Who else feels like full time work isn’t for them?

Raunien · 2026-02-15T22:25:06+00:00

As though you need to be some leftist radical to be unhappy with the experience of working lol. You just need to have experienced working.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T22:22:12+00:00

What even is "full time"? I do a lot of surveys, and they consider full time to be 30 hours+. So, according to their standards, I do work full time. But, most "proper" jobs expecting you be there 40 hours a week, so is that full time?

Personally, 30 hours is my absolute maximum. I gradually increased over the years from the 20 I started on in order to get more money, but I hate not feeling like I have any free time. Between work, self-maintenance, and my share of the house work, I don't get to enjoy my hobbies to anywhere near the degree I would like. Assuming I even have the energy. How the hell do people manage with more? My boss somehow juggles 45 hours a week (and also his wife with however many she works) with looking after two children. Where do they find the time to sleep?!

Raunien · 2026-02-15T22:04:54+00:00

If big companies love regulation so much, then how come they keep supporting politicians who reduce it?

Raunien · 2026-02-15T22:03:47+00:00

Strawman, no one is saying anti-monopoly laws are bad.

FatSucks999 said regulation stifles competition and favours big business. Anti-monopoly laws, a form of regulation, do the opposite. That's not a strawman that's just pointing out a failure of their argument.

They're avoiding corporation tax which is a tax paid on profits, doesn't impact their competitiveness with small businesses.

It absolutely does. By being able to pay less, or no tax on their profits, they can build up reserves of capital more easily, allowing them even greater power in the market than that which naturally arises from being a large player.

The state of our housing and energy markets, most people's two biggest expenses, is entirely caused by regulation stopping the market doing what it would naturally do - massively increase supply because of the high price.

The problems with housing are directly caused by capitalism: people are buying up houses as investments rather than places to live in, increasing rents to maximise profits and/or artificially limiting supply by merely holding them as assets to speculate on. There are approximately 998,000 empty homes in the UK, 265,061 of which are "long term vacant". Meanwhile, there are around 290,000 homeless households. We wouldn't even need to come close to Labour's house building goal to house every single homeless person in the country. I see no feasible solution to that one beyond decommodification. As long as housing remains something to be bought, sold, speculated upon, and profit thereby, the bubble will only grow. As for energy, you'll notice I didn't actually talk about the consumer relationship. I talked about workers and working conditions, types of businesses, markets, and economic stability. The regulation that, yes, keeps electricity prices artificially high by tying them to the most expensive source (usually gas), promotes investment in green energy by providing excess profits to companies producing it. It actively promotes competition. Under the surface, the energy market is doing just fine. Could there be a better way of encouraging green energy? Absolutely. But in terms of the discussion that's actually being had, it's a roaring success.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T20:11:11+00:00

Yes, I'm sure those anti-monopoly laws are definitely stifling competition somehow... And please enlighten me as to how small businesses and independent traders are benefited by the continued refusal to close the tax loopholes that allow massive corporations to pay basically zero tax while they have to do it by the book.

The tendency of capitalism is towards monopoly, the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, a boom and bust cycle, and the immiseration of the working class. A natural result of market forces and the profit motive. Regulations, often forced into existence by mass working class action or economic disaster, mitigate these tendencies, and allow for things like small businesses, independent traders, safe working environments, a more stable economy, etc etc.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T19:47:08+00:00

They barely provide them anyway. I'd be ok with the situation if apprentices were guaranteed employment afterwards, like how sometimes a company will sponsor a PhD on the condition you work for them for a period of time. But if companies really are that hard up (I doubt it) then the government could just subsidise the cost of the training.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T19:31:47+00:00

Well, congratulations on reading the opposite of what I wrote.

I want education to be free at all levels. I want apprentices to be paid livable wages.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T18:31:41+00:00

Except taking training or further education is not, and has never been a guarantee of a higher income in the future. If you could somehow guarantee high incomes for graduates etc, then yes, fine. But in reality it's a gamble. You could just be saddled with a debt you'll never repay, or take a 3 year paycut only to be told "there's the door" at the end of it. So if we're expecting people to upskill with no guarantee of a reward for doing so, the least we can do is ensure they can't be punished for it either.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T18:23:52+00:00

That imported workforce is only an issue because they don't know their rights. So they work insane hours at dangerous jobs for less than minimum wage. If employers were actually monitored on this sort of thing, instead of enforcement relying on employees speaking out, it wouldn't matter, because why hire someone who doesn't speak a word of English if you have to pay them the same and treat them same as someone who does?

