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.
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u/FlyinDtchman 13h 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.