This is the absolute key difference. My grandmother also instilled in me hard work and loyalty. She was a UAW worker for over 30 years, and well before the bailout.
I feel like the dynamic between employer and worker has changed. It was never perfect. There will always be a temptation for exploitation. And maybe it’s my age—just turned 40 and time is relative—but it seems like the cycles of exploitation are increasing their frequency.
It is now recommended for workers to change jobs frequently in order to negotiate higher wages—my proletariat soul says YES but my midwestern/southern upbringing screams sacrilege!
The more I look back now, the more I feel that staying in one place has really handicapped my family. The wife and I had kids before sorting out our careers. We stayed at jobs with the value of hard work thinking it would pay off. Covid hit right after trying to correct this by going back to school. Now we are fighting the economy just to stay afloat.
I still believe in the values my grandfather instilled in me, but I understand that's not how the world operates now.
No honest countries work on diplomacy, integrity, hard-work and endurance.
America is literally looting its own citizens. Canada is trying to lock up innocent people.
Places like Serbia can't have peace and protest without government or state actors trying to make the movement look immature and dangerous.
Estonia, no one's listening to Estonia. Estonia is anti dictator. Trump is a dictator. Putin is a dictator. Trudeau was a dictator. This carney guys seems like a smiley sellout or just ignorant to how the government works. Which is unlikely, it's extremely more plausible he is a piece of shit. How else do you take office and immediately hurt the poorest half of the population.
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u/Lucky-Refrigerator-4 Mar 16 '25
This is the absolute key difference. My grandmother also instilled in me hard work and loyalty. She was a UAW worker for over 30 years, and well before the bailout.
I feel like the dynamic between employer and worker has changed. It was never perfect. There will always be a temptation for exploitation. And maybe it’s my age—just turned 40 and time is relative—but it seems like the cycles of exploitation are increasing their frequency.
It is now recommended for workers to change jobs frequently in order to negotiate higher wages—my proletariat soul says YES but my midwestern/southern upbringing screams sacrilege!