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Wage Slavery The System We’re Told Is “Freedom” Part 17

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This is Part 17 of *Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination*...

#Survival #WageSlavery #NotFreedom #StateControl #Law #Violence #Capitalism

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"It is not always clear to management, staff, clients, and customers what the proper level of staffing should be. And it is not always clear why a business is understaffed: Can the firm not find enough qualified workers, or is management deliberately trying to cut costs by heaping more work on fewer people? But in recent years, both the extent and impact of understaffing have emerged, and it is not just disgruntled workers making the case.

A 2024 Kennedy School survey of 14,000 workers found 53 percent believe their workplace is “always” or “often” understaffed. Surely, workers will often agitate for adequate staffing, while bosses will push employees to do more with less. But researchers looked into public-health agencies and found many need to hire 80 percent more workers to be fully staffed. Mt. Sinai Health System in New York was ordered to pay $2 million in 2024 due to critical understaffing in emergency departments, labor and delivery units, and oncology. A Journal of the American Medical Directors Association article correlated low levels of staffing at nursing homes (especially in poor neighborhoods) with increased use of antipsychotic medications.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general determined that 77 percent of “critical facilities” for air traffic controllers are staffed below the required 85 percent threshold, with New York and Miami at 54 percent and 66 percent, respectively. State officials in Texas reduced the capacity of the county jail serving the Houston area due to chronic understaffing. In countless news reports of unionization campaigns and strike threats, from Starbucks to major hospitals to railroad workers, you will see “understaffing” mentioned as a key concern. The trend affects white-collar workers, too; 83 percent of millennials report that they take on up to six tasks beyond their job description due to turnover."

https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

#USA #Understaffing #ClassWarfare #Capitalism #WageSlavery

"It is not always clear to management, staff, clients, and customers what the proper level of staffing should be. And it is not always clear why a business is understaffed: Can the firm not find enough qualified workers, or is management deliberately trying to cut costs by heaping more work on fewer people? But in recent years, both the extent and impact of understaffing have emerged, and it is not just disgruntled workers making the case.

A 2024 Kennedy School survey of 14,000 workers found 53 percent believe their workplace is “always” or “often” understaffed. Surely, workers will often agitate for adequate staffing, while bosses will push employees to do more with less. But researchers looked into public-health agencies and found many need to hire 80 percent more workers to be fully staffed. Mt. Sinai Health System in New York was ordered to pay $2 million in 2024 due to critical understaffing in emergency departments, labor and delivery units, and oncology. A Journal of the American Medical Directors Association article correlated low levels of staffing at nursing homes (especially in poor neighborhoods) with increased use of antipsychotic medications.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general determined that 77 percent of “critical facilities” for air traffic controllers are staffed below the required 85 percent threshold, with New York and Miami at 54 percent and 66 percent, respectively. State officials in Texas reduced the capacity of the county jail serving the Houston area due to chronic understaffing. In countless news reports of unionization campaigns and strike threats, from Starbucks to major hospitals to railroad workers, you will see “understaffing” mentioned as a key concern. The trend affects white-collar workers, too; 83 percent of millennials report that they take on up to six tasks beyond their job description due to turnover."

https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

#USA #Understaffing #ClassWarfare #Capitalism #WageSlavery

"It is not always clear to management, staff, clients, and customers what the proper level of staffing should be. And it is not always clear why a business is understaffed: Can the firm not find enough qualified workers, or is management deliberately trying to cut costs by heaping more work on fewer people? But in recent years, both the extent and impact of understaffing have emerged, and it is not just disgruntled workers making the case.

A 2024 Kennedy School survey of 14,000 workers found 53 percent believe their workplace is “always” or “often” understaffed. Surely, workers will often agitate for adequate staffing, while bosses will push employees to do more with less. But researchers looked into public-health agencies and found many need to hire 80 percent more workers to be fully staffed. Mt. Sinai Health System in New York was ordered to pay $2 million in 2024 due to critical understaffing in emergency departments, labor and delivery units, and oncology. A Journal of the American Medical Directors Association article correlated low levels of staffing at nursing homes (especially in poor neighborhoods) with increased use of antipsychotic medications.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general determined that 77 percent of “critical facilities” for air traffic controllers are staffed below the required 85 percent threshold, with New York and Miami at 54 percent and 66 percent, respectively. State officials in Texas reduced the capacity of the county jail serving the Houston area due to chronic understaffing. In countless news reports of unionization campaigns and strike threats, from Starbucks to major hospitals to railroad workers, you will see “understaffing” mentioned as a key concern. The trend affects white-collar workers, too; 83 percent of millennials report that they take on up to six tasks beyond their job description due to turnover."

https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

#USA #Understaffing #ClassWarfare #Capitalism #WageSlavery

While #racism was pervasive in all branches of the #military, the Marine Corps stood out for its hostility to Black Americans. From 1798 until 1942, the #Marines refused Black Americans the opportunity to serve.

