Post #3466206

2025-02-11 15:11 UTC

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 54/n This article is hard to stomach for all those of us currently looking for work, and not finding anything suitable, or anything at all. But it’s good that at least rising #unemployment is recognised now. My own #redundancy last year and subsequent struggles have made me so alert to all these wider structural changes; I am really scared that this may be just the beginning. Terrible combination of AI and money going only to the rich https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/10/britons-hunting-for-a-job-uk-jobseekers-pay?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green 2025-03-25 06:06

#FollowTheMoney 🧵55/n “Keri said her father had been “powered by unconditional love” but he felt the government took advantage of the nearly 6 million people like him who care for a loved one, saving the taxpayer at least £162bn a year.” This reminded of a thought I had a while back: how salaries/wages are directly negatively correlated with love. When you do something you love, or out of love, this is instantly punished by capitalism. Carers, nursery workers - https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/mar/24/nobody-found-him-in-time-how-neglect-and-stress-led-to-the-deaths-of-a-full-time-carer-and-his-son?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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