@GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
2026-10-22 22:24 UTC
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-23 03:54
The answer is because we haven’t figured out how to organize society so that wealth and power don’t consolidate. And also if we did, it would be challenging to get there. How Business Worked did a recent video Killing the Host which discusses why the ultra-wealthy engage in destructive behavior that kills the society they depend on.
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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 22:34
The system is built on eternal growth. Slowing down is not an option.
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@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-23 04:30
Because the rich have the money for propaganda, buying politicians and owning the media.
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@Flower@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-23 06:07
Because the rich can’t stand it out their wealth doesn’t grow. Their piece of the pie can grow because the entire pie is growing or by taking a bigger piece. These days the pie doesn’t grow like they want so they’re taking more of everybody else. That means you have to work more for less.
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-10-23 06:44
Your lazy work produces like 20 times what is used to produce few decades ago. Just by efficiency of systems and existence of digital spreadsheets. It’s also wasted in logistics steps because that’s cheaper than being efficient.
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@trolleyfuckergirl@lemmy.world 2026-10-23 02:53
The 40-hour workweek was standardized by socialists in the early 1900s. 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, and 8 hours for whatever else you wanted to do during the day. Obviously, that’s been exploited. I work 68 hours a week and still can’t afford health insurance, and my job doesn’t offer it.
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@im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2026-10-23 07:23
Maybe this isn’t very “lemmy” but I think the bottleneck isn’t really money, but the stuff you want. In Australia the main problem with the “housing crisis” is that all efforts to resolve it are on the demand side, and very few on the supply side. Giving first home buyers grants and discounts is great, but that increases demand and increases the price. Removing some of the ridiculous tax benefits to owning multiple properties is great, and has reduced demand somewhat, but it hasn’t solved the problem. To really solve the housing crisis you need a house for everyone that aspires to own one. In the last decade, having the people able to build the houses has been the real bottleneck. All of the able tradespeople are already building houses. We can’t build a million more in a year just because everyone has the money to buy them.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-10-23 07:40
There was a lot of progress until quite recently. Current retirees saw truly mind boggling changes during their lives. My mother (born in the 1940s) grew up in a house with no electricity and no running water. Now she’s retired and she can browse facebook on her mobile phone. My “father in law” bought his first house when he was in his twenties, paying cash with money saved from his first job. Their generation was not exploited and abused the way young people are today. They got to work less and less and managed to retire comfortably. Then political class broke their contract with voters and next generations are significantly worse off than previous ones (less intelligent as well) but a lot of people are still living comfortably enough not to complain. The way people participate in politics also changed. Polarization won over organization. Young people try to fight but without proper structures and strategy it quickly turns into violent lashing out and nothing is achieved. Is it going to change? Probably not. People in charge will keep exploiting divisions among us to further dismantle the system.
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@mirshafie@europe.pub 2026-10-23 08:56
Sixty hours a week? Tell me you’re Ametican without telling me that you are American.
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-23 18:06
The rise of steam power during the industrial revolution didn’t just result in people working fewer hours. Workers were much more productive than before, but they didn’t automatically get shorter work weeks. Getting an 8-hour work day required the workers to form powerful unions and go on strike. Those strikes were broken up by private security and cops. People were killed. But, eventually, decades later, the rich people with power were forced to negotiate and 8 hour days were the norm. I have known individual workers who had skills that were in high demand which gave them leverage. They negotiated deals like 4 day work weeks, or 30 hour work weeks because they could. But, for the average worker to get a shorter work week, it’s going to take collective action. It’s probably also going to require that blood be spilled. Unless people are angry enough to getting beaten or maybe killed, nothing’s going to change. Step 1 is joining a union.