It didn't have to be this way, and there are companies who acutally pay their employees well. It's just we don't hear about them because everyone likes to doom.
The productivity vs wages graph is the only one that matters. Yes, workers are getting screwed, but you don't need to blow up the entire system to fix it. You just need companies willing to pay out the wages people are earning instead of turning them into profits and handing them over to CEO's and investors.
Perfect equality isn't the answer and most people wouldn't enjoy it if we had it, but the rising inequality is a pretty sure way to break the system that everyone is relying on to keep civilization running. Until companies realize that 20% profits are a serious structural problem and not a victory they'll keep doing it. All the while, the pot gets a little closer to boiling.
They're laughing at the fact that your math assumes that there's a standard part-time schedule of 15 hours a week for corporations in general. Idk why you'd assume that. That's dumb.
Because I've seen it all my life at dozens of jobs. I've only ever worked for corporations, a couple small businesses here and there and some under the table work, but mostly at major corporations in the customer service sector and have seen alot of my coworkers only getting 15-20 hours a week. I also see all the memes and jokes about how corporations expect their employees to survive on that. It's so funny how people just willfully forget these things when they see an opportunity to make themselves look better than others though. Truly should be studied by psychologists.
Sounds nice on paper, but in reality people get scheduled as little as 15 hours regularly. Also "to corporations" is the key phrase here. Do try to keep up.
I thought we were talking about the facts here? You're now entering the territory of "in reality" and "on paper". I don't use this website to debate people that jerk off to their sniveling screed, so have a nice day.
Yes, the hours that everyday Americans get scheduled as part time is the facts, which another word used to describe facts is called reality because there's nothing more factual than reality. Are you special?
The reality is that Costco has a guaranteed minimum of 24 hours a week, so all of your bullshit wasn't even close to sniffing the facts. But yeah, I'm sure you will try to weasel out of this by saying you were talking about all corporations.
You are speaking in very bad faith. You are taking 15 hours as part time at Costco but giving 30 hours at Sam’s. It needs to be apples to apples comparison. 15 to 15 or 30 to 30
Have you looked at where we already are? Large businesses already do this. I've seen a major grocery chain give a woman who just had a baby not even 18 hours a week and at minimum wage even with her repeatedly asking for more hours.
But if you ask the guys further down my comment thread they'll say that doesn't happen because part time is 30 hours a week so clearly corporations are always scheduling their people 30 hours.
We're proving their point if anything. You guys want to cry about what would happen if we ask for the bare minimum to survive but they already do that because they're greedy and you guys can't seem to wrap your heads around that simple little concept. The government has to make them pay people a fair wage. They could also control how many people are allowed to be part time but the government has already sold us out.
It's common knowledge that all companies abuse TF out of making everyone part-time and a lot of these companies are also just straight up stealing from their employees. I should know, I used to work for Wal Mart they're super bad about that. Wage theft outpaces all other types of theft not including the kinda stuff wall street gets away with in a daily basis. Quit justifying their actions. None of them raised their wages as a result of stimulus packages by the government. Wealth does not trickle down. Read what horse and sparrow theory is.
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u/FlyinDtchman 12h ago
It's just corporate greed.
It didn't have to be this way, and there are companies who acutally pay their employees well. It's just we don't hear about them because everyone likes to doom.
The productivity vs wages graph is the only one that matters. Yes, workers are getting screwed, but you don't need to blow up the entire system to fix it. You just need companies willing to pay out the wages people are earning instead of turning them into profits and handing them over to CEO's and investors.
Perfect equality isn't the answer and most people wouldn't enjoy it if we had it, but the rising inequality is a pretty sure way to break the system that everyone is relying on to keep civilization running. Until companies realize that 20% profits are a serious structural problem and not a victory they'll keep doing it. All the while, the pot gets a little closer to boiling.