When you literally cannot afford a 2 bedroom apartment in any state on minimum wage, that’s gonna happen. Fucking pay me money to do your shit work.
One true expert who’s been tracking California for four decades, also finds himself scratching his head
how tf are they an expert if they can’t come up with literally anything after 40 years of study. That’s an anti-expert, I can not imagine doing something for 40 years and having literally learned nothing about it
that’s how 90% of people are under capitalism are though. They don’t care about what they’re doing, they were okay at it in high school or college and are just waiting for a pay-check.
I don’t think it’s fine or good at all. There’s the obvious problem that expertise is dying. Past that, everyone should at least care somewhat about what it is they do for a career. Obviously not everyone can like every job, but the majority of people should find some fulfillment and pride in their work. sewage workers should be respected and be proud their work makes it possible for people to live in cities and be healthy, people that work at restaurants or in retails should be able to feel like facilitators to the public so people can get what they want or need. Janitors or other cleaners should be able to be happy they make our complex living and working spaces possible. And of course they should be able to learn many interesting things through their work, developing into respected experts at their crafts. But instead it’s just a grind so they can afford rent and food, and these vital workers get looked down on.
We really need an emoji for “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
Interesting to see how the capitalist narrative changes. Not long ago it was “once the stimulus payments end you proles are gonna have to get back to work for shit wages”. Now that the stimulus has ended and the “labor shortage” has only gotten more acute, the capitalist media sure has shut up quick, haven’t they. The narrative now is “gosh this economy is so weird right now no one understands it”. They’ll probably keep at this line until we hit another big downtown and then it will be “you poors should be grateful to work for peanuts, don’t you know how bad the economy is right now?!”
the capitalist media sure has shut up quick, haven’t they
Sadly, they have not. They are, if anything, only getting louder and more obnoxious.
They’ll probably keep at this line until we hit another big downtown and then it will be “you poors should be grateful to work for peanuts, don’t you know how bad the economy is right now?!”
I mean, what happens in the next big downturn? I think that’s something of an open question. Like, smugly telling people “Get back to work” when there’s no work to get back to is a great way to grift your patrons but also a great way to kick off a riot.
I get the sense that we’re going to need a new National Enemy and quick if we’re going to be able to channel all the rage from the next Enron collapse or Lehman bankruptcy.
