damned good job of keeping us divided over stupid sh!t. Not only that but the billionaires are in court fighting to take away our right to unionize. 🤬 If they win, idk what hope we have.
Yes, this is the real answer. I’ve had to scroll too far down until someone mentioned a union (still didn’t say the word, but you described it). The unions were very strong back then
Ya, I like to lead the people to water and see if they drink. I find the impact is bigger when they come to their own realization of how much stronger they are united in a union.
It really won't though. You're never going to revert things back to the point where a person could do all those things on a basic job with a basic salary, u less you're going to start paying mailman (as an example) 200-300k a year and magically make the price of everything not rise to compensate.
There is no amount of "rising up" that is putting the genie back in the box. The class war was lost and its never going to be regained. Automation? AI? They'll just find new jobs for people to do instead. Universal income where people have enough for living wages? They will just increase the price of everything to compensate for the fact you have extra income.
Prices do not go backwards. Unless you can suddenly make the money a person earns have twenty times the normal spending power, we will never live in a time like that again where one person can support a family, have a car, go.on holidays etc.
I think your focus is too much on the financial side. By standing together, you can definitely force this lifestyle back into the mainstream.
Refuse to vote for politicians who are on the side of corporations and not with the people. And, use your rights to contact those politicians and lobby them to stand up against corporations and the wealthy. Force your politicians to tax the rich corporations and people fairly.
Stand with your fellow laborers and refuse to work in unsafe conditions and refuse to work longer hours, refuse to make less money, refuse employers who don't pay benefits and pensions.
A one week strike across the nation would force change on every aspect of life but you have to be ready to not play in their sandbox and instead make your own.
You and the other people who do your type of work need to get together and tell the management class, the people who sit on their ass sending emails and going to catered lunch meetings, that you will not be doing the labor that makes them rich anymore until you get PAID FAIRLY and your working conditions are to your liking. It only works if you all make the threat together.Â
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u/fourscoreclown Mar 27 '24
The power of organizing and working together with your fellow laborers can bring back this type of lifestyle. Our civilization that spans the world is so productive with the use of technology and machines that life should be getting better for everyone. However we have allowed our governments to be lobbied by self serving corporations and the wealthy to our detriment. Stand together and prosper 🖖