#raisetheminimumwage — Public Fediverse posts
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Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary Nominee, Touts Tax Cuts for the Rich
#RaisetheMinimumWage #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #TrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy
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#GOTV canvassing for #PropA and #Amendment3 in suburban #StLouis yesterday. Lots of people had already voted (yay!), but lots of ground to cover to see these ballot measures through. You can vote no-excuse early in #Missouri through November 4. Or on November 5 (Election Day).
Voting for these measures would #RaisetheMinimumWage & guarantee paid sick leave (PropA) and #EndTheBanMO, restoring abortion rights in Missouri (Amendment 3) With your support, they can pass!
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#GOTV canvassing for #PropA and #Amendment3 in suburban #StLouis yesterday. Lots of people had already voted (yay!), but lots of ground to cover to see these ballot measures through. You can vote no-excuse early in #Missouri through November 4. Or on November 5 (Election Day).
Voting for these measures would #RaisetheMinimumWage & guarantee paid sick leave (PropA) and #EndTheBanMO, restoring abortion rights in Missouri (Amendment 3) With your support, they can pass!
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#GOTV canvassing for #PropA and #Amendment3 in suburban #StLouis yesterday. Lots of people had already voted (yay!), but lots of ground to cover to see these ballot measures through. You can vote no-excuse early in #Missouri through November 4. Or on November 5 (Election Day).
Voting for these measures would #RaisetheMinimumWage & guarantee paid sick leave (PropA) and #EndTheBanMO, restoring abortion rights in Missouri (Amendment 3) With your support, they can pass!
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#GOTV canvassing for #PropA and #Amendment3 in suburban #StLouis yesterday. Lots of people had already voted (yay!), but lots of ground to cover to see these ballot measures through. You can vote no-excuse early in #Missouri through November 4. Or on November 5 (Election Day).
Voting for these measures would #RaisetheMinimumWage & guarantee paid sick leave (PropA) and #EndTheBanMO, restoring abortion rights in Missouri (Amendment 3) With your support, they can pass!
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#GOTV canvassing for #PropA and #Amendment3 in suburban #StLouis yesterday. Lots of people had already voted (yay!), but lots of ground to cover to see these ballot measures through. You can vote no-excuse early in #Missouri through November 4. Or on November 5 (Election Day).
Voting for these measures would #RaisetheMinimumWage & guarantee paid sick leave (PropA) and #EndTheBanMO, restoring abortion rights in Missouri (Amendment 3) With your support, they can pass!
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Amazon flyer says hardest-up workers might get gift from Peccy the mascot | Amazon | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/18/amazon-workers-holiday-wishes-peccy
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A few years old but still applicable. With "the market" in the headlines this is just a reminder.
We All Have a Stake in the Stock Market, Right? Guess Again - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-economy.html
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Communism always gets a bad rap.
You're supposed to cringe when you see that hammer and sickle. You're supposed to clutch all of your precious private property in fear and horror. But remember what the hammer and sickle represents: Labor. Workers' rights.
Yeah, the Soviet Union fucked it up and ended up creating a class of oligarchs and building concentration camps and all sorts of other horrific shit.
But many great luminaries throughout history including people like Frida Kahlo and WEB DuBois came to the conclusion that labor would never prevail under capitalism. And history has proven them to be correct.
The US currently has about a 10.8% union membership, down from about 45% during parts of the 20th century. And as one would expect, with the decline of labor unions, wages have stagnated, especially since 1980.
Coincidentally, 1980 is when we elected one of the most anti-labor presidents to date. Ironically it was the former president of the labor union Screen Actors Guild, Ronald #Reagan who ended up crushing the public sector union PATCO, and setting in motion a chain of events that has lowered wages and hurt American workers for nearly half a century.
I'm not a communist. I don't think the state should own the means of production. I think there should be limited private property. And when I say limited I mean less than a billion dollars per person. I mean less private property than it takes to hijack the government and oppress workers on a permanent basis.
Can we do that? Can we just outlaw billionaires and say that any individual who accumulates more than a billion dollars in net assets has to turn the excess over to the government, to be put toward public goods like healthcare, social security, and education?
That would only impact just over 2,000 billionaires, globally, who currently hold more wealth than the poorest 4.6 billion people, combined.
Yes, we should absolutely take their assets over $1 billion, by force! It would change the world more than any other single financial event in history. We could solve hunger and poverty nearly overnight.
And it would create massive economic growth as demand for goods and services increased as more people would be brought into the global middle class.
Until we get rid of our fear and loathing of the hammer and sickle, I'm afraid that every attempt to improve workers' rights, and the human condition generally, is going to fail.
No system that's ever existed in the history of the world has ever been anything close to perfect in terms of justice. But because systems can't be perfect, most people insist we shouldn't even try to make them better.
We should. We could start by making billionaires illegal. Who needs more than $1 billion--and for what possible purpose?
#socialism #fridakahlo #webdubois #communism #workersrights #raisetheminimumwage #confiscatewealth
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People who argue against raising the minimum wage are literally arguing that some people do not deserve to be able to afford the basics of life even if they work full-time. #WorkersRights #RaisetheMinimumWage
