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Feb 14, 2021 6:37 PM
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easyoneundone
these lazy ass americans will never stand up for anything
SaltyRimjob
I truly believe people need to unionize again. We need a new age Hoffa. As corrupt as he was, he helped the workers rights tremendously.
outthere987
I would have chosen a different word besides “riot”. Protest, strike maybe.
GreenAppel
The day I made the company $5k for a week of my work, about $300 outta their pocket is the day I decided to get a degree.
themagnanimousmegalomaniac
Yes this. A million times this.
JustSomePersonThere
JustSomePersonThere
crazywowow
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime ,that's why I poop on company time.
imcreativedamnit
Eat the rich.
islippedonmyslipper
That's what Carl Marx warned against. If the US gov doesn't socialize a part of the economy soon, some serious social discord may follow
islippedonmyslipper
I'm talking about socializing health care and taking power from big pharma and insurance companies
ispentwaytoolongthinkingaboutthis
You poor people would probably have better lives if you made more money. And all you sick ppl would be better if you stop being sick /s
Nuttley
Unlesss the government raises the minimum wage to a living wage nothing will change. Idm people being rich. But not by exploiting the WC
Grez1
Sealab2021
Greed is definitely ruining this country and trumpers are happy blaming foreigners for their lack of work. Nazi USA, here we come.
pleaseacknowledgethecat
It’s inevitable
eratosthenesearth
Saying from olden times: "The eagle shits on Friday." Friday is payday.
BoopleSnoot615
Is it a bad idea if every single worker went on strike and refused to work again until we get paid livable wages? Or am I too idealistic?
Badger421
That my friend is called a general strike, and you don't have to be an idealist to think they work.
RevolutionOnHerLips
take our hues back?
KEbmeistergeneral
Fight now, before those who can fight are too tired
JustSomePersonThere
DontLookBackInAnger
General strike.
FartSmarterNotHarder
Hello there
MatrimBloodyCauthon
Strike Kenobi
thevortexmaster
I owned a successful restaurant I paid my people well and didn't make a whole lot more than they did. Good small business people exist but>>
thevortexmaster
Most large corporations are terrible
AmZero85
I worked for a pizza shop owner who got caught not paying us our full overtime and tried to require us to work off the clock. 1/2
AmZero85
And he is the usual "small business owner" in my area. I have yet to meet a "good" small business owner in my area.
thevortexmaster
That sucks. They suck. I always paid overtime, paid days off, $5 over minimum and I made probably $30k a year trying to keep prices down>>>
thevortexmaster
Because in a small town people are cheap. Restaurants margins are so thin there's a reason most fail. Mind you this was 20 years ago
GreenTeaParty
Unions are good folks. Please, reevaluate the lie that all unions are corrupt, it is what you make it and is power: Unionize.
harpti
Wish this was true, unfortunately nothing has changed. Still major gap in earnings and somehow the middle class tricked into siding with top
shitonyourmom
Republicanism in a nutshell, sadly
Battle4ngel
"Still"? *checks trend*
shank1104
https://imgur.com/QvS2WZr
KextV8
What middle class$
Debadguy
Give it some time. Years of maltreatment will break them.
TevishSzat
"break them" into obedient slaves more likely
shmoogeeoogee
How many more?
harpti
That’s what I’m saying. We keep fighting, but the gap keeps growing.
Debadguy
So hear me out. We already have idiots who are dumb enough to storm the us capitol, and they got off with a slap on the wrist. We have
Debadguy
billionaires being tricked into losing a lot of money from redditors. Pretty much as I see it, the more we expose how weak they are, the
Debadguy
closer we are to making those steps towards reform. Or the guillotine. Whatever suits your fancy.
maximilianfragglebottom
the term "middle class" has a lot to do with tricking people making 50k into identifying with people making 250k and not those making 30k.
harpti
Just as much as tricking the people making 250k into identifying with people making 100mil
maximilianfragglebottom
word
DingleberryT3rry
This
MikeKeyser
part of me says, "if I just made $25/hr everything would be different" part of me doesn't believe that would really work
hotdoginathermos
blissblush
If I didn't know better, these could almost pass for lines from a RATM song. Solidarity
idontknowphilmaybe
I just pictured it in my head as I think it would sound performed by RATM... it was epic
Imhonestlypartying
It only happens in the way OP is thinking if everyone agrees what the problem is. Disinformation will keep us arguing over masks
Imhonestlypartying
While the 1% makes record profits
Sealab2021
74 million voted for Trump, 81 million for Biden and they don’t trust each other. That is the problem.
dukegonzo
It is almost cute you think this is just a US problem. It's the same all over the world.
