This is what infuriates me about these reports and talking heads. Who cares how many jobs were added if wages remain low, or better paying roles are replaced by lower wages and no benefits, or workers are losing job security, or their stifled wages afford less?
When they say things like this they’re not talking to regular people. They’re reporting sales numbers to investors and CEOs.
Don’t forget those “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” voting against their own interests.
Incidentally, Marx identified this precise problem in Das Kapital
Wage growth surpassed inflation every month this year.
Not saying you’re wrong or I disagree with your sentiment.
For who?
Three letter titled people.
Across all wages combined? What if you just look at people who make <100k?
I’m pretty wrecked after my 1 full time job. I would rather turn to crime before I get 2 more jobs.
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25 or 6 to 4!
Join a Union. I’m in a plumbers union and after I finished my apprenticeship and got my journeyman’s license I’m pulling $46 an hour.
People underestimate the trades
I get the sense that is changing… People are worried that many jobs will soon be automated and see that the trades will be safe from that for quite some time.
Most people don’t have the manual dexterity or mechanical intuition to get into trades. Millwrighting, welding, plumbing and electrician-ing all require a person who is clever enough to understand and repair equipment that they have only just seen. Most people have a hard time applying a screen protector for a phone they have owned for months.
Domestic manufacturing is where Canada/USA should be aiming to create jobs. All skill levels are required and automated facilities still need humans. The positions are a lot more varied now, with most tasks being those that would require expensive vision systems or minor problem solving. Domestic manufacturing might help with some of the bull shit global supply chain issues as well.
Steal from the poor, give to the rich
The American dream.
American Reality*
It’s honestly hard to believe the job reports. Things sure don’t feel better
Knowing a certain number of jobs are filled tell us nothing about how people are actually doing.
Employment could be at 100% and it wouldn’t matter when the majority are making nothing.
Yup. “Hooray, Bob Cratchit has a job!”
I have even better news if you live in the USA. The unemployment rate increased so the rich people can finally hire for lower wage and increase their profit margins…I mean the economy can finally get a handle on inflation
Poor moron: “The stock market is doing great!” Me: “The stock market has nothing to do with YOU! Stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.”
How does it work with resting hours in the US? You also have a minimum for off-work time, no matter what work, right? For example in Austria it’s 8 hours every day + 48 hours per week for most jobs.
Yeah no we don’t do that here. That’s considered socialism and stifling the right to labor all you want in America.
We’ve also been in the process of abandoning the 40 hour work week that our ancestors fought and died for with things like frequent mandatory overtime and unpaid lunch.
I actually had no idea some countries got guaranteed resting hours. I’ve worked 12 days in a row once and I was even in a union then.
I think there actually are requirements (I might be wrong) but it’s just very often ignored.
I’ve at least had restrictions about how many days in a row I could work at every job I’ve had. That goes out the window though with multiple jobs
Lmao nope. In my state you cannot be scheduled more than 6 days in a row(for most jobs. Some jobs can go a full 7 out of 7) and employers are required to give one 24 hour rest period… but that’s per job, not cumulative. If you have two jobs, the only thing stopping you from being scheduled 6 days a week at both and working at least one job every single day is if your schedules overlap, in which case you have to choose which job you like more because you’ll probably be fired soon from the one you don’t go to.
This is literally not a thing, afaik.
LOL nope
Where I live, your employer cannot make you work than 9 hours a day or 40 hours a week without having to pay you overtime pay (at least 40 % more than ordinary hourly pay). If it happens regularly, the employer will get the Labour Inspection Authority on their ass.
Voluntary work is not allowed to exceed 13 hours a day, or an average of 48 hours a week within an eight week period.
Haha no, I’ve routinely gone weeks without a day off, post covid shutdowns it was several months of 7 days a week 10+ hour days “to help the business stay alive”. Currently my record for longest workday is 67 hours straight since we had a security incident I needed to stay and work on to limit damage, I’m not all upset about that one though, I’ll gladly do it again because fuck cyber criminals
Until the rampant greed gets under control globally this will never change. It’s always been there but shit is turned up to 11 the past few decades.
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