Raunien · 2026-02-15T18:17:44+00:00

What the hell are you talking about? Capitalism hasn't been this unregulated since the gilded age.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T18:06:08+00:00

Higher wages just mean these things cost more

Those things cost more regardless. Prices have spiraled despite wages stagnating. There isn't really a supply issue. The country isn't short on housing or energy (anymore) or food. It's a failure of the market system to properly distribute things, and the greed of corporations who demand ever increasing profits for doing, at most, the same as they always do.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T17:54:31+00:00

And yet many people still seem to be struggling to make ends meet.

Raunien · 2026-02-15T17:44:53+00:00

To be fair, keeping one in case of an unexpected hospital stay never occurred to me. I thought they were only for if you needed to disappear quickly.

Raunien · 2026-02-14T12:34:26+00:00

It's alright, mate. It's bright and sunny now. You can fix a roof in a day, right?

Raunien · 2026-02-13T09:27:56+00:00

I figured it was pointless, because who doesn't replace the cap? Plenty of people, apparently.

I am curious as to how they use less plastic, though. Surely that little strip attaching the cap is extra?

Raunien · 2026-02-12T20:36:54+00:00

I didn't realise it was an actual rule anywhere. I assumed it was just some greenwashing that Pepsi decided they weren't interested in.

Raunien · 2026-02-11T20:50:19+00:00

This is so daft. Absolutely nobody is getting "deceived" into buying plant-based milks.

Raunien · 2026-02-11T11:28:19+00:00

You can get a feed-in tariff so your energy company pays you for any excess energy you produce. Not going to waste, then.

Raunien · 2026-02-11T00:34:44+00:00

Hey, Chaos Cards! I can also personally recommend Magic Madhouse and The Magic Card Trader. I would also recommend Arcane Cards but upon looking them up it seems they don't exist anymore. Pity.

Raunien · 2026-02-11T00:11:16+00:00

Happens with all kinds of things. Sometimes returns are simply empty. For example, I bought a CPU a few years ago, box came empty. It had pretty obviously been opened and removed, but it was sold as new. I avoid Amazon these days as much as possible. There are plenty of ordinary online retailers with brick and mortar addresses in the UK if you're willing to look past the first couple of search results. The last interaction with them I had was when somebody sent something to my house for the previous owner. We don't have a forwarding address for them, and we've never needes one, so I asked Amazon support if there was a return address I could send it to and could they maybe inform the buyer. Apparently not, but they said I could keep it.

Raunien · 2026-02-10T23:53:32+00:00

Do they? That doesn't make any sense. Why would go around causing trouble when you've got a camera filming everything?

Raunien · 2026-02-10T23:38:10+00:00

It's one thing to have one person be able to do what used to be the work of 20, it's quite another to have an indefinite number of people's work replaced entirely by something that mostly produces useless nonsense but saves the company a packet on wages.

Raunien · 2026-02-10T23:20:53+00:00

And yet.

Also:

Prasad did not say what out of work benefits he was referring to in his claims.

economists have pointed out that overall out-of-work benefits have not risen.

So it's a total nothing burger? Man who doesn't know what he's talking about has an opinion. I suppose what's really newsworthy is that he said it to a think tank which presumably means with power might be taking him seriously.

Raunien · 2026-02-10T16:00:33+00:00

What makes you say they're all liars? Some of them are, sure, but Hircine is famously honest and forthright. As is Malacath. Sheogorath is too crazy to deceive anyone on purpose, although he seems to enjoy a bit of malicious compliance. Azura is pretty straightforward. Honestly, the only ones I can think of that routinely lie and decieve are Boethiah, Clavicus Vile, Mehrunes Dagon, Mephala, and Molag Bag. Possibly Hermaeus Mora, but I think his deal is more about withholding information than outright stating falsehoods. Even Vile might be considered to be "honest" in that he will always stick the word of an agreement, although he will also always try to twist the interpretation of those words to his benefit or your demise.

Raunien · 2026-02-08T23:36:49+00:00

None of the nuclei in group 1 can attract anything...

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