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It's May 1st, Labor Day in many places.

A good day to remember that your employer is not your friend and your interests are almost certainly not aligned. They will drop you as soon as your cost exceeds the profit you generate for them.

Yes, even if you have a "cushy" job right now. That only means that your cost-profit ratio right now is in your favour but that can change very fast. It also serves capitalists to make you think you're different/better than other workers so you don't feel solidarity with them.

(and please don't tell me how *your* company is the exception, it probably isn't anyway)

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cringe is dead, yet i live

@esther it's not an exeption for sure, but it treats me and my girlfriend (who also work there) better than my previous jobs, so that's something.

They still steal my wages, because I gain only 20% of what the company that employs me gets for me.

publius

@esther

My grandfather was once told, "your employer doesn't pay you what you're worth!"

He responded "of course he doesn't, how else would he stay in business?"

He also became a rifle instructor in the US Army, after enlisting in 1939, because on the range one day another recruit asked if something about the M-1 Garand was a certain way, the instructor replied "naturally", and he objected "nothing natural about it, someone designed it that way".

A senior officer happened to be passing…

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