We’re watching a slow motion collapse
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Ok but what's the alternative? When America was great (where we're trying to go back to again), there was still at least one person per household grinding away for 40+ hours a week to provide. People worked at the same place for many years, instead of job hopping, people still only had one vacation a year, maybe that and a big Christmas too.
Do people really think there was a better work/life balance in years past than now? Or have we just romanticized the past because it was a simpler time? I mean, are we inadvertently asking for UBI here? Is working 4 10s really better for one extra day, when you maybe get home after dark?
When my wife's relatives used to visit from Italy they would be off for 4 weeks (one month) for their vacation from working. I used to think that was interesting. Where most Americans usually take one to 2 weeks. I never asked them how long their workday was, but I was thinking it was 8 or 9 hours daily. Truthfully I don't know.
I've always worked and supported myself and my daughter, never got child support got food stamps a couple times when I lost a job, but never stayed on it for more than a couple months. Now she's grown and we share a house and the bills, we both work hard and share the responsibilities of taking care of my granddaughter, we also make sure she spends time with her dad who lives an hour away. We both have good credit and I'm financially stable, but not enough to retired. Grocery prices keep going up and up, so much so that for us it pays to buy gas to drive an hour out of town to go to the nearest Walmart instead of shopping locally, and prices have even increased there. We can tough it out, I've cut back on extra things, but when are we going to start seeing prices lower. Gas here has gone down by about 50cents a gallon but they still hover around three dollars.
Yeah inflation may have stopped increasing but prices haven't been decreasing. I'm not dooming or anything just stating the reality of it all. We are holding on for things to trickle down and get better, but it's rough sometimes.
UBI is not the answer, reduced work hours are. Essentially, slowing down… technology was supposed to make our lives easier but all it did was make us have to match its speed. Now people are doing 4x the work they used to for the same pay. All because of greed, people wanting to profit as much as they can as fast as they can. Everyone has nervous system dysregulation, everyone is overstimulated, the world is WAY too fast in America. We don’t need Amazon prime. We don’t need to rush everywhere and go fast and produce at the speed we are. Work weeks should be 30 hours or less, to start with. There’s so many more areas to tackle the issue before something like UBI but I’m guessing you know that that’s “their” plan for us; make us “anti-capitalist” so that we will ASK for their pre-approved and programmed “solution” 🤮
Reduced work hours for the same or more pay? Sounds like what lefties want.