It's ok if you can retire with benefits and a pension. Anything else is exploitation
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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Well that is still exploitation, just nicer exploitation.
But, being nice and even slightly generous while exploiting your employees is how you get them to stick around at best and how you get them to not rise up en masse and drag you and your friends down main street until the screaming stops.
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When it reliably and effectively supplies things like housing and surplus resources people can get real used to the 9-5.
What else do you suggest people do 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 50 odd years?
Whatever the fuck they want. Not being exploited all the time, for example.
Exploited? NOW That's What I Call a Strong Word, vol. 73
Some people do volunteering. They work for free, on their own free time. No one's forcing them to work. Even at paid work, they are free to leave, innit? Pretty sure plenty of people over history had to work and had no option. But these folks can even choose where they'd like to work? And can then try their luck, trying to match with the employer. Make it Tinder, and I'm sold. Employers and employees swiping left and right on each other. Gamify it as well. People love games. Working will be a breeze when they unlock achievements. Give 'em a sick soundtrack as well. And when they "retire", give 'em more of the same, but mirrored. New mode unlocked upon completion. Maybe that's afterlife. Life all over again, but everything is mirrored. Also, LinkedIn Shorts. Short 1m videos. On your feed. All of it. Replace the feed. LinkTok. And one in every three to five posts, an ad. Gotta watch 5-10s at least before continuing. Unless premium+, in which you can skip immediately. Free users gotta watch the whole ad, though. Regular premium gets the ad skip. Ads are also limited to a minute, though. And make LinkedIn mandatory for work
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It's absolutely wild that these anti work types actually believe that food just magically spawns in your fridge.
Electricity? Magic lightning from a wall socket! You don't have to pay for anything, you don't have to work, nobody has to do anything productive, everything just magically gets done because we live in heaven and God provides plentiful. Break a bone? You don't need hospitals where humans have to gasp work as a doctor and be all responsible and shit, that just heals with magic!
We don't need anyone to do real jobs, we don't need anyone to be responsible or care, we don't need anyone to even try, because in this awesome world everything is resolved automatically with magic!
Get your collective heads out of your asses
No shit, sick of this lunacy. I figure it's mostly kids with shit jobs who have these takes.
I'm sure the guy at the tire shop isn't loving every second of work, but I need tires. I didn't like working in a reprographics shop, but builders need blueprints. Ever bought a used car in America? My last job likely had a hand in getting that car to you.
Yes, we work more than we need to and don't get a fair share of our labor. I get that. There are gross injustices. I get that. But this notion that we shouldn't have to work is immature at best.
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