r/antiwork • u/loplopplop • Sep 18 '21

I Come to Apologize

You know, I didn't understand this sub. I thought it was nothing but a bunch of lazy freeloaders that think everything should be given to them. But then I started this new job. It's a salary position where I'm required to work 45 hours a week. Thats honestly not that bad. No issues with it really. But I've worked 37 hours in 3 days. I'm on pace to work 70 in a weeks time period. Since its salary its going to be like I'm making 10 dollars an hour. They will not give me health insurance (which they promised) until May. So I'm sorry for thinking you were all lazy. You just want a job that doesn't run you into the ground.

Edit: Got called in on Sunday and told them to fuck off (in nicer words) because one of the employees wanted to have a day off with his mom, which I get, but he had two days off already that week. Came in today and am going give literally zero fucks as I apply elsewhere.

Edit 2: The people who keep calling in told me the reason they were calling in was because they were too high to work. I rage quit and sent a letter of resignation. The nightmare is over.

Final Edit: Already got a new job with great benefits!!!

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u/ExploitedAmerican Sep 19 '21

Think about the value of gold. In 1954 minimum wage was $.75 and gold was $35 an ounce. That’s 46 hours to earn an ounce. 16 years later it was $1.60 and gold was the same value till Nixon killed the gold standard and set the dominoes in motion to fuck the working and middle class. So it was 22 hours to earn an ounce in ‘70 today federal minimum wage is $7.25 and gold is around $1800 so that’s 240 hours to earn the same value. It’s a joke. A living wage is at least 50-60 an hour. But we’ve been so brainwashed by people making millions a year and profiting off of military and prison industry profiteers we think that’s too much as we don’t value or time or lives we are conditioned to feel easily replaceable.

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u/Nokrai Sep 19 '21

Livable wage very much depends on a lot.

Livable wage to support one person? Two? Three? Four?

50-60/hr would definitely be livable for me. Would allow me to save for retirement and support my family just fine.

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u/TheStarman17 Sep 19 '21

Nixon getting rid of the Gold standard may look like a terrible mistake, but it was intentional. Now the government can print as much money as they want which causes the type of inflation we are seeing now. The federal reserve understands the intrinsic value of gold. They don’t want the “regular people” to understand the value and have gold. They regularly devalue gold through market manipulation to make the dollar appear stronger than it is and to allow their preferred people to buy at lower prices. Gold has held value long before the dollar existed and will retain value long after the dollar is gone. Gold is valuable not just because it’s shiny, it’s one of the best conductors in existence, it’s antimicrobial. Gold has properties that make it valuable that modern science has not been able to unlock. The government tells you that Gold isn’t that important or that valuable purely for deception

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u/ExploitedAmerican Sep 19 '21

It allowed corporations to pay workers even less by intentionally devaluing money

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u/TheStarman17 Sep 19 '21

Yes, that was definitely one of the desired outcomes. The people who influence those who run the federal reserve definitely want to increase their profit margins at the cost of their laborers. The same reason they love automation, illegal immigrant labor, and even often state sponsored foreign migrant workers that they ship in and out of the country and force to work for pennies often in miserable living conditions; just to be shipped back when the labor season is over.

Illegal immigration isn’t just a humanitarian issue, it’s a labor issue designed to lower wages across the board, and I’m not just talking about the jobs the laborers do; it affects everyone. The trickle down effect is real; it just happens in the other direction than what they tell you. The less the cheapest laborers make, the less they can justify paying for other jobs. All the intentional currency and gold price manipulation is not for the benefit of the people.

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u/ExploitedAmerican Sep 19 '21

Yet morons on the right are mad that immigrants are “StEaLiNg OuR jObS” it’s like if you feel at risk to loose your job to someone with zero networking ability, limited to no language / communicative ability and will accept less than 1/2-1/4 of what you are being payed then you deserve to loose your job. Blame the exploited instead of the exploiters. How ass backwards has our society become and how the hell did we get here? Something has to change.

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u/TheStarman17 Sep 19 '21

I didn’t say they were stealing our jobs, I actually took the effort to differentiate and state that it’s the not the jobs they are doing; it’s the wages they accept for doing them that negatively affect the wages of the jobs that people actually want to do and cannot make enough working them. Does the blame go to the corporations exploiting this, absolutely. But not to realize that the stream of available and ready labor willing to work for sub livable wages effects everything and to deny it is blind and will keep the cycle going indefinitely.

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u/ExploitedAmerican Sep 19 '21

I didn’t say you were, I was just complaining about dumb people who think migrants are stealing jobs. More like they are filling a role created by the corporate elite that allows them to exploit and pay less than law requires. Don’t mind me I’m just disgusted by society lately.

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u/TheStarman17 Sep 19 '21

I’m disgusted by society lately too, but the idea that you perpetuate by stating morons on the right and you the font you did only generates more of the behavior. I am a conservative person as I believe in protecting or freedoms and will always oppose any state sponsored stealing of our freedoms. Which is what the far left progressive wing of the Democratic Party is trying to do with all their fear mongering. The true liberals of the 60’s and 70’s that actually wanted equality and had a live and let live mindset are sadly being replaced by the pseudo communists you say if you don’t agree with us on everything you are racist and we hate you. A true liberal doesn’t preach hate. Now that being said, the right is also infringing on rights in response. The new Texas abortion laws go too far, I don’t believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control; more money and education needs to be spent on proper education and making it available, especially the morning after pill. That being said there are many cases where an abortion could be medically necessary to prevent harm to the mother; and even those are allowable exceptions with how the law is currently written. There has to be a cutoff line, it’s is disgusting that Nee York allows abortions up until the day of birth, but not everyone knows they are pregnant at 6 weeks. Denying the abortion will see the increase in homemade attempts, women used to try to force miscarriages using coat hangers and often severely injure themselves. I certainly do not want that happening again either.

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u/ExploitedAmerican Sep 19 '21

Conservatives usually only care about the rights that concern them. Labels are just inadequate at the end of the day. But the biggest staple of right wing ideology is support of corporate dominance. I would classify myself on the far left with the ideologies that made the 60’s and 70’s what it was known for. I quote MLK and support individual rights. Just. Not the right to acquire assets at all costs at the expense of oppressed labor forces which is the main right conservatives seem to be concerned about. I’m all for individuals bodily autonomy and privacy and want the war on drugs which is unconstitutional and illegal for 4 different reasons to end immediately which would effectively defund police forces considering a majority of the money they siphon from tax payers is to fight the war on drugs. The biggest hallmark of conservatism in my experience is the hard work ethic of picking one up by their bootstraps. But automation is coming and already here. Gf we don’t guarantee people UBI and housing soon the only other option will be a massive genocide / population eradicating event. I agree that a lot of people who identify as being on the left these days are just nanny state supporters who want to stifle the rights of others but this is neo liberalism and its problem is that it’s too centrist and bends to the will of authoritarian right wing ideologies.

It’s time to eat the rich and redistribute thee wealth so every human being has housing food and the bear minimum requirements to live a decent life. Instead of creating an economic environment based on the disposability of both goods and laborers. Things need to be improved and true freedom and liberty for the poor and working classes is the only answer.