I want to work because it’s how I pay my bills and enjoy doing it. Yeah it would be nice to not have to work but money doesn’t exactly grow on trees.
No…thats not a fair comparison.
I want to play video games. I haven’t had a chance to play in weeks.
I work because there are bills. I have to be coerced to come into work with money.
NOBODY has ever wanted to work. The only difference now is, employers don’t want to pay a living wage anymore.
Memes like this are like the word art that’s hung up in homes. It gets a lot of passive attention but if you stop to think about it, it’s all really fucking dumb.
the 1% are shitting their collective pampers over the peasant class slowly but surely beginning to realize just how exploited we are, and how fucked they would be if it actually got to the point where we all organized
edit: they wouldn’t actually be “fucked,” they’d just be slightly less of a billionaire, which is still unacceptable to them. so fuck’em
They’re really not, though. No one is doing shit about it, so they’re fine.
Still a long way to go before the French Revolution, and then it’d be way way harder to pull that one off.
There are times where I wonder if these public mass shootings are sometimes a guy at the end of his rope, with no support system, and no reason to live. So he goes out buys a machine gun with enough firepower that could shoot down a building.
Then just goes ham. In his own mind he’s “getting back at the man!”
My only doubt though, is these shootings never happen where it would affect the man. Its always at like a theater, or a grocery store.
You never hear of suicide bombers blowing up microsoft hq, or the IRS building.
So I’m not saying I’m right. Theres even some evidence to be argued that I’m wrong.
Still though. Sometimes I wonder.
Not really. They’re still sowing division among the peasantry, and it’s still working. People want someone to blame for their troubles, and the 1% is all to happy to give you a target based on your demographics.
Target…the 1%. How do more people not get this???
Yes, but speaking as a white male, alomst everyone in the 1%, at least in the USA, looks like me. Obviously I know they’re the enemy, but there’s a lot of us and it’s very easy for the 1% to convince us that marginalized groups are the problem (Blacks, trans people, immigrants;etc).
Brother I can tell you with all my heart I enjoy the crap out of my job. If I were independently wealthy would I spend less time at work? Sure, but only because it would allow me the ability to work on other projects at the same time. And no, I’m not some crazy workaholic that stays late and works weekends, in fact I make a point not to work overtime. That doesn’t change the fact that I genuinely want to work.
And if we did a family fued style poll of 100 people, how many points do you think you’d get with that opinion? Would it even make the board?
When it comes to assessments of job satisfaction, about half of U.S. workers who are not self-employed (51%) report being extremely or very satisfied with their job overall; 37% say they are somewhat satisfied, while 12% are not too or not at all satisfied with their job.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/30/how-americans-view-their-jobs/
You have to understand that most humans want their lives to have a purpose, and their job is one of the things that can provide that sense of purpose. If it’s a halfway decent job you’ll have a group of similar people all working together towards a common goal. It’s a miniature community, even if it’s not the one you’d turn to for emotional support.
I don’t want to work because I don’t feel like my goals of owning a house, having a car, and still having some disposable income are achievable.
I don’t think of those as goals. Those are the basics.
It’s weird, I pay well and have good benefits, and everyone seems to want to work.
