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If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.

This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.

Was expecting classist bullshit, got the exact opposite

This is so ubelievably important and I hate that I have to keep re-explaining it to people.

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

Fred Wright

When I talk about the value of work vs. the wages the worker gets, this is exactly what I’m talking about.  And today, more of that value winds up going to the shareholders than even the business owners.

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

We need to abandon the 40-hour work week and pay the actual creators of surplus labor value: employees.

#LateStageCapitalism

While I agree that there are more things nowadays to overwhelm autistic people specifically than in past times in history, I think that's not the main reason that we're seeing such intense rates of autistic burnout. To the point where it's becoming difficult or impossible for many otherwise highly independent autistics, like myself, to hold standard employment without incurring serious damage to our minds and bodies.

Burnout is not exclusive to autism, of course. It's the expending of too much mental and physical energy over too long a period of time until periods of rest can no longer make up for it and the body and mind basically just give up completely. Autistic burnout is specifically related to the extra energy that autistic people have to expend in order to "mask" and try to function in neurotypical society and to deal with overwhelming sensory input

I don't think that the rates at which autistics are burning out (and by extension, being diagnosed more often since diagnosis is often withheld from anyone able to manage their symptoms) is because that sensory input is just so much more intense nowadays or really anything to do with it being worse now for autistics in particular.

I think the working world, especially within the millennial and older gen z generations, is on the brink of total burn out. Autistic people just ate hitting it a bit earlier due to the added factors of normal autistic stressors. That extra expending of energy pushed us over the edge into burnout but the rest of the world is not far behind. Allistics are running on the energy that autistics had to spend already but it can't last very long and I think it won't be long until we have an entire workforce that's functionally completely disabled for an indeterminate amount of time.

The world of employment is rapidly becoming completely uninhabitable and autistic people are the canaries of this particular coal mine.

it's legitimately fucked how people view labor in the modern age. i'm Happy stocking shelves, why does that mean i shouldn't make enough money to live? don't you think we should be cultivating a workforce that's happy to do the things they want? do you want a doctor who's only working for his paycheck & not out of an actual urge to help others? do you want the garbagemen who keep your city clean to live impoverished because they're not bootstrapping hard enough? every single american institution is working backwards to solve problems that could easily be solved with compassion and empathy

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

people still think you become rich ??? from working hard?????? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

that is exactly my point of view. if all people were given universal basic income, we could have tens of thousands of boring, tedious, dangerous, and long term harmful jobs done by robots, while humans are free to explore their passions without fear of poverty and homelessness.

in a good society, automation means a boom in the arts. language, painting, music, dance, writing, philosophy, architecture, etc. these are the sectors that advance tremendously during periods of human health and flourishing

Back in the 1960s, we were told that automation and rising productivity would mean shorter work weeks with higher pay. Instead we have multibillionaires, growing poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. The money is all there, it’s just being hoarded.

“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

if u dream of having a garden, of painting murals, cooking or baking for people, researching in a lab, or writing stories, u dream of labor. which is good! we all jus hate having our labor exploited and being underpaid for the value of our work. nobody wants to just sit at home and do NOTHING as quarantine proved! in and of itself labor is fulfilling and contributes to the betterment and advancement of society, too many people are just barred by arbitrary divides (class, education) and unable to perform labor they’d be best suited for, or that type of labor (arts, service industry) is undervalued and underpaid.

The Dutch are making moves to make some changes after this outbreak