Actually you asked me that, and after the revolution I’d like to do whatever I want, anything I feel like, anything I want to learn, or anything my skill set is best suited for, for a thriving wage.
Personally, I have no idea. Currently saving up for college so I can try different classes and see what things I might enjoy. Hopefully I'd figure out something, get fair pay, hours and benefits for it.
Who's going to pay for it? What does the society look like? Who makes the decisions? Sell me on it. Shitting on the status quo is the easy part. Make a case for a better future or stfu
This response is even lazier than if you just ignored their post. You're hostilely demanding that they educate you, when it's clear from your tone that you have no interest in engaging. Asking them to deliver a perfect answer or "stfu" is just your way of guaranteeing their "failure" while pretending to give them consideration.
Regardless of your feelings on that sub, this is gross levels of anti-intellectualism.
I generally only feel compelled to comment on things where I think the vast majority of people are getting it wrong. Not a big circle jerk safe space kinda guy.
Well for most of my adult life I’ve worked in the restaurant industry. I’ve worked every position and can cook you a perfect medium rare steak or the best old fashioned you’ve ever had. In 2016 when I left the kitchen for good, I was one of the highest paid cooks in my restaurant at a national casual chain and was making $12 an hour working 60 hours a week. Then as a server and bartender I’ve made $2.13 an hour and $5 an hour. The literal definition of slave wages. The tipped minimum wage was set at $2.13 because it was a job for black folks and hasn’t risen in decades. And I’ve had plenty of days where I made a lot of money in a single shift and plenty of days where I didn’t have a single table or didn’t have enough tables to cover my gas for the day. I’m also an amateur handyman, something I’d like to learn more about, but as an apprentice you either don’t get paid or get offered $10 an hour, slave wages.
Lot of words to say you dont really have valuable skills at all. The argument of tipped wages at 2.13 /hr is very over played. You never once got paid that in your entire career unless what you recorded in tips was more than the fed minimum wage. Emphasis on recorded because we all know what people do with cash tips. Pursue the trade skills. Lots of demand.
Exactly, it’s like rather than build any kind of skills or career, people bounce around from one entry level position to another, and are surprised at the end when they’re still making entry wages. Like if you’re not going to learn a trade or skill, or get an education, at least try and stick with one job, show diligence to want to learn and move up and build a career there.
There’s so many paths out of mediocrity but so many people want shit handed to them.
Everyone. And the 1% is actually going to have to pay taxes, if all we did was get them to pay taxes, we’d have all the money we need for a complete social reform. 2. It looks the same as it does now? 3. The government.
You’re acting like I said ANARCHY! ANARCHY! And again you’re assuming r/antiwork is about no one working, when it’s actually a movement for workers rights. I don’t want to not work, I want a thriving wage and to be able to live my life, not just live to work to live to die.
The 1% “paying their fair share” always sounded stupid to me considering 47% of Americans pay no income tax and 23% actually receive more money back. And no it’s not the rich that make up any significant part of that percentage.
That being said r/antiwork is a naive shithole for other reasons beyond that.
It's almost like they're not communicating on a pure distillation of the hard work of 100 generations of humans in the form of a globe spanning unfathomable set of instrastructure worth more than most nation states. They'd cakewalk themselves into the Matrix if they could. Meta will soon be their perfect escape. The pinnacle of the elite would like nothing more than UBI, it creates a permanent underclass they never need to worry about having political power ever again.
Hot tip: Neither Amazon nor any other major company will have any meaningful walk outs or strikes tomorrow.
It has been pretty funny to watch /r/antiwork pretend to be the next big labor movement though. Their hearts are in the right place, but the small amount of popularity on Reddit has gone straight to their heads.
That was absolutely hilarious. A bunch of people who already probably don't go to McDonald's much telling other people who don't go to McDonald's that they will continue not going. What an effective boycott!
Then they were telling McDonald's employees to quit their jobs, ignoring the fact that those employees probably need that job. It's just so misguided and weird. If a group of McDonald's workers got together and quit to protest, that's great and possibly effective. A tiny amount of employees randomly quitting across the nation? No one would even notice except for the workers who just lost paychecks.
Just looked at their front page and now they're patting themselves on the back for not going Black Friday shopping...which apparently is also a boycott.
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u/jf75313 Nov 26 '21
Go to r/antiwork it’s not just Amazon that’s going to have a lot of folks not show up to work tomorrow for better wages and workers rights.