• whereisk@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The reason why the job market sucks is that unions got defanged and international capital movement freed from the 80s onwards.

    That’s why life for working people took 3 steps backwards compared to our parents and grandparents who could buy a house, go on holidays and have a boat on a factory wage. While we are going to have trillionaires soon and the only thing that’s cheaper is the fuel of capitalism: telecoms and wages.

    The problem has never been another wage earner - the problem is pitting us against each other and us taking the bait.