Comment on Am I a real working person?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so fucking sick of this discussion.
If your income is in the form of dividends, stock selling, or collecting rent money, that doesn’t mean you’re a worker.
If you work as an employee for a company, and are also a landlord on the side, then yes you are a worker. But you are a worker because of the working for a company part, not the landlord part.
End of discussion.
Now let’s look at a paragraph from this dog shit article, breaking it up into points…
I know investment bankers and corporate lawyers who work far more hours and under much greater pressure than me.
And? Nobody ever said investment bankers or lawyers weren’t workers. They work for companies and are paid.
They have no inherited income, come from ordinary backgrounds and their wealth is entirely down to their salary.
Ok? What does this have to do with assessing whether someone is a worker or not?
But that salary is simply too large for them to count as working people.
When did the government or anybody ever say that anyone with a decent salary isn’t a worker?
In any case, I’ve watched several episodes of Industry, and they are patently the wrong type of working people. And what’s more, they are having way too much sex, although Starmer has not quantified how much coupling working people are allowed.
I don’t even know what to say about this. Are they unrelatedly complaining about sex in a TV programme, or do they genuinely think Labour’s view on who counts as a worker comes down to how often that person has sex and how many people they have sex with?
It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking paywall too.
I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.
Could you imagine being this out out about the guardian opinion pieces?
Right but they raised the very important point that the article is basically complaining about a bunch of people not being considered working when they are working and are considered working people.
They’re literally complaining about nothing
I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.
But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week ago
It is such a stupid discussion because there are many people that work in industries that are in high demand and thus get very high wages. But that’s the point, they get a wage, thus are a worker.
It’s the Tories that started trying to muddy the waters about this because they’re angry about something, although God knows what, because they appear to be raging against the made up version of the policy rather than the actual policy.