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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What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. (www.cnbc.com)

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Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.

About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.

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This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.

Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

It's ok! Don't ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we'd have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered that some people might actually enjoy their jobs?

I'm not saying you do but that's fine, but you're pretty much saying that working has to be boring and undesirable, which it absolutely doesn't have to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying you do but that's fine, but you're pretty much saying that working has to be boring and undesirable, which it absolutely doesn't have to be.

I'm saying nothing of the sort.

All I'm saying is that if you're working at a job, you're being paid to do what your employer asks you to do. If you happen to enjoy it, great, but that's incidental, your only choice is to keep doing what they want or to stop and then stop getting paid.

If you don't have to work, though, now you get to choose what to do with your time. And if the thing you'd most want to do with that power of choice is to give it right back to your employer, then idk...just seems sad to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

What's you opinion on volunteering then? Maybe people do it because it makes them feel good that they're doing something they want to.

And they're not getting paid to do it.

Why not do something you enjoy and get paid while you're at it?