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@alex

The wealthy have been griping about laziness in the lower classes since forever.

Turn the argument on its head:
"A generation that will never afford a home thanks to a rapacious 1%, has decided to work their designated hours at their designated pay level.

This is upsetting the leisure class that relied on labor exploitation to keep their wealth."

truthout.org/articles/the-lazi

nytimes.com/2024/04/07/nyregio

Paul Fairie has newspaper clippings going back 100 years...
mstdn.ca/@paulisci/11151151865

Truthout · Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. GirouxBy C.J. Polychroniou
Nicole Parsons

@alex

The long history of rich people complaining that no one wants jobs that are low wage with poor working conditions.

In effect, the rich complain that the poor aren't helping the rich stay rich.

What happens when workers balk and refuse to participate in a system that immiserates themselves and only benefits one side?

zarah-ceu.org/bitter-years-of-

daily.jstor.org/how-america-tr

zarah-ceu.org“Bitter Years of Exploitation”: Domestic Workers’ (Un)organized Labour Struggles (1890s-1938) – ZARAH

@Npars01 @alex the whole claim of the article is also pure bullshit - Gen Z employees are better behaved and hard working when treated well, and aren't as distracted by drugs/alcohol or outright untrustworthy as Gen X (I'm Gen X and can remember how most of our generation where often hungover or either coming down from or still on drugs during working hours, and theft from employers was rife, that was the other side of the "hustle"..

@vfrmedia @alex

Several industries rely on employees being high for their profits.

Oil field workers & meth or speed - to keep workers working long hours unsafely.

Finance workers & cocaine - to give workers that god-complex to make risky decisions that crash the economy or bankrupt millions.

Sales workers & alcohol - to wine & dine clients that end marriages and make parents into strangers to their families.

@Npars01 @alex in UK this started being clamped down on by the mid 2000s and by the 2010s new DUI laws tested for drugs as well as alcohol so nowadays these industries are a lot "cleaner" outside the cities (as they generally involve driving to and from workplaces, and you can test positive days after taking anything). It has however led to a whole load of miserable, angry folk who have substituted alcohol for the drugs (as that clears the system a lot quicker)

@vfrmedia @alex

There's a vast difference between what happens on the job at American corporations & what is supposed to happen according to regulations.

In several examples, simply transferring ownership to a foreign held subsidiary can negate regulation & oversight.

When no one on-site speaks the language of the safety inspector or the supervisor changes every few weeks, it's easy to forestall worker safety enforcement.

Also bribery of the inspector is very commonplace

@Npars01 @alex the UK is not only stricter regulated, but physically way smaller, all major roads covered by CCTV and citizens really love dashcams and door cameras. Its often not workplace testing which gets folk caught, but they are sleep deprived/feeling sketchy after a heavy weekend, commit a minor traffic violation and are spotted by cops (or someone with a dashcam uploads their footage to one of various "extra eyes" portals), and they are nicked for DUI and banned for 1-3 years

@Npars01 @alex there aren't as many traffic cops on patrol, so what often happens is folk think they are still getting away with it (especially partydrugs use at weekends) but they've been quietly put on an ANPR shitlist and *months* later they are pulled over midweek and caught. As UK is still very car-dependent, its a big life setback to get banned from driving, which is also why Gen Y don't party anywhere as hard as previous generations did (and if they aren't boy racers tend to drive safer)