Work Reform

Sounds like some surplus value generated from labour is being extracted by the people owning the means of production

Nursing homes are often owned by investment trusts who have to pay out to their investors based on profits, so the managers of the trust take it upon themselves to outsource the maintenance, management, and labor to other entities they control. At a healthy upcharge, the menials who perform the tasks associated are not even an afterthought. They work for a faceless corporation that is puppeteered by the same people who own the nursing home, who rents it's facility from a real estate trust they also own, allowing them to extract as much value as possible from each level of the operation while limiting liability.

I feel like half these problems would be fixed if everyone woke up and unionized. Corpos would have no leverage left.

Boomers built an economy based around raping the wealth and futures of their children, to fund their retirement.

They consistently voted for politicians and policies that would benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else, in basically every economic sector.

Of course they don't pay their orderlies well either.

That would mean their 401ks wouldn't go up by as much.

Only now that the most grotesque frontman conceivable is helming the logical conclusion of their mindset turned into policy, are they starting to regret it all.

The pathological narccisist gerontocracy society.

Healthcare is the only sector with actual job growth now.

Everything else is collapsing.

The turned the entire country into basically a big retirement home supercomplex that you can't opt out of.

Vocational Awe

There are certain jobs that people really want to do. No matter how little the job pays, there will be people willing to do that job. Often these are the most important jobs.

That's not a good match for a purely capitalist system where someone can't survive on their salary. Unions are one way to fight this. Traditionally nurses had strong unions, but these days no union seems to be particularly strong. The other way is for the government to get involved and say that certain jobs are important enough that they get special exemptions from the purely capitalist system. That could mean different minimum wages, special tax exemptions, or all kinds of other things.

How have you been alive long enough to write this post but not see why? People exploit each other for power and wealth and so not care that they hurt people or the suffering they cause. Those best at that are the CEOs and senators and leaders of nations, the most powerful positions there are, are held by psychopaths, sadists and narcissists. They convince us all that fighting back is futile, immoral or illegal. We could topple it all and every day we choose to get a latte and spend another 9 hours grinding away our time on this earth just to stay alive.

It's all a fucking scam by rich ppl who are the most capable of the worst kinds of human beings.

Because those nursing aids aren't working on wealthy people. The circumstances of a worker is proportional to the level of threat and inconvenience it presents to the elite if they aren't in good shape.

We need more friction against the corporations, be it the implication of force, strikes, or quiet quitting.

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Should America's economic system be replaced in the future, a key thing to do is to eliminate most of the difference between the poorest and wealthiest. That would require standardizing incomes, capping wealth accumulation, workers voting for leadership, and using universal benefits such as free shelter and food to prevent coercive workplaces.

Our current economy is an creature that inherited the properties of feudalism, and wasn't explicitly designed to be good for civilization. Creating a whole new system with deliberate intent & mechanisms is the best path forward.

A job that requires wiping bums at any age should be very well paid.

There was a nurse in my province who killed eight nursing home residents at her job. She just enjoyed doing it. What a tragedy, to have someone use their power over you to kill you when you are most vulnerable.

You don't understand, the CEO needs a lot of money, to bribe cops when he rapes children.

Its nearly time for a general strike

For the paycheck thing: the daycare takes the parent's entire paycheck because daycare is so expensive because the working class hasn't gotten a raise in almost 20 years. Providers need the second job because inflation is so high because people are getting what they voted for.

Capitalism cannot function without paying workers less than their labor is worth, thus creating "profit" margins for rich people to steal from

i work in a nursing home, but im afraid i'll not be able to afford to die in one.

They get paid so awful drug addicts and gamblers are mostly doing that job. One that my family pays (i have no say in this) has wrecked two of the grandparents cars, stolen hundreds of dollars, and now us bringing their kids with them when they work. I’d rather be dead than used like that.

So close yet so complete lack of critical thinking away.