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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.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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Escalation takes build up. The French revolution was all murmurs and bitching until it wasn't
Not just build up, but actual conflict.
Revolutionaries aren't spontaneous creations. It takes decades of conflict between the population and the state to harden the people into what eventually becomes the revolutionary army.
Almost everybody here with their soft bodies and their soft minds is not capable of taking part in 6-48 months of revolutionary civil war tomorrow. You have to look at the conflicts of France over the last 10 years between its population and the state to understand what prolonged build up of radicals and radical forces looks like. Decades of a population actively doing battle with its state over various national things before ever reaching the point of "fuck it we ball".
It feels that at this point, the ruling class has gotten so good at giving us just enough to keep us from outright revolution. It's little bonuses here and there, it's providing just enough to keep us afloat long enough to get through the next election, it's information manipulation to have us arguing with each other rather than focusing our anger on them.
It's going to be extremely difficult to break that control.
Don't forget the endless money spent on propaganda, convincing people that companies are good and everyone fighting for workers' rights are evil, painting the latter as greedy and corrupt assholes with subversive intents
That's true but I wonder if it translates to modern times.
I should learn about the Arab Spring...