There are studies recently released that show that the people who are buying houses 20 years ago are the same people buying houses today. It is a zero-sum game because nobody else is able to buy a house, especially not if they’re younger.

Heres the repo in case you want other internet things to look at

https://github.com/Gankra/cargo-mommy

That presupposes that it’s either 110% or 10% with no in between. You can do the bare minimum to not create headaches for your co-workers, while still not going above and beyond.

Exactly what I meant but I was unable to put it into words. You shouldn’t abandon your co-workers, you should hold up your end of responsibility to your work and be accountable in that way but that you should not go above the letter of your job description.

I disagree.

If you will allow a company to abuse you and then push others to accept the same abuse “in an effort to keep things running” you are keeping your comrades in chains

I think the problem here is that you think he expects people to cover for him. Don’t cover for him and let him fail

It’s not an abusive of Labor to check out specially if your bosses do nothing to punish it. Either become like Chad or get burnt out.

Learn to let the business fail around you or lose your entire self to the business trying to upkeep when the even the owners can’t be bothered.

This attitude is how people end up burnt out and how corporations continue to get away with things like wage theft.

It is not solidarity to allow the corporation to abuse you just because they abuse your coworkers.

Everybody needs a job to survive

You’re not special just because you have this particular job. Either get with the program like Chad has or you’ll end up burnt out, in therapy, unable to comprehend why you hate your life, being vengeful about those who understand that the corporation does not care about you and will not treat you with any sort of respect and as long as you’re getting them profit they don’t care what you do either.

If Chad hits the metrics he’s supposed to despite him forgetting to do his job and corporate doesn’t care then you’re the fool for working past chads level.

What Chad does is recognize what his labor is actually worth and what the company is paying him. What you’re doing is allowing the corporation to take advantage of you and pull more of your labor for even less wage. You’re actually allowing the system to screw hard workers and pay workers less by capitulating your time in this way to corporations

This defense mechanism is also seen similarly in toxic relationships for those who don’t want to rock the boat. What you’re doing will ultimately capitulate to the toxic relationship and make things worse.

I think Chad’s got the right attitude

Yeah Karl Mark’s really very much described capitalism but if you’re not reading the other Marxist writers you’re doing yourself a disservice.

Lenin in particular is incredibly important to understanding modern day communism. Mao includes blueprints for the successful Revolution that he threw. Even if you don’t like Stalin or appreciate his actions in the USSR he wrote a ton on communist Theory and given that he led one of the most powerful countries at one point seems like it might be prudent to you know hear what he has to say.

And that’s not getting into people like Rosa Luxembourg. Oh Hoxha has a ton of writings which get up to the '90s. Michael Paranti has also added a lot.

From the economics point of view there’s people like Richard wolf who’s a marxian economist who brings a marxian element to Modern economic theory.

You’re incredibly naive if you don’t think people haven’t thought about how to fix the broken system that we’ve been living in for the better part of a couple hundred years now. It’s out there you just have to go find it and not fall for the United States or Western lines “on what doesn’t work”

I’m choosing to believe this is what happened.

I don’t care about reality anymore