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"People Don't Want to Work Anymore" Duh?

28 points speckx 2 hours ago 22 comments

ashwin42 2 hours ago | parent

Gotta love this one.

h8top245 1 hour ago | parent

truth nuke

Varelion 1 hour ago | parent

Wealth inequality will destroy America. Tax wealth. Tax wealth violently.

dominotw 1 hour ago | parent

each technological advance increases wealth inequality. Problem is not wealth inequality its things getting worse for ppl low on totem pole vs getting better. I am sure ppl wouldnt mind inequlity if things were getting cheaper, healthcare being more accesible ect. Thats what AI promised but never delivered. Nothing has gotten cheaper like predicted.

f1yght 1 hour ago | parent

People don’t mind mild inequality. Some people have more, that’s fine. When it’s extreme it’s a problem. 100% we need to make sure everyone is taken care of before we worry about if someone can have even more money than they will ever need.

malicka 1 hour ago | parent

No, it’s definitely the insane amounts of inequality we have today. The inequality is why there is less money flowing through the economy, why folks with incredible amounts of wealth can buy media outlets and attempt to buy elections to further their interests to hinder attempts to make things cheaper for average people. The inequality gives them their power, it’s the whole point.

mrtesthah 13 minutes ago | parent

Absolutely. Lack of effective enforcement of anti-trust and consumer protection laws are major factors in rising costs of everyday people. Corporations and oligarchs get to do whatever they want and suffer no consequences for it, because Citizens United gives power to those with the most wealth.

There’s a reason why half the country would vote for a democratic socialist now.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6178694-voters-support...

draygonia 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe raising the minimum wage was never a good idea and we should instead consider a wage cap that taxes heavily those that make above some insane figure everyone should be happy with... $10m a year? That seems generous enough for now until someone turns the money printer back on.

elevation 15 minutes ago | parent

Confiscate all billionaire liquidity and distribute it as a dividend today and you get a one-time $$$ payment for every citizen. Liquidate all their assets and you get another $$$ payment, but you've dismantled businesses which have massively raise the standard of living accross the country (next day delivery of goods, ubiquitous home internet) and ended many jobs. You've also dis-incentivized a lot of people future ambitions.

jmcqk6 10 minutes ago | parent

Why are you assuming those are the only available options?

dyauspitr 1 hour ago | parent

I’m going to take it a step ahead and say no one has ever wanted to work the kind of hours most people work. Left to their own devices people might work 15 hours a week but very few would voluntarily work 40-60 hours per week. It’s always been about it being a necessity for survival.

f1yght 1 hour ago | parent

He talks about that in the article, but people did less work than they do now when all they did was survival. We are working more than people who were at subsistence levels.

bluefirebrand 55 minutes ago | parent

The type of work people used to do was a lot more varied too. Even specialists would have to do more work than just their speciality

As people have specialized more and more we spend more time on a much more narrowly defined set of tasks

And we spend a lot more time per week doing just those tasks

dh2022 1 hour ago | parent

OMG the swearing on this article. Whatever message the author wanted to convey is lost on me - I could not go beyond the first paragraph.

OKRainbowKid 1 hour ago | parent

Your loss!

I found it refreshing compared to polished corpo speak, and I think it aligns with the message the author wants to convey.

dh2022 49 minutes ago | parent

The language used in that article segmented the audience very effectively :)

imimayj1337 41 minutes ago | parent

I also found it refreshing - particularly given the semi lobotomised LLM slop we're seeing most articles written in nowadays. It's nice to see someone's actual tone coming through even if it is peppered with profanity!

yladiz 48 minutes ago | parent

I have a similar disdain to high levels of unnecessary cursing in something written, like the trend of "The Fucking Weather" style things, but I think this wasn't particularly noticeable. I would stick with it to the end.

skullone 53 minutes ago | parent

A bit "edgelord" and really not sure, but I sense schizophrenia too.

zephyrthenoble 33 minutes ago | parent

Kind of unrelated but sorry that you are currently unmedicated. I have found that it's nice to take a break of like one day from my medication but, in line with the point of the article, I find life too difficult to handle unmedicated for more than a day at a time.

nxm 19 minutes ago | parent

People don’t want to work anymore, but they keep expecting more from their already debt loaded governments - the free ride has to end at some point.

LoFiSamurai 15 minutes ago | parent

You actually believe that most people are getting a “free ride”? You’re reducing this to simple laziness?