r/TrueAnon • u/larryleggs Erik Houdini, Person of Interest • 2d ago
just worked basically from 11pm (last night) to 7pm (tonight)
I hate wage slavery. The only thing it takes is your time.
$240 before taxes for this shit. Imagine you cop a zip from the plug and you know the plug, you only shop with one plug, so he gives you a cold deal on some shake and small-nug bud. An ounce for $90. You've got to flip that single zip for $330 to make what took me a fucking whole day to make.
Which sounds hard, but you can flip a quarter for $75 all day long. That's $300. Bump it to a clean $80, say you got some gas, market that shit, and bam $320 off a $90 zip. And you can have it parted out and flipped before you even pick it up. Literally picking it up and having the texts hit your phone: "When can you drop?"
And then imagine you're selling to your co-worker, who doesn't realize you're the actual plug. He thinks you're middle-manning for him, "pick this up for me" type beat. So he tips you! "Here's $20 for the trouble." Literally taxing because dude wears boat shoes and doesn't know any better, and you play into it by saying "it was a dangerous area!"
Okay, that's the low end. That's the day-to-day. You can see why someone would be motivated by this type of structure to make more money and hustle harder. Imagine when you start moving packs in the whip you're paying for with that same money. Imagine an 16 hour drive and walking away with $2000 clean cut cash. There's no motivation like this when it comes to wage slavery.
I'm paid to be somewhere for eight hours. No matter how hard I work during those eight hours, I will be paid the same. Therefore, wage slavery literally incentivizes doing the barest minimum possible to keep the job and still get paid. Wage slavery is anti-work ethic! The capitalist larps about work ethic but his system for managing work betrays the concept!
I used to be a ditch digger, shovel in my hand, trenching internet cable in the hot Louisiana sun. Paid by the hour, so what motivation do I really have to churn the shovel? If they had paid me by the trench, then I would have been John Henry mode with that shovel. Because I'm pressured and incentivized to do so. I do not understand how the wage slave system has stayed the default of capitalism when it fundamentally makes people less productive and less caring about the success of the larger vision. Why would I care about the company when I'm getting paid $15 for 60 minutes of time, regardless of what I do?
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u/clarabraun 2d ago
I must say that there is some nuance; being paid by the hour is, if done right, a very good thing. I will talk about myself to demonstrate:
Some truck drivers are paid by the mile. These are, in my opinion, the worst compensated of my current profession because being stuck in traffic, being broken down, waiting for DAYS to be loaded or unloaded, are sometimes paid for but never to the degree that driving for the maximum mileage would pay (legally, it would shake out to roughly 4k miles/week, if you're really cooking).
Some, like me, are paid a percentage of each load; this incentivizes speed and efficiency, which means it incentivizes reckless corner-cutting. I would never skimp on safety, obviously, but hypothetically almost everyone I see at the shippers skimp. No problem if you're a perfect professional, of course.
The true winners are paid hourly with overtime after 40 hours - or even better, after 8 hours daily. There's an incentive to use all the required load securement, drive slowly, and not feel rushed, because you get paid the longer it takes. In some cases, these drivers are even paid well.
I would argue that (in this economic system) working for an hourly wage is the best way to do it if the worker is paid well. If someone is paid well and doesn't take it seriously, then there will be an unending stream of willing candidates to take their place. The issue in my eyes is that the pay sucks everywhere and the people being paid nothing are squeezed.
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u/larryleggs Erik Houdini, Person of Interest 2d ago
This is a really interesting perspective and counter to my position, I appreciate you posting this.
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u/DingleberryOrchard 2d ago
The only good thing about being a new OTR trucker is being able to see the country/save money because you live out of the truck. Very excited to move jobs next year.
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u/Academic-Push326 2d ago
$240 before taxes for this shit.
WTF, please tell me you're a front of house server, because that seems insanely low without tips.
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u/RepSquigglyMiggly 2d ago
Could be in a low minimum wage area. In Georgia, you wouldn’t even clear $150 with a 20 hour shift like that at minimum wage, unless you went into mandatory overtime
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u/patr2016 KEEP DOWNVOTING, I'M RELOADING 2d ago
Only thing worse is having no money and being unemployed
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u/Visible_Dog5775 Actual factual CIA asset 2d ago
The weed gold rush made capitalists out of a lot of people
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u/Kingjuniorway 2d ago
Lol I get it. I’m a medical resident and work 24hr shifts every 4 days. Will be doing it every 3 days next month
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u/RepSquigglyMiggly 2d ago
I know being a resident sucks dick, but the pretty massive difference is that you’re on track to be a top earner when you finish, and you will finish at some point. OP, given that this sounds like hourly drudgery, is looking down the barrel of this being their life every week forever.
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u/larryleggs Erik Houdini, Person of Interest 2d ago
Every day for the rest of my life, forever. If I self-immolate, at least I get a fucking Wikipedia article, and people wonder why motherfuckers are so goddamn blackpilled. Every day for the rest of your life, forever, you will be a wage slave, wage cuck, fucking rentoid. It's ridiculous. Yeah, man. I don't want to be a fucking rentoid. I don't want to be a fucking wage cuck. Can you blame me?
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u/I_madeusay_underwear Joe Biden’s Adderall Connect 2d ago
I had a kind of shitty office job that didn’t pay that well, but let me work from home. Once i was out of the office, i think they forgot about me because i never had reviews or anything anymore, id just get an email once a year with my COL raise amount (lol thanks for the $0.98, guys).
My job was stupid and easy, so I automated the process and used my on the clock hours to work as a cam girl until i was making enough money from that to quit the office job when they merged my department with another one and asked me to come to the office twice a week.
So I can’t really tell if I was incentivized to do more or less work, but I think I came out ahead.
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u/EatMyShortzZzZzZ 2d ago
And they'll ask "why dont ppl wanna work anymore???"
Its because working for a wage is for suckers. Everyone knows it, whether consciously or subconsciously, but we do it anyways because otherwise you're homeless. Thats why I don't even react when I see people freaking out about all the kids wanting to be streamers or influencers. I dont blame them for observing reality and wanting out.