Sealab2021
That’s 74 million who will happily blame foreigners for their lack of work. Be careful or you might just see the United Fascists States.
iamdanman
Cranbananarama
Took me forever to find the original version of this. Both work equally well.
DaMummy
strangecabalist
A+++++++
simplejacksoffhismeds
Feel the burn.
Edgarflaps
Unfortunately once the middle class is gone that might become a reality.
sbthree169000
It's already pretty much gone and a riot that can be for the 99% should happen and needs to succeed.
OGshogun
It’s been gone for a long time
emigrant22
What's unfortunate about that? Let the revolution begin. It was merely a veil from the wealth that was stolen from us all.
FourLegsGood
You don't know what you want.
ObeyTheFist
Fucking hell... Lots of comments below lumping middle class in with the 1%. Nice to see the right wing winning the propaganda wars. Idiots.
EuclidianCoitus
There are the owning class and the working class. Middle class are exploited every day just like the poor. Shackled with golden chains
RedneckFrank
It's a reality now baby doll
AHxCode
No no no its poverty working class middle class and upper class
FourLegsGood
There's no such thing as a middle class. There are only workers and capitalists.
Filanwizard
When it pops expect Wall Street to go first. If the hit team is smart they will raid the data center in NJ that runs it all. 1/
TimothyKaufman
Which Data Center?
Filanwizard
Raise wages or the super soakers of coffee get sprayed into the server racks. Sweetened coffee.
DuckSick
Nay do not negotiate with capitalist terrorists just hose them servers down.
BlurpBleepBoopERRORERROR
Middle class is societal lubricant.
sDsnAlien
Lol "middle class" earning 50k a year is the poverty line in a lot of places
cow042
Thats why middle class and such can be defined by location. I make middle class money because im in poor area not a big city.
NewNordicWarfare
50k household or 50k pr?
danopotato
Lol 100k and you’re still poor in SF ???
hufflesnuff
Ever wonder why capital got so geographically concentrated in the US? 30-40 years ago that ranch in Cleveland and the one in San Jose were =
hufflesnuff
You'd think companies would realize this and shift jobs to places where they need them, but no. Only jobs in Silicon Valley. Nowhere else.
mrtweeter04
In SF you need 2 people making 100k+ to even just make ends meet
John20012
Here I am looking at joining the military because there ain't no good jobs around.....
shamanbaptist
I am curious how the move to more remote working impacts the cost of living in places like SF, Boston, Manhattan.
howToLoseTheGame
Middle class is people oil.
LordBaneoftheSith
*petty bourgeoisie.
FourLegsGood
And worker aristocracy. If a middle class exists at all it contains those two groups. Arbitrary wealth classifications aren't helpful.
ridetheshoopuf
I also lament the gradual loss of middle class. YOU ARE JUST BEING WARNED: whatever you think the revolution is like, you're wrong. Every...
ridetheshoopuf
...single thing you dislike about a divided society with ridiculous disparities is going to be worse after the revolution. There is not a...
ridetheshoopuf
...single revolution in history of the world who toppled a system and replaced it with something better. If you do not have the ...
exoverne
I disagree partly. A revolution is a tool, by itself it's not good or bad, and it is always use as a last and extrem mesure.
exoverne
Ant I said partly because Yes sometime a revolution can result in a worse system than before. France got several revolutions for this reason
ridetheshoopuf
That's the point. It is a bad tool for the job. You don't use dynamites to kill mosquitos. Revolutions ALWAYS create a worse system. At...
Alamagordo
Drain the swamp
BeerBeardBear
So you’re anti-Revolution War? That was a revolution.
ridetheshoopuf
A good point and a few notes on that. 1. I don't want to get involved with semantics but that was a war of independence. The states enjoy...
ridetheshoopuf
...a fair bit of autonomy today. So the only way a revolution in US would succeed at achieving anything of that sort would be to break it...
ridetheshoopuf
...discipline to make 70 million not to vote for something obviously bad at peace time, I assure you, you are not going to be the...
ridetheshoopuf
...architect of whatever order the society falls back to after chaos. Use your power now to reform. Only opportunists benefit from chaos.
DaMummy
German's used a violent revolution, aka fascism, and now they're afraid of having corporate money in their government...still.
jetact12
Amen buddy. For starters vote out everybody who aquitted Trump.
Crowlands
The kind of person willing to "Remove" everyone who's causing these problems is a complete fucking psychopath.
Sealab2021
Truth. We’re as likely to have a fascist take over as a socialist revolution at this point. Both would be chaotic, bloody, and unpredictable