solarpunk memes

Never heard anyone be flattered when called an essential employee. Mostly they just say "if I'm essential then pay me more."

True. It also shows how most humans tend to think in social hierarchy where money and status are interlinked.

That's actually one thing capitalists (as you call them, I'd call them managers) are good at. Their focus on money allows them to ignore status.

This is also why workers need unions. Workers need experts that understand the inner workings of corporations to lobby on their behalf.

Fuck earmark; appropriate from landlords; plenty of empty units.

Have you met any of my coworkers?

This is something only doofuses playing semantic games say.

"Unskilled labor" is a term with an established definition: it's work that you don't need special schooling or training beforehand to be qualified to be hired to do, and also generally means that someone who is hired to do it can be fully trained to do the work to a satisfactory level within a month.

There are jobs where you need to trust people to not abuse their power more than others, though.

I like your way of thinking.

Actually, Unions tend to do something similar with overtime and weekend pay.

If the factory needs you at night or in the weekend, they gotta pay up.

it would be better to just raise the minimum wage to a living wage and then regulate housing prices. And then tie the minimum wage to the cost of living.

They know where they're going, they already made their deal.

They don't care

I think that's the idea. Heroes "do it for free". You don't see superman getting extra money from saving people. He holds a job. Same with Spiderman. Even Link has to pay rupees for his gear to save the world.

So businesses have figured out if they give you the praise of being a hero, they don't have to pay you. Just like a superhero would never ask for money, you shouldn't either, hero.