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[image description: a tweet by cam (they/them) 👹 @cam_pup that says "It honestly doesn't matter how easy a job is, people spend hours of their lives working...that they'll *never* get back. We give up our lives for jobs & we should be paid a living wage. Our time on earth is limited and valuable, it NEEDS to be paid for accordingly." /end description]
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it NEEDS to be paid for accordingly.
do you have a job that can easily done from home?
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[ID: tweet from Emelyne Museaux, with the Haitian flag in header, ( @/plsleaveamsg) on May 12th 2021 reading “’Nobody wants to work anymore.’ Nobody ever wanted to work at all. We wanted to be productive, be creative, be part of a community, be supported, be validated, and have the time and space to truly rest. No one actually wants to trade in hours of their life to ‘earn’ necessities.” /end ID]
People have tried to blame the internet for our collective loneliness, but in fact it comes alongside the change in our working lives and the decline of unions and other institutions that gave people a sense of shared purpose and direction beyond just the job. When I asked the union activists at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis what they’d miss when it closed down in 2017, they all mentioned their friends and the union. Not the work itself.
"though capitalism has convinced us that in working hard we will be rewarded with a dream job, jaffe illustrates how our intense commitment to labor is turning us into the most efficient workers possible: devoting everything to labor and keeping nothing for ourselves"