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@Neverfadingwood just a heads-up, one of the Is in the image description got turned into a | (vertical bar character) 
@hazelnot Thank you.
@Neverfadingwood Anarchy is order.
@Neverfadingwood Also, “better” almost always means more evil. Want lots of money? Unless you have an extraordinary talent in sports or the performing arts, that means working for a predatory financial, tech, fossil fuel, or for-profit health”care” corporation. Want to do caring or restorative work? Good luck finding a studio apartment you can afford.
@stevem Isn't it though?
@stevem@venera.social @Neverfadingwood@lingo.lol Slavery, you're generally asset enough that your owners pay (bare minimum) to house you and keep you healthy enough to work, though.
"Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master." -- Albert Parsons (Haymarket martyr)
@Neverfadingwood @LevZadov Very true and very sad. I ran across a Reddit forum for Tim Hortons. The idea was to register a complaint... but then I realized this was a forum for employees.
They were discussing how they buy in bulk to get cheaper prices for groceries, and then share with other employees who do the same thing, buying different bulk groceries.
Some mention came up about using the food bank too. 
@stevem @Neverfadingwood Well, someone has to do the jobs (or equivalent ones) slaves did in earlier centuries.
And never forget, Europe did have local slaves too, we just usually called them differently, indentured, Leibeigene (“owned bodies”) and so on.
For centuries, in many countries, peasants were bound to the estate they were born on. “Peasant wars” is nothing else but a nicer word for “slave revolt”.
@Neverfadingwood It's always the people who decide how much you're paid who tell you it's your own fault you aren't paid enough.
@Neverfadingwood - I love this thinking. “Everybody should get a college degree” means our trash will have to be taken out by people with college degrees or we’re all gonna drown in our own shit.
@Neverfadingwood When do we start Universal Basic Income? Probably right after we implement Universal Health Care. lol
@Neverfadingwood the kind of people who say this generally don't feel obligated to make logical arguments
@Neverfadingwood
It's a common attitude.
In a past life, I worked in Australia's Commonwealth Employment Service. It was not uncommon for businesspeople to complain about the statutory remuneration (award wage).
My standard response was that the award was based on the value of the work. If his business could not pay full value, then it would be technically insolvent. If he would not pay full value, then he wanted to bludge on the society that produced the worker.
Put another way:
"If you don't think your job is worth a living wage, then why should anybody else think it's worth doing?"
#AusPol #LivingWage
@Neverfadingwood What you are saying is that you won’t pay any more than you absolutely must
because that would be wasting money and you can’t afford that.
If you think someone should be paid more then pay them more. Don’t push the moral obligation onto someone else.