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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Money Won't Save Them Now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bl4ckblooc to c/workreform

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Pretty ironic that the wealthiest men in Pakistan are stuck in a submarine a week after hundreds of Pakistani refugees drowned trying to get to Greece because these guys are pilfering all the country's money for themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can you really blame a 19 year old for that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Btw here is the full list of people who were on board: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65955554

[–] bl4ckblooc -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His father is also there, but yes; children of people who are ruining their countries share some of the blame because they are also profiting off the pain of their people. He could have disowned his family as soon as he got overseas but he didn't, and soon enough he will be doing the same thing his father is doing.

[–] bl4ckblooc 1 points 1 year ago

It’s very easy to tell that everyone here is from a first world country.

[+] MrFlamey -10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It really depends which billionaires. Believe it or not, some billionaires aren't bad people (probably). Billionaires are just people with a ton of money and power at the end of the day, and we should judge them on their actions, not their bank balance, regardless of our suspicions of how they got so rich.

However, if we could stick (for example) the Sacklers, Kochs and Murdochs in a sub and send it to Challenger Deep with just enough oxygen to get there and plenty of ballast, we'd definitely be doing the world a favour. These scumbags have a huge amount of blood on their hands, and while it would be better to see them in jail, we never will, so fantasising about their horrible demise is the most we can really do.

[–] bl4ckblooc 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one is able to accumulate that much wealth without being complacent to human suffering somewhere along the line. The only billionaire I think isn't a bad person would be Mackenzie Scott, and I'm sure she sat there knowing what was happening at Amazon for quite a while.

[–] MrFlamey 4 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. I don't think all billionaires deserve to suffocate though, but perhaps there should be limits on how much wealth people can hoard, and I'm all for very heavy taxes on wealth over a certain amount to the point that billionaires shouldn't be a thing..

[–] riodoro1 8 points 1 year ago

No. Fucking stop believing them.

There are no good billionaires. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I

[–] Endlessvoid 1 points 1 year ago

Don't carry water for people who would let you die to increase their mountain of gold a little. What you've described might be true of millionaires, even multi millionaires; but no one gets to a billion dollars without stepping on those below them in the pursuit of more money than one person could ever spend in their lifetime.

Being a billionaire is pathological, if the human race was a biological organism and one part of it started hoarding that many resources, we would call it cancer and cut it out.

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