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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I don't know what part of this headline depresses me the most: "52-year-old worked 90-hour weeks in an oil refinery to save money for his business—now he's worth $9.5 billion" (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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The 90-hour weeks part?
The fact that he was doing it for a fossil fuel company?
The fact that he's worth fucking $9.5 billion?

Also, not in the headline, but-

The fact that he did it back in the 90s when you could actually successfully open a small business and make money from it as if it's relevant today?

The business is a franchise called Raising Caine's Chicken, which I've never had, but if you go by Yelp reviews, it's either the best restaurant that has ever existed or pretty mediocre.

Also, Wikipedia says very little about his early life, but apparently his parents could afford to send him to a private catholic school, so he didn't exactly grow up improverished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Graves_(entrepreneur)

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went to catholic school till 8th grade. Its pretty cheap for indocrination purposes till then. Catholic high school get pricey. I certainly would have stopped after 2 mil.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the school- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_School_of_Baton_Rouge

Current tuition is $20,000 a year for high school- and he went in high school- and I doubt (accounting for inflation) that it was so much more affordable when he was a kid that poor kids could go.

But who knows? Maybe he got a scholarship. Considering he got loans from friends according to the article, I doubt it.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Considering he got loans from friends

Ain't that's literally elite signalling lol

Or do y'all got friends like and I am the only one proleing it here

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope. I wouldn't have a single friend I could ask for a business loan. Guess I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 week ago

Well I did hear that there a solution to being being poor that works 100% of the time.

Get rich 🤡

Jokes aside... These people want to blend within society so they can leech. They don't think us as the same people and they act like it when it really matters.

They do appear to hellva solidarity among themselves though while we fight each other

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

proleing it here

A doubleplusgood word