Cost of living is up. Paychecks are not. And workers are not OK. : aboringdystopia

[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 months ago

"Capital class squeezes the working class. More at 8."

[+] dogbert@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You may be joking, a little, but as people get more desperate they will go for whatever easy target they see. That is you, or grandma pushing those tasty groceries to her car, or the house back from the road in a town with no cop shop.

Just do everyone a favor and practice at a range, don’t simply leave it in a safe.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Printing is also an option these days, from what i read

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Buy? Maybe Obtain. Ohjyes

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago

Just stop buying Starbucks and avocado toast!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Workers' most desired benefit is fully ~~employer-paid health care premiums to offset rising costs~~. single payer insurance in a nationalized social medicine framework.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

American workers have one big complaint about their jobs: They don’t get paid enough to keep up with the cost of living.

Oh, is THAT all?

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Always has been until, you know, revolution?

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Wow, thanks for the info! We had no idea this was the case.

[+] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

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[+] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world -10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Workers should have voted better then.

This is the result of their vote and their not voting so suck it, we're all getting what you voted for.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wages have been stagnant or dropping compared to cost of living since the fucking SEVENTIES!

How many more decades will it take for you to understand that the problem is the system and the ones in charge of it rather than the mostly powerless masses oppressed by it?

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! Also, the various voter suppression tactics, gerrymandering, two party system, majority of elected politicians being in the pocket of moneyed interests, working class people being too overworked to want to bother with interacting with a system that consistently does very little for them.. I mean, I vote in every local/national election, even when it's just ballot measures, and I'm disappointed when people I know don't/ can't vote, but I also can understand why people with difficult situations don't/ can't vote.

My one exception is people that didn't vote in the '24 presidential election to punish democratic leadership. Those people intentionally chose fascism and chaos, hand in hand with the maga crowd.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing but crap bullshit excuses outside of gerrymandering and even then, if you didn't vote or voted Republican that's on you and are part of the problem/reason we're all in this mess.

Get removed off your voter roll, you had time to get back on. You don't like politicians being in the pocket of corporations, well get your ass and vote in the primaries. Oh, I have to work, MF'er polls are open early in the morning and into the evening and yeah having a shit job sucks and yeah waiting in long lines sucks balls but if you wanted to save America, well that's what you suck it up and do it with your kids in tow.

However, when you have ~40% of the population that can't be arsed to vote but complain about how bad things are for them, well honestly after 20+ years of voting, living that working class life while voting, in a state that did the attempt to suppress the vote which of course my immigrant family was a target of. I lived through most of what you outlined and while they are explanations, they're not an excuse and honestly Americans, including my first generation American self that took our kids with us to vote, are just getting what we collectively allowed to happen here.

Welcome to stupid fascist hell that Americans allowed to happen.

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I mostly agree with you. My point was, I think you get a pass if you're a wage slave. Some people work 12+ hours a day and have a hard time making time for anything outside of their hardcore work schedules. There's a level of poverty that is basically crippling. People in that situation shouldn't be looked down on because they don't have the privilege to participate in things that don't really benefit them anyways.

I completely agree that, if you don't vote, you don't get to complain. That goes for the group I mentioned above as well.

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