Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?
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1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
You can’t buy people anymore but you can buy most of their their awake hours. It’s called a job.
jopepa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
metaStatic@kbin.social 10 months ago
this guy has figured out capitalism
jopepa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Keep it down what if they start organizing?
Quexotic@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I mean, it’s been done… npr.org/…/outsourced-employee-sends-own-job-to-ch…
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Wealthy people don’t buy things, they buy time - other people’s time.
jopepa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
On behalf of landfills and floating trash islands, they buy plenty of thing things, too.
beckerist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Where can I buy a ticket?
PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You misspelled “wage slavery”
tryptaminev@feddit.de 10 months ago
No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods…
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Depends on if you can’t live comfortably or not still lol.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I’d wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
yonkerstribune.com/…/slave-wages-what-are-slave-w…
weforum.org/…/household-income-distribution-wealt…