"How dare kids today want more time off. They're just lazy" - Debbie, 68, retired.
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Former occupation:Stay at home housewife.
What, you don’t think there’s work to do for a stay at home partner? From my observation, it’s one of the hardest jobs there are (that is if you actually take on all the home keeping duties as part of this - I’m not speaking about trophy-partners here).
We're not going to get it while there are enough stupid Americans to get distracted by culture war bullshit presented to us by the ultra-wealthy and political elite.
America is a corporate captured state, and its only captured more and more since Citizens United.
and you think they're going to suddenly turn around and stop using you as indentured servants?
do you forget what the Republicans think of Europeans? they're libruhl socialist cucks, remember?!
Germany has it figured it out. Come on America, copy the good things not the historically appalling.
Our dipshit chancellor, Monty Burns, is trying to screw this up for us all. Fortunately, we have many strong unions that all tell him to get fucked.
No but you see having to do a bullshit job all day almost every day is when life has meaning. How would life have meaning if I wasn't doing a bullshit job all day almost every day?? That's when life has meaning!!!
Jacobin writers must have the nice life of not being a debt slave.
Ok, crab in bucket. Way to completely miss the point.
The most obvious indication that "representatives" only represent capital... They never talk about 4-day work week. NEVER.
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Americans certainly do,its fucking shocking how little time you guys get off
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Yeah, considering how much more efficiency we've gained, we should all be working much, much, much less.
And not just the obscenely rich parasitic class of billionaires like fElon who supposedly do "work" running/ruining companies like xitter and Tesla, etc...
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We deserve way, way, way more dead politicians and ceos to enjoy our time off.
If we could stop arguing about literally everything else, no matter how important you think the issue is, we could really, really spread this message and have it stick across America broadly. At least the idea that we deserve more back for the amount of money we have cut from our work and lives to pay for the government, and the obscenely wealthy are the real enemies.
I encourage Lemmy readers who aren't completely stuck up their own ass, to make THIS the driving message we take into the next decade and beyond, because it will take that long to shift this from an identity/ideology war back to the class war it really should be. If we can drive even SOME of the money out of politics and start demanding things like union protections, fair wages and guaranteed benefits, we could restore a lot of American might and start pushing the needle left again.
We don't get to the finish line without circling the track, no matter how tiring it is. Nobody is coming. No charismatic leader is going to appear and suddenly lead everyone in a revolution and change everything overnight. We HAVE to stop feeling entitled to the perfect outcome, we have to work for that.
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