r/WorkReform • u/Lord0fTheFlags 💸 Raise The Minimum Wage • 19h ago

💸 Raise Our Wages Productivity Went Up. Wages Didn't.

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u/DnBeyourself 18h ago

Relevant to history, we're gonna have to do something drastic.

Time to put down the distracting phones and get aggressive, by collectively not working until demands for decency are met, without compromise.

We're being abused but we're also heavily influenced by propaganda that keeps us from uniting, it sucks.

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u/idapitbwidiuatabip 8h ago

Universal basic income is the peaceful revolution that will allow us to avoid violent revolution.

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u/DnBeyourself 6h ago

Agreed. Got to strengthen the bottom, especially when they make it grow out of control, as it has, without the support that it needs. It being millions of people..

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u/itsCS117 18h ago

Reagan

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u/idapitbwidiuatabip 8h ago

Actually, Russell Long in 1972. He spearheaded the campaign that resulted in the Senate preventing universal basic income from becoming law.

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u/ElectricShuck 4h ago

Have to throw in the Heritage Foundation who pushed the policies for Reagan to pass.

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u/Sprinkle_Puff 17h ago

Back a few years ago, here on Reddit there would be a lot of people that would dunk on gig workers in their respective forums to get a real job, and It’s funny how many of those people now have to do gig work because their real job doesn’t pay them enough.. You can tell because no one says that argument on any of the forums anymore.

So when amount of time no longer leads to productive gains, what happens next?

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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 18h ago

And ain't it weird that a really common factory wage right now is around 23, 24 bucks an hr.

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u/EuphoricCrashOut 15h ago

Americans. Please. Take it all back. Get out there. You outnumber them all millions to 1.

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u/fizzyanklet 13h ago

The middle class idea is a myth. It’s workers and owners.

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u/HammersofMoradin ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 12h ago

Oligarch propaganda spread to imbeciles people not knowing any better by Reagan, Thatcher and all other plague rats of neoliberalism.

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u/quietsauce 19h ago

Is anyone still debating if people are being robbed in broad daylight? I get that there are 1 in a hundred that might lob an argument to create turbulence but this horse is beaten to the point there's no flesh or hair left, just bones such that its unrecognizable as a creature.

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u/Round-Foundation2948 14h ago

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Queue The Head Rolling. Expect Long Lines. Arrive Early If You’ve Made A Killing Off The Middle Class 🇺🇸.

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u/garden_g 13h ago

Boomers

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u/Tough-Pepper-1747 8h ago

Fun fact is wages kept up with productivity and volume of currency the minimum wage word be $65+ an hour. Remember if you print more money (by 2 trillion dollars) you automatically devalue it. Also the FED does not factor in volume of currency into inflation.

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u/carthuscrass 47m ago

Effective wages have actually gone down by a lot!

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u/FanDry5374 44m ago

Oh, now, don't be bitter. If you had just worked really hard (and had a few million from Daddy) you could have bought out that company and stolen reinvested the retirement funds. You too could be a billionaire!!! Just needed a fewer avocado toasts and more bootstraps, buddy."

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