Was visiting a older gentleman in my family whom I respect. He lives in a very beautiful area and his partner is just the nicest. He’s retired and spends his time fishing.
I was complimenting him and said. ‘You really are a lucky guy.’
he said ‘OH. I hate it when people say that. This was a plan and I worked hard’.
He then told me about how he worked for the same school district for 30 years! And got a pension and spent wisely.
Damn. 30 whole years.
You can’t make plans without a stable environment. This man’s environment was so stable that his plan of “work as a teacher for 30 years” was able to play out successfully. Do you know how few people can even guarantee that their field will exist in 30 years, let alone their specific employer?
Maybe have less respect for him and call him out on his bullshit. In the nicest way possible of course.
He’ll either see reason or be a liberal scratched, either way you’ll learn something valuable from him.
The ruling class is such a hivemind that even though it’s essentially scientifically proven that you get better work from well-paid, well-rested, happy workers they’ll never allow it to happen. I’m convinced that when all the huge corporations run the numbers on how much to pay people, they completely ignore things like:
- experienced workers make less mistakes and are therefore more productive
- a constant revolving door keeps wages down but constantly training new people is a huge waste of time and money
- remote work will save the company a ton of money (once the lease is up) and people do better work in place where they’re comfortable
None of this matters if they have to give up a modicum of power. So many companies are stripped to the bone by sociopaths and then crumble and fail in the name of doing harm to workers but this also harms the future prospects of the executive class as more and more of these industries are consolidated. There has to be some executive board that sees the writing on the wall. If every company fails and is bought out/liquidated or merges, there won’t be many positions for these ghouls left. I get that most of them are barely able to breathe without being reminded to by their secretary but there have to be a few that understand they will be thrown to the wolves at a certain point once all the free money dries up.
I think mistakes are forced by the falling rate of profit. These irrational actions are to me a great indication of the way that the capitalist class has to undermine itself to chase the rate of profit. It introduces ways that the class undermines itself even worse due to haste
Step 1: be born in the 1950s
My mother told my kids that they should stay at their job for at least a year to show future employers that they’re dependable.
I told them to disregard this advice. Disregard with extreme prejudice.
“Dependable” to an employer means just as expendable as the rest but willing to put up with extra bullshit for zero additional compensation
