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ixnar  ·  3913 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?

You only have as many responsibilities as you take on, and the bar of demand is entirely in your head. It's the old trap of needing to compare yourself to others to be happy. Make the workers realize this so they may free themselves, and happiness might follow. Plus we might get rid of this pesky need to consume, which is the cause of wage slavery in the first place





nowaypablo  ·  3912 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are right about it being in your head, and I ended up trying to justify my point by comparable two time periods which I still think are completely incomparable..

My issue is that you say it so simply it is almost patronizing, I urge you to imagine yourself in the position of that woman.

    Make the workers realize this so they may free themselves, and happiness might follow. Plus we might get rid of this pesky need to consume, which is the cause of wage slavery in the first place

That sounds like a great objective, but how exactly are we supposed to get there?

ixnar  ·  3908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know. Art? Implant the idea that things aren't right. Or just engage in some left-y local political movement

And you're right, I was being a bit patronizing. Sorry about that