Matthew F Delmont

#quote #quotes #fascism #oppression #repression #militaryindustrialcomplex #slavery #statism #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #wageslave #wageslavery

While #racism was pervasive in all branches of the #military, the Marine Corps stood out for its hostility to Black Americans. From 1798 until 1942, the #Marines refused Black Americans the opportunity to serve.

Matthew F Delmont

#quote #quotes #fascism #oppression #repression #militaryindustrialcomplex #slavery #statism #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #wageslave #wageslavery

While #racism was pervasive in all branches of the #military, the Marine Corps stood out for its hostility to Black Americans. From 1798 until 1942, the #Marines refused Black Americans the opportunity to serve.

Matthew F Delmont

#quote #quotes #fascism #oppression #repression #militaryindustrialcomplex #slavery #statism #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #wageslave #wageslavery

While #racism was pervasive in all branches of the #military, the Marine Corps stood out for its hostility to Black Americans. From 1798 until 1942, the #Marines refused Black Americans the opportunity to serve.

Matthew F Delmont

#quote #quotes #fascism #oppression #repression #militaryindustrialcomplex #slavery #statism #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #wageslave #wageslavery

While #racism was pervasive in all branches of the #military, the Marine Corps stood out for its hostility to Black Americans. From 1798 until 1942, the #Marines refused Black Americans the opportunity to serve.

Matthew F Delmont

#quote #quotes #fascism #oppression #repression #militaryindustrialcomplex #slavery #statism #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #wageslave #wageslavery

"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]

About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.

Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."

https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare

"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]

About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.

Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."

https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare

"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]

About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.

Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."

https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare

"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]

About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.

Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."

https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare

"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]

About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.

Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."

https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare

"Rent A Human and other platforms like it will benefit from a technological shift that won’t change the current structure of labor and class relations — they will turbocharge them. Existing platforms such as Taskrabbit still require time, effort, and attention to delegate each task. Rent A Human, however, liberates the wealthy from the constraint of time and attention.

This relationship allows for a new dynamic — managerial compression — enabled by the digitized platform and AI. Your run-of-the-mill princeling living on the Upper West Side or Bel Air, or in whatever silk-stocking enclave he calls home, can wake up and instruct an AI agent to “complete this week’s to-do list.” However much Taskrabbit and its ilk have made easier the task of summoning vassals to attend to whatever errand and chore, they still require discrete requests and commands. That small expenditure of time has now been removed. Digital grandees can now instruct their AI agent to peel their grapes, wait in lines overnight for new sneaker drops, secure the last gluten-free scone from their favorite café, and test new oat milks for froth — all before leaving for Pilates — with little more than a spoken command."

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-exploitation

#AI #AIAgents #RentAHuman #WageSlavery #LaborExploitation

"Now that I have college-age kids myself, I’m once again seeing these dynamics firsthand. Corporations recruit students as early as freshman year, offering high-paying summer internships that are hard to resist. Preprofessional programs—such as Harvard’s Undergraduate Consulting Group, Princeton’s Tiger Capital Management, and the Blue Chips at the University of Chicago—seek out students, some even before college, and socialize them into these tracks as soon as they set foot on campus. Other organizations don’t have the resources to compete, making them less visible to students and less prestigious.

Despite their lofty mission statements about developing civic leaders, few schools push back against this corporate career funnel. Most colleges profess to be neutral when it comes to first jobs—but they benefit from the funding streams provided by prospective employers, who pay colleges thousands of dollars a year, and in some cases upwards of $20,000, to promote themselves to students through career-services offices.

Many students today are, understandably, anxious about the rise of AI and its effects on entry-level roles. But this development could also give us an opportunity to change the norms around first-job choices. Many corporations will soon need fewer staffers straight out of college to do routine work, but they will still need people among their senior ranks with strong leadership qualities.

