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  1. There is something quite disorientating about seeing a job advertisement for Father Christmas…in June…on a zero hours contract…which pays in one hour possibly close to what his employers charge per individual child visit.

    #Christmas
    #Santa
    #Exploitation
    #ZeroHourContracts

  2. Rishi gets sounds out the public on the struggle of living on a state pension in 2023:

    Pensioner: I really don't have enough money to buy food and pay my bills.

    Rishi: No problem! We've built a partnership with Deliveroo and Uber Eats that we're really stoked about. You can start tomorrow on a zero hour contract at minimum wage *. Doesn't that sound fantastic?

    * Which we'll deduct from your state pension.

    #zerohourcontracts #RishiSunak #Tories #RishiSnake #deliveroo #ubereats

  3. @trwnh I agree that there's no *pro*-capitalist left. There's a libertarian left that is pro-*market* but anti-capitalist (#C4SS etc). There's a pragmatic social democratic left who accept capitalism (like Hillary) as the "lesser of 2 evils". There are another bunch of left liberals who prefer to avoid arguing about abstractions like "capitalism" and focus on bread-and-butter labour and green like #ZeroHourContracts or #MassExtinction (1/2) ...
    @PaladinQuinn