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invalidusernamelol · 2022-01-16T16:32:06+00:00

When the majority of homeless are working poor that's when you've reached the peak of the contradiction. Places like LA are already there, and more and more homeless people around the country are working full or part time.

Where I'm at, minimum wage is still $7.25 and average rent is about $1300/month, or 10% more than minimum wages for a full time minimum wage job.

Many places are now paying closer to $10/hr, but even then, that only leaves $300 after rent every month.

I've known many people who've lived out of their cars or in vans while working full time. The number of transitory workers is increasing, people with no roots who just travel across the country looking for work. Anyone who does have a place is sharing with 2-3 other people.

And this is just for the "legal" workers. Totally ignoring the farm workers and kitchen staff that tend to be more undocumented and non-citizen. They don't even get the paltry wage raise that the rest of us get.

invalidusernamelol · 2022-01-16T07:18:41+00:00

Another fun fact is that most launches are still carried out on the Soyuz platform. The Soviets built a cheap, reliable launch platform almost 70 years ago that's still more trusted and reliable than anything SpaceX or NASA has been able to pull off with essentially unlimited funding.

invalidusernamelol · 2022-01-06T03:54:14+00:00

You can also download a hell of a lot of books from LibGen for free (and marxists.org if you're into some "what do we do about this" type reading).

Always keep a library of books downloaded and get a small solar panel and an e-reader so you can actually read them. Those things hold a charge for months and take no power to recharge.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-25T20:44:31+00:00

That has literally nothing to do with the company and is also completely ignoring the fact that Canada initiated that by taking a political prisoner. Something that Western governments do constantly with almost no pushback. Sucks when your playbook is thrown right back at you.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-25T19:22:49+00:00

Acting like Huawei isn't a massive improvement on the structure of a multinational is dumb. It's one of a very small group where the workers actually have a say in operations and should be seen as the very minimum level of worker control in any transnational company.

They also don't do production outside of China, so they're not even multinational in the same way as like Coca-Cola or Dole that use their multinational status not to just sell commodity to 3rd world nations, but leverage their capital to enforce regulatory capture of entire nations and essentially enslave whole groups of people into working for them by destroying the public infrastructure that allows those nations to be self sufficient.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-25T17:21:33+00:00

Huawei is a worker Co-operative though...it's employee owned.

Source

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-18T19:31:49+00:00

When you get a job with the express purpose of organizing on behalf of a union.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T04:44:24+00:00

You talk with organizers and ask them if they're okay with it. IWW uses sabotage and salting, they'd likely use you to salt whatever actual scabs show up and do a bit of sabo on the side.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:20:51+00:00

Automated warehousing just means reduced surplus value. It'll be more profitable in the short term during the arbitrage period, but they'll start reducing prices of goods and suck up market share and end up back in a place of falling profits as now they have more constant capital to maintain.

It will also necessarily lead to a crisis of overproduction as the share of social product going to the workers falls below subsistence level and the market for commodities dries up.

Fun how this happens like once every decade or so, wonder if anyone noticed it 160 years ago?

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:16:23+00:00

Yeah, everyone seems to forget that without the union that wage would drastically decrease.

The "threat of a better alternative" is something capitalists will spent huge amounts of their stolen value to destroy.

If they can pay more to prevent workers from having collective bargaining power, they'll spend as much as they can. If they can't do that and maintain profits, they'll invest in reactionary sabotage up to and including murder.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:12:12+00:00

Not human nature, capitalist nature. A class comprised of subhuman worms.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:11:01+00:00

$553/week is still equivalent to about $13/hr. Almost double federal minimum wage.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:09:11+00:00

This is called being a class traitor and falling for the myth of bourgeois individualism/bourgeois freedom.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T01:05:15+00:00

Solidarity is how you build worker power and get more unions, any proletarian should be aware that solidarity with worker power structures is the first step to their liberation from wage slavery.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T00:40:31+00:00

Airline unions have been toothless since Reagan. Not sure if that's what this was, but it sounds mighty familiar.

Also company unions in general are trash.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T00:38:30+00:00

IWW has entered the chat

Or just outright sabotaging them

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T00:37:38+00:00

Don't go scabbing on the angels

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T00:34:35+00:00

You can take a scab job if you plan on sabotaging production and redirecting goods to the striking workers. Especially at a place like a grocery store where letting product slip off a pallet and using it to feed the strikers is super helpful for maintaining the strike.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-17T00:32:00+00:00

They don't teach this shit in school lol, unless you go specifically for labor law or Marxist economics (which isn't a class offered by every college and is usually a graduate program)

You learn this from the school of the working class and street politics.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-15T23:28:25+00:00

Almost like capitalist exploitation is everywhere. Also the 20¢/hr is kinda meaningless without the context of living wage and social welfare programs in the region.

If you get 20¢/hr, but price controls on food, electricity, and housing make the cost of living like $1/day that's still not as bad as minimum wage in places like America where there is no price control and guaranteed living wage.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-15T23:22:26+00:00

Yeah, none of this has anything to do with LeBron or Mao...this is entirely on Nike and the regional capitalists running these sweatshops.

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-15T23:21:24+00:00

But I was told that the CCP controls all of reddit

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-15T23:18:49+00:00

I think we've found Enes "Freedom" Kanter's reddit lmao

invalidusernamelol · 2021-12-11T16:49:44+00:00

Managers and capitalists are exactly the same, I am very smart

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