Companies will therefore have every incentive to push back their recruiting timelines and encourage young people to acquire crucial human skills first—the kinds of skills that can best be developed by working in communities to tackle social problems. And young people themselves, even those who might want to run a major company someday, would benefit immensely from devoting the early years of their careers to such challenges."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/first-jobs-graduates-predict-future/685892/

#FirstJobs #Schools #HigherEd #JobMarket #WageSlavery

"This might at least help to pose the problem, which is not so much that workers as a whole are turning to the right as that the class is fundamentally fractured by the material interests deriving from the market position of its component parts as Weber noted long ago. Framed in this way, the necessary strategy would seem to be not to accommodate the rightward drift to little avail, but to find a basis on which to suture that divide, one that speaks both to highly specific, culturally inflected market interests as well as class-wide interests rooted in the common experience of wage labour.

This politics must start from the observation that the economic interests of wage earners under capitalism are highly differentiated and can point in different, even contradictory political directions. Class interests and economic interests are by no means identical. It is not a matter of appealing to ‘economic’ interests over ‘social’ or ‘cultural’ interests (misleadingly termed ‘identity’ politics). Rather, it is a matter of developing a materialist politics that is at once specific and general, and which addresses workers’ lives in the experientially accessible realm of market relations, and their potential in the experientially distant structure of ownership."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/first-principles

#Politics #Left #LeftWing #Capitalism #ClassWarfare #PoliticalEconomy #WageSlavery #IdentityPolitics

"This might at least help to pose the problem, which is not so much that workers as a whole are turning to the right as that the class is fundamentally fractured by the material interests deriving from the market position of its component parts as Weber noted long ago. Framed in this way, the necessary strategy would seem to be not to accommodate the rightward drift to little avail, but to find a basis on which to suture that divide, one that speaks both to highly specific, culturally inflected market interests as well as class-wide interests rooted in the common experience of wage labour.

This politics must start from the observation that the economic interests of wage earners under capitalism are highly differentiated and can point in different, even contradictory political directions. Class interests and economic interests are by no means identical. It is not a matter of appealing to ‘economic’ interests over ‘social’ or ‘cultural’ interests (misleadingly termed ‘identity’ politics). Rather, it is a matter of developing a materialist politics that is at once specific and general, and which addresses workers’ lives in the experientially accessible realm of market relations, and their potential in the experientially distant structure of ownership."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/first-principles

#Politics #Left #LeftWing #Capitalism #ClassWarfare #PoliticalEconomy #WageSlavery #IdentityPolitics

"This might at least help to pose the problem, which is not so much that workers as a whole are turning to the right as that the class is fundamentally fractured by the material interests deriving from the market position of its component parts as Weber noted long ago. Framed in this way, the necessary strategy would seem to be not to accommodate the rightward drift to little avail, but to find a basis on which to suture that divide, one that speaks both to highly specific, culturally inflected market interests as well as class-wide interests rooted in the common experience of wage labour.

This politics must start from the observation that the economic interests of wage earners under capitalism are highly differentiated and can point in different, even contradictory political directions. Class interests and economic interests are by no means identical. It is not a matter of appealing to ‘economic’ interests over ‘social’ or ‘cultural’ interests (misleadingly termed ‘identity’ politics). Rather, it is a matter of developing a materialist politics that is at once specific and general, and which addresses workers’ lives in the experientially accessible realm of market relations, and their potential in the experientially distant structure of ownership."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/first-principles

#Politics #Left #LeftWing #Capitalism #ClassWarfare #PoliticalEconomy #WageSlavery #IdentityPolitics

Coitadinhos desses investidores e accionistas "pobrezinhos" vulgo capitalistas...

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Pity those "poor" investors and shareholders AKA capitalists...

"Gross domestic product measures all the value added in the economy. For example, the value added by a manufacturer is its sales minus inputs such as parts and raw materials. That value is then distributed either to labor as wages and benefits, or to capital as profits and interest. Some value added is also allocated to depreciation, the cost of replacing assets as they wear out or become obsolete.

The shift to capital from labor has actually been under way for more than 40 years. Labor received 58% of the total proceeds of economic output, as measured by gross domestic income (conceptually similar to GDP), in 1980. By the third quarter of last year that had plummeted to 51.4%. Profits’ share, meanwhile, rose from 7% to 11.7%.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the demise of unions and the spread of outsourcing sapped workers’ bargaining power. The nature of capital also changed: Businesses spent less on long-lived buildings and factories and more on computer equipment, software and intellectual property that must be replaced every few years.

