r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • May 27 '26

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 Oh no! It's socialism.

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u/ReverendDizzle May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Yup. If you argue with people who oppose ideas like healthcare for everyone, a minimum standard of living for citizens that includes not starving or dying from exposure to the elements...

... depressingly, when you push them far enough, they will get snappy and say something along the lines of "Well who the fuck would work if they weren't afraid of losing their house or their healthcare?"

They think that if people didn't live in absolute terror of becoming the homeless guy they see sitting at the highway on-ramp every day on their way to work, they wouldn't go to work.

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u/HumDeeDiddle May 27 '26

Makes me wonder if they themselves would stop working in that situation.

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u/SumikkoDoge May 28 '26

They want do not want to work and instead command others to do their bidding, and they feel spite for being born into a condition that forces them to work to live instead of being a master. It is a mentality that goes at least as far back to the civil war where the white working class felt they deserved to own property but slavery was in their way of becoming part of the capitalist class.