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The pandemic proved just how stupid and useless most of the jobs we do are and which we actually should all be splitting up our time to do them because they're essential.
We could all be working 15 hours a week in a veritable paradise of enforced abundance and sustainability.
We had rounds of applause here in Germany and then changed... absolutely nothing regarding those workers.
Oh shit. I thought "clapping for NHS workers" was a UK-only bout of absolute stupidity.
My peak body, the Australian Computer Society is advocating that we should be happy with the wages earned in the late 1990's, so clearly we're not essential.
Source: https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2023/it-teams--salaries--rebalancing--after-pandemic.html
My peak body
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This is how that went for me, working in the social/care sector (with kids):
During Covid we were praised. Except for a few weeks (in 2 years), we took care of their kids. Worked normally - not from home, obviously.
In this country, preschool childcare personnel are already on the bottom of the totem pole that is working anywhere in the social/care sector.
Of course, once we pushed through, we'd all get a raise! Right?!
Yeah, no, we got the corporate speech instead. How dire the situation is and that we must all pull together now: same shitty pay, more hours, less personnel, fewer days off. We had it too good so far (they really said that).
That was a few years ago already. I left the job. Other jobs aren't better. Working with kids sucks in this country, because people with CEO-like delusions of grandeur want to "streamline" it, meaning fewer workers, more kids, less budget. The shitty pay isn't even the most important thing tbh.
We all know where the bleeding dry of the social sector ends. This is the beginning.
It’s a disease of greed and they won’t stop until it kills the very systems on which we all depend.
Schrödinger's Essential Worker
Same applies to the military and our veterans. "Best I can do is Thank you for your service".
to be fair, a military in this day and age is used as a hegemonic weapon for capitalism’s desires and a state’s choice to genocide. those who knowingly volunteer for that deserve to be reminded what they joined at every chance we can get.
"Why do they always send the poor?" -- B.Y.O.B by System of a Down
You fail to remember that a lot of the meat the military machine runs on, the actual soldiers, is comprised of poor and or uneducated folk, and those with few better prospects. And why do they not have better prospects? Because the system we live in is designed to keep you uneducated and under economic slavery so that it never runs out of meat for that grinder.
Anything to make you keep living for them.