Work Hard, Enjoy Never

4 days ago by sanitation to c/workreform

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"I work 60 hours most weeks.

And somehow, I still feel like I’m struggling to get by.

At some point you have to ask yourself:

What’s the point of working this hard if you never get to enjoy your life?

Something needs to change."

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Ashrakal 2 points 2 days ago

Once you don’t need to overwork yourself just to get by, then there will be another problem to overcome. Work reform is not the only monster out there to tackle.

Namely, many modern states consider you their property:

  • conscripting you by force into the military,
  • forcing unreasonable taxation on you,
  • suppressing your “dangerous ideology”,

… and so on.

Everything, because any of us as the individual doesn’t really matter to the “system” fronted by the politicians “we choose” and owned by the rich lobbyists. If you don’t agree to fight, then you’ll be tortured or imprisoned in a land that you probably don’t even personally care about. If you don’t pay the newly invented window tax, sausage tax, or whatever attempt to milk the common person, then they’ll make sure you’re miserable enough to fold for them.

The game was rigged from the start.

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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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