The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states
The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states
Legislation prevents workers from striking without permission from the government.
A full time job should never result in being close anywhere close to any assistance programs.
We've let our society fail all of us.
We let corporations take over without limit or recourse.
Walmart pays a wage to people whose job it is to help other Walmart employees apply for government assistance. That's way cheaper to Walmart than paying people more. Then the government assistance comes from the lower 90% who do pay taxes.
Minimum wage hasn't been raised in decades. It has increased a bit only in a few places.
Over half (guesstimate) of prepared food workers do not have a steady income. They rely on a few customers to tip. And very rarely have any sick time or vacation time or health benefits.
You've eaten food that has been handled by someone sick with a fever because they were highly discouraged from staying home sick.
You know what? Fuck this. I'm so godamn sick of seeing people say "we let this happen" as if we can just suddenly not let it happen. This happens because our current society is just a rebranding of feudalism, and to not give the rich their due on responsibility is downright wrong. We did not let shit happen, WE attempted to survive and got fucked, and continued to get fucked. I've seen this enough times now that everyone one of you reading this better expect to read it again the next time you or I see anything remotely close to "WE lET ThIS HapPen"
I want to put this edit here because I didn't expect your comment to get nuked after mine, and because you do raise a lot of good and productive points. I was drunk when I wrote this and it came with a lot of anger that I should have held back. I just think you should reevaluate the first part, other than that, you're spot on.
Can't forget to mention that those Walmart employees usually turn around and use those food stamps and government assistance at Walmart due to whatever meager employee discount they get.
So now Walmart not only gets to pay their workers far below a living wage, they also get reimbursed by the government for all those food stamps their own employees spend at their stores. These corporations are the biggest "welfare queens" the world has ever seen.
Reminiscent of owing one's soul to the company store, eh?
This is how societies have traditionally operated. Far from failing, they are correcting back to the exploitative mean.
With no more free real estate to conquer and no frontier to expand into, we're boxed in by limited resources and forced to choose between socialism or barbarism.
Since we categorically and unequivocally proved Socialism Doesn't Work back in the 1980s, that only leaves one option.
They're not assistance programs for people, they're basically a wage subsidy for corporations.
…And last year the CEO made $31.4 million dollars
*stole
That's what i was looking for. Fuck these people. Tax the rich and put in beneficial social programs, not just programs for the rich companies to abuse.
Well obviously the flight attendant job is entry level and meant for teens living at home with their parents! It's not supposed to provide a living wage until you're more senior.
/s
And by "senior" we mean actually senior. Like, wrinkles, gray hair, liver spots; etc. Of course, if you're that old, you're too old to be a flight attendant, so sorry, you're not hired.
One of my favorite things about social media is how everyone is seemingly aghast at the egregious and corrupt results of capitalism, but every single election, you all insist to me that I have to vote for a capitalist as a moral imperative.
And it's been accelerating since Reagan, but 99% of voters aren't going to change. Ever.
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again."Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
reagan, bush jr., trump. I wish that party could not win and election so that we could have the democrats as the conservative party and start making real progress on shifting left rather than their continual wins moving us right.
muricaaaaaa
Man, Fortune running articles they would have never 10 years ago, they were like the WSJ in my recollection, what pivoted?
Boomers aren't the productive people anymore they're now just leeches - Gen X and lower are the workers now and most of us actually give a shit.
The benefits of incorporating in a Republican state: We can say none of our employees is on government assistance. (That's because our state doesn't have government assistance.)
Lol are you a sovereign citizen or something and don't recognize the feds?
Texas Republican governors have specifically rejected free money from the federal government that is supposed to go to healthcare and unemployment and education.
The current Texas governor has specifically told state employees to avoid federal money grants because there might be "woke" requirements to using the money.
Gotta keep em starving to keep weight down
All the people making below median wages need to get better jobs.
/s. (Was this necessary?)
Or pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
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Shouldn't have been.
The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.
Flight attendant? Well clearly their mistake is not living in a third world city, they constantly travel anyway.
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i mean they can't even afford to build their planes properly on account of all the stealing their executives are doing, you expect them to pay people too?