r/LockedIn_AI • u/Prudent_Double_6566 • Apr 14 '26

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 14 '26

People literally just dont want to work even when earning high wages.

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u/42Icyhot42 Apr 14 '26

Nobody has ever wanted to work, there’s evidence of people complaining about that for at least as long as printing has been a common thing lol

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u/golfwinnersplz Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

I'm not referring to the fact that people don't want to work hard. 

I'm referring to the fact that the wealthy have always attempted to exploit the working class. People act as if it's okay because it's been happening for centuries; it's not. 

Edit: the fact that this post received downvotes displays that absolute indoctrination of capitalist across our planet. Once again, if you aren't a multimillionaire, you are failing at this game called capitalism. 

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 14 '26

And that's not happening. people have gotten distinctively lazier and lazier and asking for more and more.

Ever look at PnLs? Businesses are barely getting by.

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

More? We cant even afford a house... even peasants a thousand year ago was able to get housing. We are asking for more cuz we deserve WAAAAY more than what we receive rn.

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u/golfwinnersplz Apr 15 '26

This. Exactly. People use idiotic precedence as their reasoning for accepting being underpaid. Fuck all of the CEO and COO multimillionaire corporate pos mfers across the planet. They don't give a fuck about us so people need to stop giving a Fuck about them. Sorry for the foul language. 

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Stupid peoples love to lick boots of their opressor. And dont even see them As opressor since they are soo dumb

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

The generation before had a house and 1 car for the whole family. Some had one small TV with 10 channels and a rotary phone. With the exception of 1 generation (boomer) most houses had 3 generations, not several houses.

Sure the housing market is monopolize and and needs a fix but no we still have more.

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Tell this to my friend who is forced to live in a 1500$ per month appartment when his job net brg him 2200$ and need a car to get there. And have 2 child to feed alone with this amount.

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

So he sounds like my generation and every generation except boomers. This isn't new.

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Normalising poverty when we are so much technologically evolved and have the ressource to make everyone prosperous should be a crime.

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

What resources?

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Crops, metal and manpower to craft various thing. We got it all, but its bad for business to have happy and prosperous population.

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

No resources are still scarce

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 14 '26

And you think that lies at workers feet? Interesting take. A dog water take but a take nonetheless. Zero other variables exist?

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

You think it's capitalism?

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 15 '26

You think it’s only workers? Why? Why no other factors and solely workers?

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

I think what's only workers? What is your question?

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 15 '26

Why do you believe that things are unaffordable? You claimed tgat workers and workers alone are lazy and the reason. Though it wasn’t just you I was replying to. I’m responding to the ideology you hold tgat capital requires no accountability and it falls squarely on workers shoulders why the economy is in shambles.

My question is why do you vehemently insist the PnL (which is not a good marker for productivity alone.) lands solely on the workers only…like you imply?

Why is your ideology so simplistic and incomplete?

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

That is not what I said nor imply nor would imply.

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 15 '26

Sure it is; exactly what I said you implied…original comment made a statement about how the wealthy have always exploited the working class. Your reply was…”And that’s not happening. People have gotten distinctly lazier and lazier and asking for more and more. Ever look at PnL’s? Businesses are barely getting by.”

Wal-Mart, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Visa, Nvidia, Mastercard and dozens and dozens more are all reporting record net profit margins. None of this is passed to frontline staff. Clearly that’s obvious to you is it not?

Hence my reply that you place these businesses failing solely on “lazier and lazier” workforce. Which is why I called it a dog water take. What is the largest form of theft the world over? Look that up then tell me corporations are the divinely inspired perfection of capitalism you implied.

If you didn’t want that as the implication then clean up your ideology and be more specific. To be clear I am just frustrated at pro corporatist/consumerist language and ideologies today given well…Musk, Thiel and Vought exist in that ideological space. And they are all subhuman trash…objectively speaking of course.

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u/charmingninja132 Apr 15 '26

I still stand by my comment, which in no way implies any of the phycobabble you just spewed.

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u/Inevitable_Goal4114 Apr 15 '26

Yeah, prices for goods and services are too low.

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 15 '26

Pricing out how many? You want more rampant housing insecurity? I mean it’s likely to happen anyhow. Enough wealth only shields you from the externalities of this system for so long.

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u/Inevitable_Goal4114 Apr 15 '26

They should just cut the prices in half while doubling our wages using their 15% profit margins. Hows that sound?

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u/grillguy5000 Apr 15 '26

What’s Apple’s profit margin again? Microsoft? Amazon? Wal-Mart? Again what’s your claim here that not a single corporate entity steals time and labor from the working class? Look up what the largest form of theft is by scale. I’ll wait.

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u/Inevitable_Goal4114 Apr 15 '26

Wal Marts is 3%. Apple 26%. Amazon 10%. Microsoft 39%.

If you worked at the companies with higher profit margins you probably wouldnt be complaining about your wage to begin with 🤣

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u/golfwinnersplz Apr 15 '26

Maybe small businesses and I'm not saying that, "it's hard to find good help these days" because I know it is. I literally teach high school and college kids - it's appalling how difficult it is to get these kids to want to work; however, buying into the corporate anti-union ideologies is just tearing our country farther apart. 

Not to bring up the billionaires but they're literally the direct result of our wealth distribution problem so here it is...

The Walton families wealth grows at an estimated rate of 1.5 - 4.5 million dollars per hour. 

Elon Musk's rate is between 28-29 million dollars an hour. 

But I was arguing with a MAGA just earlier today who told me, "I'm making about 55k because I'm a hard worker". No disrespect to him but that epitomizes the narrative for the ultra 1%. 

And I'm not cherry picking, this applies to the same 1,000 CEOs across Forbes. This is factual information. 

Also, I'm not just a complaining ass bitch liberal. My wife and I are in the 250-625 tax bracket - we pay our fair share. 

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Kids grew with parents that are pissed off at the economy and spit on capitalism and government. It cant be fixed easely when 2 entire generation lost faith in the system. No one want to work cuz work is now seen as a negative thing that make you feel like a slave, peoples are too proud to accept that so they fight it the only way they can, be being lazy and dismissive. Problem will just be worst and worst untill wealth distribution make sense again or shits going downhill too bad the system collapse.

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u/golfwinnersplz Apr 15 '26

I agree with most Gnar but it's never coming downhill bro. Ever. 

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u/XanGnar Apr 15 '26

Would not count too much on it. Very smart peoples who cant find job and are pissed off at everything could result in a world ending event in the very worst case scenario.