And then there is automation. Its impact showed up first in manufacturing as machines, robots and computers took the place of workers. In 1980, 66% of value added in factories went to labor as wages and benefits, said Pascual Restrepo, a Yale University economist. By the 2000s, that was down to 45%.

This was great for manufacturing productivity and consumers who got cheaper products. But it meant that workers who might have landed good-paying factory jobs took lower-paid work elsewhere. This can explain about half the drop in labor’s share of output between 1987 and 2016, according to a study by Restrepo and Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f

#Capitalism #USA #Labor #ClassWarfare #Inequality #WageSlavery #Capital

Coitadinhos desses investidores e accionistas "pobrezinhos" vulgo capitalistas...

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Pity those "poor" investors and shareholders AKA capitalists...

"Gross domestic product measures all the value added in the economy. For example, the value added by a manufacturer is its sales minus inputs such as parts and raw materials. That value is then distributed either to labor as wages and benefits, or to capital as profits and interest. Some value added is also allocated to depreciation, the cost of replacing assets as they wear out or become obsolete.

The shift to capital from labor has actually been under way for more than 40 years. Labor received 58% of the total proceeds of economic output, as measured by gross domestic income (conceptually similar to GDP), in 1980. By the third quarter of last year that had plummeted to 51.4%. Profits’ share, meanwhile, rose from 7% to 11.7%.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the demise of unions and the spread of outsourcing sapped workers’ bargaining power. The nature of capital also changed: Businesses spent less on long-lived buildings and factories and more on computer equipment, software and intellectual property that must be replaced every few years.

And then there is automation. Its impact showed up first in manufacturing as machines, robots and computers took the place of workers. In 1980, 66% of value added in factories went to labor as wages and benefits, said Pascual Restrepo, a Yale University economist. By the 2000s, that was down to 45%.

This was great for manufacturing productivity and consumers who got cheaper products. But it meant that workers who might have landed good-paying factory jobs took lower-paid work elsewhere. This can explain about half the drop in labor’s share of output between 1987 and 2016, according to a study by Restrepo and Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f

#Capitalism #USA #Labor #ClassWarfare #Inequality #WageSlavery #Capital

Coitadinhos desses investidores e accionistas "pobrezinhos" vulgo capitalistas...

----

Pity those "poor" investors and shareholders AKA capitalists...

"Gross domestic product measures all the value added in the economy. For example, the value added by a manufacturer is its sales minus inputs such as parts and raw materials. That value is then distributed either to labor as wages and benefits, or to capital as profits and interest. Some value added is also allocated to depreciation, the cost of replacing assets as they wear out or become obsolete.

The shift to capital from labor has actually been under way for more than 40 years. Labor received 58% of the total proceeds of economic output, as measured by gross domestic income (conceptually similar to GDP), in 1980. By the third quarter of last year that had plummeted to 51.4%. Profits’ share, meanwhile, rose from 7% to 11.7%.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the demise of unions and the spread of outsourcing sapped workers’ bargaining power. The nature of capital also changed: Businesses spent less on long-lived buildings and factories and more on computer equipment, software and intellectual property that must be replaced every few years.

And then there is automation. Its impact showed up first in manufacturing as machines, robots and computers took the place of workers. In 1980, 66% of value added in factories went to labor as wages and benefits, said Pascual Restrepo, a Yale University economist. By the 2000s, that was down to 45%.

This was great for manufacturing productivity and consumers who got cheaper products. But it meant that workers who might have landed good-paying factory jobs took lower-paid work elsewhere. This can explain about half the drop in labor’s share of output between 1987 and 2016, according to a study by Restrepo and Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f

#Capitalism #USA #Labor #ClassWarfare #Inequality #WageSlavery #Capital

The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories.

Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

#quote #quotes #usa #america #wageslave #wageslavery #slave #slaves #slavery #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression

"Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery-is-legal-in-minnesota-these-groups-are-working-to-change-that/

#USA #Minnesota #Minneapolis #SlaveLabor #PrisonLabor #WageSlavery

"Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery-is-legal-in-minnesota-these-groups-are-working-to-change-that/

#USA #Minnesota #Minneapolis #SlaveLabor #PrisonLabor #WageSlavery

"Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery-is-legal-in-minnesota-these-groups-are-working-to-change-that/

#USA #Minnesota #Minneapolis #SlaveLabor #PrisonLabor #WageSlavery

"Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery-is-legal-in-minnesota-these-groups-are-working-to-change-that/

#USA #Minnesota #Minneapolis #SlaveLabor #PrisonLabor #WageSlavery

"Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/slavery-is-legal-in-minnesota-these-groups-are-working-to-change-that/

#USA #Minnesota #Minneapolis #SlaveLabor #PrisonLabor #WageSlavery

Some of these #news headlines are absolute rubbish and feeds peoples minds absolute bullshit #propaganda. Don't believe every headline you read as some are very misleading about the #history of some countries specifically the USA...

#classwar #oppression #repression #fascism #statism #colonialism #imperialism #racism #capitalism #humanrights #animalrights #slavery #wageslave #wageslavery #eattherich

If #batman was a real #billionaires ( by DORKLY). #fun #funny #humour
#media #water #gig #gigworkers
#gigeconomy #sarcasm #irony
#surveillance_capitalism
#WageSlavery #techbros
#corporations #bigmedia

Hype for the Future 68A: Is Work a Symptom of Capitalism?

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68a-is-work-a-symptom-of-capitalism/

Hype for the Future 68A: Is Work a Symptom of Capitalism?

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68a-is-work-a-symptom-of-capitalism/

Hype for the Future 68A: Is Work a Symptom of Capitalism?

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68a-is-work-a-symptom-of-capitalism/

Hype for the Future 68A: Is Work a Symptom of Capitalism?

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68a-is-work-a-symptom-of-capitalism/

You don’t work a job, you rent your life.
#TechnoFeudalism #WageSlavery
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a9vboN_D6js&si=E-Mqzpmri5Lm66d8

#humanrights #slavery #wageslave #wageslavery #work #employment #classwar

"Zheng approaches each person individually, letting their memories and private cosmologies make themselves known.
Zheng can do this because she has lived this life. For more than a decade, she was based in an “urban village” outside Guangzhou – one of many such dense enclaves where migrant workers negotiate despair. She worked factory jobs, sleeping in those same dormitories. Between 2006 and 2015, she interviewed people in alleyways, restaurants and rented rooms, assembling a kind of oral history of the great migration to Guangdong. The resulting manuscript, Woman Worker, edged close to citizen journalism – a perilous vocation in contemporary China. Much of the text was considered too sensitive domestically, and Zheng has refused to accept the extensive redactions that some would-be publishers have demanded. So the book has never been published.

These narratives offer a window into Zheng’s life and work. The experiences they chronicle are often harsh – stories of exploitation and violence in the shadows of China’s industrial rise. But Zheng never frames her subjects solely through suffering. She captures flashes of solidarity, humour and stubbornness. Her sensitivity is humanising, holding both the structural and the intimate in view: the vast demographic movement of internal migration, and the individual lives that give it moral weight. She is a participant and an observer, a sympathetic advocate – but not an activist."

https://www.equator.org/articles/the-makers-of-modern-china

#China #Capitalism #WageSlavery #MigrantWorkers #Manufacturing #PoliticalEconomy

There Is Power in a Union
(Melody - "There Is Power in the Blood")
#JoeHill (1913)

Would you have freedom from #wageslavery,
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free,
Then come! Do your share, lend a hand.

Chorus:
There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingfolk,
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land-
One Industrial Union Grand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_Power_in_a_Union

#iww #singalong

There Is Power in a Union
(Melody - "There Is Power in the Blood")
#JoeHill (1913)

Would you have freedom from #wageslavery,
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free,
Then come! Do your share, lend a hand.

Chorus:
There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingfolk,
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land-
One Industrial Union Grand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_Power_in_a_Union

#iww #singalong

There Is Power in a Union
(Melody - "There Is Power in the Blood")
#JoeHill (1913)

Would you have freedom from #wageslavery,
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free,
Then come! Do your share, lend a hand.

Chorus:
There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingfolk,
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land-
One Industrial Union Grand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_Power_in_a_Union

#iww #singalong

"Adorno is usually caricatured as some ivory tower mandarin ruminating on abstruse aesthetic questions, so why would a group of angry communist workers recommend reading him? Because Adorno undertook a critique of capitalist society without “affirmative traits,” that refuses to make its peace with the wrong world and become “a piece of politics” and “the prey of power.” Adorno’s thought is far from “solipsistic and reality-distant,” as it is often portrayed, but rather is rooted in an understanding of Marx’s critique of political economy that is superior in many ways to that of his contemporaries.

