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An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York #restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
A reasonable rule of thumb in UK #politcs is that if the Tax Payers Alliance doesn't like something, then it would likely benefit society;
to hear that they are against the four day #working week, leads me to think that the shadowy (corporate?) funders of the TPA are unhappy that #workers might be able to spend a little more time thinking about the inequities of the current system & a little less time being ground down by the world of #work.
Would you like to be friends? Been updating one of my board game designs with some simplification and refreshing the artwork. This one is Heian Kyo, set it the proposed capital of the Heian period in Japan. It's a game about making friends and retiring in comfort.
They realized the #pinkwashing wasn’t #working and instantly shifted gears into literally dressing and acting as hateful gay #stereotypes to make a #video basically just saying #lgbtqia+ #people are terrorist loving antisemites and posting it to the official #israel account. that was so fast
My fiance is still at #work. I thought I'd be diligent and cut some #firewood with a wood splitter. Oh that was #hardwork! The wood kept getting stuck in the cutter blade (branches made cutting difficult)! I had hit the wood with the poll of an ax to get it loose. I had to change all my clothes after 45 minutes because I was so sweaty. #working#suomimastodon#finland#countrylife#superwoman#workout
does #anyone else hate that #work takes up like 90% of your #life and you literally are always #working and have to form plans and important things and even seeing friends or eating meals around work. it's always just work. im spending my life just being At Work. i don't have time for hobbies or for seeing friends bc it’s always Work. like two days off a week isn't even enough because my days off aren't consecutive so i just spend those days exhausted or doing errands or house chores. there is not enough Time. all the time goes to Work. WHY IS LIFE THIS WAY. #humans were not meant for this
nothing makes me more insane than the phrase "selling your body" btw. like was i not also #selling my #body at every other #job i've had where i had to be on my feet all day, lifting boxes, #working in a warehouse, etc. why is it that sex #work is uniquely labeled as "selling your body" while every other job is sorted into another category, no matter how much that job might have a physical impact on your body. lmao.
I wish you all an excellent start to a new week. Mine is at this moment fucked. :) Joint pain from hell. I am sneezing and coughing. My kids had it last week. You could have set the timer.
"radio call-in show was doing a thing about #renters and #landlords in my province and ofc it was mostly landlords calling in cuz they have more free time. but the renters that called in were like. one was a lady in her 60s saying she has no retirement fund and her and her husband will be #working into their 70s and that #rent just goes up and there's nothing they can do about it on the verge of tears. and ppl calling in and saying they've been renovicted they've been #homeless and couch surfing and sleeping in their cars and not sure where they're gonna sleep or how they're gonna afford food and how all the universities in the city have food banks for the students now when they didn't before. and the landlords calling in were talking about stuff like. equity. idk just the tonal whiplash of a woman being on the verge of tears with nowhere to go and working minimum #wage fulltime and it doesn't even cover rent then the next lady is stressed about her. equities. and how they only wanna do short term rentals for students. one landlord compared rent going up to a store that sold shirts raising their prices, as if that's in anyway comparable, and basically said she's a business not a social resource. if you don't want to be a social resource mayhaps do not occupy a basic #social need such as shelter. host did not challenge that statement. so soulless and genuinely disturbing to me. imagine being able to live like that. dear god. over $2000 for a one bedroom utilities not included and landlords getting mad when more than one person is stuffed into their stupid expensive 1 bedroom apartment as if anyone is happy about this situation. drove me crazy the way it was presented like Both Sides Have a Point as if Equities are just as important as Sleeping in your Car. i do feel this sense of inertia the last few years of okay something's gotta give now something's gotta give we're gonna hit the brick wall any second now but it just keeps going on like this....."
""if you don't want to be a social resource mayhaps do not #occupy a basic social need" is a valid fucking point. Take note, landlords."
У продовження фідбеку про фільм Обами "Working", де той досліджує питання середнього класу в Штатах.
До речі, створення цих документалок – це один з основних джерел доходу для Обами, так само як і написання книжок від його імені.
У третій серії камера показує помешкання 60-річного чорношкірого лобіста з Міссісіпі – він був сенатором два терміни й після завершення термінів вирішив кілька років представляти інтереси різних груп