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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

All they're asking is to work at or below the amount they've lobbied to let them pay you legally, which at the federal level hasn't increased a cent since 2009.

Just a matter of showing up to a job without being able to get medical care because the industry is twisted to not address and deny care if you're lucky enough to pay exorbitant rates for "healthcare".

Simply show up for that job in a car that you can in no way afford with gas that you can't afford after eating a breakfast you can't afford.

Also, for many who do want to enjoy this exploration and are working the Trump government is making it more difficult for them to stay and work by announcing last week more than one million workers will need to leave the US first if they want to stay and work permanently. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrpz4l1klgo

Plebs are so lazy

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 26 points 5 hours ago

"Nobody wants to work anymore..." is always an incomplete sentence. "for these wages", "under these conditions", "for little gain", etc.

No, they don't, and shouldn't have put up with it this long.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

The sentiment that people don't want to work anymore is correct, but not for the reasons they're saying.

Nobody wants to do to the work of developing and mentoring entry-level hires. Hence entry-level positions requiring 5 years of experience in a technology that's only existed for 3.

Nobody wants to do the work of making a productive work environment, instead saddling one person with the responsibility of three. And not paying them appropriately.

Nobody wants to do the work of making a product people actually want to use before aggressively monetizing it.

Nobody wants to do the work of researching a technology before milking it for every penny. See: AI.

I could go on.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Work is exactly the place where I discovered that I don't want to work anymore.

Lots of people say that they want to work, but then, when they accumulate enough money to retire, not only do they stop working, but they throw a fucking party to celebrate the fact that they're not working anymore.

So anyways, if you throw a party when you stop doing something, and nobody asks, "Why are they throwing this party? It's nonsensical," then it's all a big lie and everybody secretly knows it. They just don't want to say it and stand out from their group.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

This is just my experience. I enjoy that the effort I have to give goes to doing something I find rewarding on a self-actualizing level. I live in a capitalist system, I have to make money to live in it. But the pay is secondary as long as I can meet my basic needs. It’s be cool if I could self-actualize in other areas of my life/desires without having to sacrifice that to take a “pay-cut” to do a job I love, and I’ll keep fighting for that, but this is the point in history I’m living. We realize the system prioritizes the idea that more time/effort investment now pays out in income early, then you can spend your waiting years doing whatever you want. It doesn’t acknowledge that no one knows if they’ll live long enough to get there, or what the economy will be if/when you do. I might live to 100, I might die tomorrow. I could try and find a job that would earn enough tomorrow to finance the idea I spend the last 40yrs of my life living without having to “work”. But I’d rather spend my days doing what I enjoy doing covering my basic needs until the day I die, whenever that comes, than both resenting what I’m doing and only doing it in the hope someday I never had to do it and lived carefree, knowing I could easily die without ever self-actualizing. Live the reality you want to live while making due with the reality you’re forced to endure, but don’t live shit for one that might never come no matter how hard you sacrifice your now for.

The value of money and the future aren’t real, only the time you have moment to moment are; use it the best you can and hopefully your choices result in actual reward.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 hour ago

Once people retire they often create their own work to do. And often the people who do stuff like volunteer live longer than people who don't.

People like doing work, but they don't like being exploited.