cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24998458
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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Bravo for spending your time arguing with a pedant, truly more patient than I would've been. People like that make lemmy insufferable. They're just looking to score a point in a debate and will find any angle to do it. Productive discussion isn't as important as SLAMMING the "opponent" with a gotcha, it's exhausting.
It's interesting to me. I learned some things from the link about democratic confederalism. But yea, "exhausting" is a pretty good word for it over the long term, I often don't really engage with it. The whole pattern of "I'm going to tell you what YOU think, and what you said, and why the strawman is all wrong" is pretty difficult to interact with, and requires this incredibly tedious process of endlessly clarifying and repeating what it was that I actually said.
I have had it happen where after going through that process for some time, someone realizes that we're actually largely on the same team as far as some big issues, so maybe it is worthwhile. That's definitely a minority of the times, but it does happen.