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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
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Petit bourgeois? Our money is all in our house and in retirement assets that are just America's poor excuse for a pension system. If we're petit bourgeois, so is every retired school teacher that's worked long enough to earn a pension.
Petit bourgeois refers to people that have to work but also control their own means of production. Classically this meant artisans, tradesmen, shop owners, etc. People who aren't having their labor exploited, but also still have to work.
In our careers, we've almost always worked regular salary jobs. We're not immune to job loss. We do not own the means of production. We've had our labor surplus siphoned off by employers our whole careers.
That's the whole point of this discussion. Even most millionaires are just working class people trying to achieve a little bit of stability in their lives.
That's true for a lot of people in "first world" countries. One is ahead of billions of poor people basically for existing.
FYI, this person told me to kill myself because I said they don't handle criticism well and tell people to kill themselves.
I can't report it because I'm banned in the community for saying China isn't perfect.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73259654/27442305
You can have whatever definition you want. But for me, working class means just that - a person that has earned their bread through the work of their own hands, not through the exploitation of the labor of others, through rent-seeking, or from inheritance.
I'm sure you can cite plenty of theory, but frankly, I don't care. I prefer a definition of the term centered in lived experience. If you go off raw wealth, you just end up classifying entire nations as working class or bourgeois, at which point the term loses all meaning.
Oh, you're just a racist garbage person. Xenophobia does not become OK simply because the target are Americans.
Well, if I guess if I'm irredeemably evil simply because of where I happened to be born, then you have no room to complain. I'm just doing what I was born to do, apparently. I'll disregard your words, because they're irrelevant to an evil monster like myself.
FYI, this person told me to kill myself because I said they don't handle criticism well and tell people to kill themselves.
I can't report it because I'm banned in the community for saying China isn't perfect.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73259654/27442305
Thanks. Blocked and moved on.
I will not even dignify your overt racism with a response.
Lol cry harder halfwit
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You are saying that capitalists own the means of production, while "little capitalists" don't.
I don't think its useful to lump in high-income professional work with the low end of capital accumulation. The sums may overlap, but the actual class interests don't, at least not entirely. Good analysis should recognize the distinctions here.
I think you’re thinking of the professional managerial class.
Lol cry harder halfwit
Lol try harder halfwit