While so many other Marxists thought there was something ‘progressive’ or even ‘socialist’ about state-organized wage labor, it’s Adorno who recognizes that “exchange is still the key to society” — that the sale of labor-power, that “objective abstraction” in which we exchange “the same for the same and simultaneously the same for the not-same” conceals and reproduces “the entirety of class relations.” “The total movement of society” is “antagonistic from the outset,” and “society remains class struggle” — and for him, this is a wholly negative category, just as it is for workers. Being a productive laborer is not a piece of luck, but a curse, and we appreciate Adorno because he’ll admit what we know from experience."

https://isr.press/Adorno_on_Society/index.html

#Capitalism #Marxism #CriticalTheory #WageSlavery #LaborPower #PoliticalEconomy

“#WageSlavery is a peculiar kind of suffering.
It’s normalized. Institutionalized.
A badge of honor to be miserable, as long as you’re productive.”

The Brutal Truth About #Work: Why I Refuse to Die a WageSlave
https://medium.com/@tom.scryleus/the-brutal-truth-about-work-why-i-refuse-to-die-a-wage-slave-b5ad30f347a9

What #work does to your mind
#WageSlavery #Obedience #corporatism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rpSLu2xgcnA&si=JIQfUefSWXpoMKVw

#ausgov #politas #classwar #slavery #wageslavery #wageslave #slave #slaves #fact #facts #humanrights #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich

What do you mean you can’t find a #job? Have you looked on #Indeed? What about #Linkedin? You should try #Upwork. How about #Rise? Have you tried #Jobera? Take a look on #Dribbble. You GOTTA be on #Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

#classwar #slavery #slave #slaves #gif #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich #wageslave #wageslavery #anticapitalism

What do you mean you can’t find a #job? Have you looked on #Indeed? What about #Linkedin? You should try #Upwork. How about #Rise? Have you tried #Jobera? Take a look on #Dribbble. You GOTTA be on #Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

#classwar #slavery #slave #slaves #gif #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich #wageslave #wageslavery #anticapitalism

What do you mean you can’t find a #job? Have you looked on #Indeed? What about #Linkedin? You should try #Upwork. How about #Rise? Have you tried #Jobera? Take a look on #Dribbble. You GOTTA be on #Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

#classwar #slavery #slave #slaves #gif #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich #wageslave #wageslavery #anticapitalism

CLASS WARFARE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION:

"The proposed rollback of the EU’s corporate accountability rules will significantly weaken their ability to address labour violations within the EU, experts and labour union representatives have told EUobserver.

Aída Ponce del Castillo, senior researcher at the research centre the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), told EUobserver that workers in labour-intensive industries and those at the bottom of subcontracting supply chains will be most impacted.

Workers’ representatives said that impacts on workers in the EU’s garment, agricultural, transport, and industrial sectors will be especially significant.

They argued that the rollback could mean a failure to address abuses including excessive working hours, forced labour, dangerous working conditions, and poverty wages.

While the proposed omnibus bills by the European Council, Commission, and Parliament differ, each proposal contains rollbacks to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)."

https://euobserver.com/EU%20Political/arb5f11cbf

#EU #CorporateAccountability #ClassWarfare #WageSlavery #Capitalism

👉 "When capitalism first showed up it delivered plenty of new things which people had a need and a desire for that weren’t available under previous systems like feudalism. The greatly increased material abundance and explosions of scientific and technological innovation ushered in with the dawn of capitalism caused human quality of life to improve by leaps and bounds.

But now we’re at a point where that just isn’t happening anymore. Things have stagnated, and we’re starting to backslide. People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

We are being driven into dystopia and annihilation by systems of our own making. We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things. Literally every other species is smarter than us. Amoebas are having a better time of it.

This will change when humanity replaces capitalism with something better, in the same way we replaced feudalism with the superior system of capitalism. I don’t know what that system is going to look like, but it’s going to have to involve a move from a model that is driven by competition to one that is driven by collaboration." 👈

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism-is-shoving-ai-down-our

#Capitalism #Feudalism #Alienation #WageSlavery #Collaboration