About half of us don't. Then there's the ones who know but don't want collective action because it would take money out of their pockets. It's a tough nut to crack
It's not just AI...this shit has been going on for a long time. It's H1Bs, it's losing healthcare, it's not having savings, it's not having a safety net. We are slaves to our employers because finding a another job, even before the orange pedo shit his pants everywhere, was a lot of work and for potentially just a raise that should have come with your previous one. Being unemployed for the majority of us in the US is a few months of bills paid or a single ER visit to homelessness.
I wish outlets would stop perpetuating the bullshit unemployment metric and instead use 'Functional Unemployemnt' becuase that's at a whopping 25%. That is to say 1 in 4 people are not paid a living wage and are effectively below the poverty line.
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Almacca@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 16d
How many problems with working in the USA could be solved if workers simply unionised?
the_q@piefed.social · 25 pts · 16d
Americans don't understand collective action in any capacity.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 16d
About half of us don't. Then there's the ones who know but don't want collective action because it would take money out of their pockets. It's a tough nut to crack
Almacca@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 16d
tHaT's SoCiaLiSm!! :eyeroll:
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 15d
It's not just AI...this shit has been going on for a long time. It's H1Bs, it's losing healthcare, it's not having savings, it's not having a safety net. We are slaves to our employers because finding a another job, even before the orange pedo shit his pants everywhere, was a lot of work and for potentially just a raise that should have come with your previous one. Being unemployed for the majority of us in the US is a few months of bills paid or a single ER visit to homelessness.
Funwayguy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 15d
I wish outlets would stop perpetuating the bullshit unemployment metric and instead use 'Functional Unemployemnt' becuase that's at a whopping 25%. That is to say 1 in 4 people are not paid a living wage and are effectively below the poverty line.