this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
1027 points (96.9% liked)
Work Reform
9830 readers
1306 users here now
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.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This honestly sounds like propaganda trying to convince people this is a thing.
Like “quiet quitting”, which is, in reality, just doing your job and not going above and beyond because it doesn’t benefit you…
IMO it's exactly that. They hardly bring up any other external influences on people's income in the article, just a paragraph or two very deep in the article.
It insinuates really hard that people have the money to spend but just don't want to spend, a subtle "killing the messenger" of people being lazy and greedy.
news is profit driven, so it literally always has someone's agenda behind it... (e.g. always propaganda) this appears to be corporate flavored
You definitely have a point which is why I try to avoid it most days.
Watch the PBS News Hour show.
It's also available on YouTube.
Speaking of YouTube, 'Breaking Points' is also a really good channel to watch for news.
Wow. I'll look into it. Ty
This is some straight up Manufacturing Consent shit that's designed to make you think being poor and working until you fucking die on the assembly line and have to have your corpse dragged into the dogfood machine by the other wage slaves was your idea.
This message is being projected to the leaders of Capitalism, not the workers. It's being said to the wrong audience.
If so, it seems like it's a wasted effort.
The leaders of capitalism are just "capitalists." And they don't read CNBC. This is an article written for middle-class office drones, because it's one of the few websites that isn't blocked by the company firewall that has something approximating entertainment on it.
By the leaders of capitalism one could mean the CEOs and/or upper management, the c-suite, etc.
They sure watch it though, as well as the Sunday morning shows.
They're usually too busy to watch videos on their web browser at work because they are trying to keep the place from burning down project wise, but sure, it could be for them as well.
It is, and what's unfortunate is that on a long enough timeline, it works.