• marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1210 months ago

    No one cares if you “buy into” anything. It exists whether you believe it or not.

    The entire point of keeping unemployment at certain levels is so capitalists can dictate wages and responsibilities. It’s not a secret. Bourgeois media openly panics whenever unemployment levels get too low.

    • Neuromancer
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      110 months ago

      No, it doesn’t exist because you claim it’s true. It’s just silly talk. It is word vomit. I am paid for the work I do and the value I create. If I don’t like their offer, I can go somewhere else and make more. I control what I want to make.

      • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Right sure you do. I definitely believe you.

        You can believe whatever you want but that doesn’t change how the real world works outside your head.

        • Neuromancer
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          110 months ago

          That is how the real world works. I tell them what i want. They can either pay it or someone else will. I am good at what I do, and it’s known in the industry I am worth what I ask. I have never had anyone tell me no.

          • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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            910 months ago

            Sure, if that’s even true, then good for you.

            Again, you can believe whatever you want but that doesn’t change how the real world works outside your head.

            • Neuromancer
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              010 months ago

              This is how the real world work. Only in communism do you have to take what’s offered. Here you can refuse and negotiate your own wage.

              You can’t refuse that because it’s the truth. If I want 150 an hour. I won’t take less than that. I don’t need their job. They need me. I don’t need them.

              • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                10 months ago

                Cool good for you (if that’s even true)

                Anyway, in the very real world that we live in, unemployment is kept at certain levels so capitalists can dictate wages and responsibilities. It’s not a secret. Bourgeois media openly panics whenever unemployment levels get too low.

                • Neuromancer
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                  110 months ago

                  People panic because it means we have a shortage of workers, which will cause inflation. We have had low unemployment for years and it’s why wages keep going up. Mcdonald’s pays 20 an hour down the street from me. While Oregon has a higher minimum wage, the economy is pushing wages even higher. Now on the low end they don’t have as much bargaining power but at the high end we have a lot of bargaining power. That is how the real world works. Make sure you have a skill someone wants to pay for

                  • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    910 months ago

                    Yes, they are panicking because people have bargaining power to get higher wages. Are you still not connecting the dots there?

                    I have a skill and I am not struggling like some of my other comrades are. That does not make me blind to the purpose of unemployment or to the fact that if everyone in the world had my skill set then that would mean there are a lot of important jobs that aren’t getting done, a fact that, curiously, has completely escaped you.