Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/workreform

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Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.

About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.

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This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.

Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

It's ok! Don't ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we'd have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't think this is necessarily negative. I'm a millennial in that 44% and I'm in no hurry to retire because my profession is my identity. I hope I live a long time, but I also hope that I can work until I die. What would I even do if I didn't work? I tried taking a year off once but I lasted a month before I was bored and looking for job.

(I don't mean to sound smug - I get that I'm lucky. But I'm also not that unusual.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In a way i can see why you think you're lucky as you will suffer less in these terrible times, but damn, there are so many things I want to do in life that I'll run out of time before I run out of things.

I am also a millenial and have a decent non-shitty job, but I'd drop that in a second if I didn't need it. It takes such a chunk of my life.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my profession is my identity

How very sad for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, no one says "how sad" when a person's Identity is creating art. I'm an engineer so I create practical things, but that doesn't mean I have less passion for what I do.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having passion for something and using it as the basis of your identity are two very different things. If a painter says that painting is their identity, yes, I would say that was sad too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would you say is a good basis for one's identity?

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 1 year ago

Why should any one thing be your whole identity?