Meanwhile, in Florida, the GOP is busy banning water breaks for working people

Please vote in November!

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    7 months ago

    totally agree. I remember in the '90s, we were told that because of technology, we would have way more leisure time and everyone wouldn’t have to work so hard.

    The exact opposite happened as productivity skyrockets and wages stagnate. it’s time to fix that with a 34 hour work week!

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      We’re literally never going to have that utopia as long as we maintain this “ownership class.”

      We “don’t deserve” the fruits of the increased productivity because they came with the technology and machines that the ownership class owns.

      “They deserve the profit because they paid for the machines.”

      We will literally never have that utopia because the workers don’t own anything.

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      It wasn’t just the 90’s. That’s been happening since the Industrial Revolution.

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      Hell how many stories have there been of people getting fired for automating their job haha.