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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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And yet people still work as "Cashier" if they can get the job,
Wonder why...
Oh, wait, it's because the alternative of having no job and no income IS EVEN WORSE.
Welcome the Capitalism!
True. Very true. But the solution to that problem is a completely different conversation than what we have been having in this thread. That conversation starts with a "citizenship dividend".
Democracy takes the political power of the individual, conveys it to government, where it is used to provide all manner of services. Those services are available to everyone, but they are not utilized equally by everyone.
The individual is not currently compensated for the use of their political power. We are taxed proportional to those services that we use, but those taxes don't make it back to the source of the power that enabled those services.
That should change.
Each of us should be individually compensated for the government's use of our political power. We should each receive an equal dividend. The most common term for this dividend is "Universal Basic Income", and it should be enough for the food on our tables and the roofs over our heads. We should receive that income before we get out of bed on Monday morning. The 40 hours we typically work in the week should not be for basic subsistence, but should be entirely gainful.