Gone since 1980 still relevant

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

When did this become a thing? I totally get if a company has extra work, and they ask if any employees would like to work extra hours but to make it mandatory.

Every company preaches work life balance, but it is just something that they say, or it is only for the higher ups in the company. Large employees like Amazon, especially around the holidays, demand that their full-time employees’ work 45 to 50 hours a week during peak times. So, if you have a schedule that is 4 ten-hour days a week during peak times your schedule is 5 ten-hour days and as an employee you have no say in it.

I talked to one of those workers earlier today and they said they have no option but to work or they will be let go. I can’t wrap my head around that policy, if an employee has children and they have arranged childcare for 40 hours a week and the company inform them that they have to work another day that doesn’t stop them from having to provide care for those kids. The incentive is time and a half for those extra hours but arranging care for children could potentially absorb all of that. I know couples with children that work opposing shifts in order to save money for childcare what happens in those situations. The company really doesn’t care because they will replace you before you can hang up the phone.

Everything has become a race to the bottom, rent is more expensive, but wages don’t increase to compensate, overtime is mandatory so now you can afford higher rent, but you are always at work. The promise of work/life balance in the United States is a false promise that workers are not entitled to. It is no wonder that Millennials are not having families, no time, no money, and increasing cost have made the American dream a relic of the past. The promise that technology would increase productivity and people would work less for money reward has only worked on one front, from 1979 to 2020, net productivity rose 61.8%, while the hourly pay of typical workers grew far slower increasing only 17.5% over four decades (after adjusting for inflation). The profits of productivity have only benefited the corporations and the workers have been relegated to indentured servitude.

Thanks for suffering through another rant. Feel free to agree, disagree, tell me I am making mountains out of mole hills.  Aways open for comments.  

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

This a repost from earlier this year but with the Trumpublicans anointing a new Speaker that has proclaimed himself the Avenger for the unborn, actually saying that abortion in the cause of many problems to include Social Security and Medicare because abortion killed laborers. Yes he really said that, all those poor fetuses could be cogs in the machine… if they actually survived since he also is apposed to the programs that would help those would be individuals.

The Right Wing Evangelical Republican Party has had overing turning Roe v Wade since the supreme court ruled on it in 1973 and allowed abortions to be legally performed up to the stage of fetus viability (22-24 weeks). This is the point where the fetus with extraordinary medical intervention has the possibility of surviving outside the womb. The radical right continued to proclaim that the Democrats what to allow abortion even after a live birth… that is completely insane because that is called infanticide which is already illegal. Democrats weren’t even pushing for anything beyond what the law had already stated but that wasn’t what the Republicans were telling their faithful minions.

Those that oppose abortion in any form are also those that are against funding community programs that would help support these potential children. They don’t care for food stamp programs, head starts, helping families with daycare expenses, none of that. Protect the fetus at all costs, screw the child.

Well, those people got their wet dream realized in 2022 when the packed Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old ruling leaving the decision up to the States. Now a woman has practically no autonomy over her own body in the eyes of the law. Many states are imposing very stringent rules, heartbeat laws that they claim there is a viable heartbeat at 6 weeks, the list is to long to articulate.

Mark Marin has an interesting solution for the Evangelical Right instead of abortion clinic being labeled as abortion clinic they should be call angel factories and they could have priest blessing and baptizing the unborn fetus before they walk in. How could the “Christians” be against that.

That isn’t really where I am going with this, the law prosecutes the women that get pregnant and never place the onus of that pregnancy where in belongs. No one seems to acknowledge that a penis has to be involved in a unwanted pregnancy. That is a fact there has never been an unwanted pregnancy that there wasn’t another party with a penis involved in. Sadly, that party isn’t the one being called names and having legal actions hurled at them. We need to control a woman’s body but there is never a mention of the other party involved in the pregnancy. Patriarchy has placed the responsibility solely on women’s shoulders they get to spread their seed indiscriminately without reprise but the woman that gets pregnant is called all sorts of degrading epithets.

So here is my solution and I guarantee that no one will like it and it will never happen. Its my control the bullets plan… kind of my gun problem plan too but that another rant. The plan is for every male child between the ages of 13-16 to have a vasectomy. The procedure is reversable. When that male has established the desire and appropriate maturity and a partner that wants children, he can have the procedure reversed. Get I am controlling the bullets… can’t plant the seeds if the dam is blocking the down stream distribution. This works for both team’s men can still screw around, and women don’t have to worry about being stuck with some bastards child.

 Obviously rape and unwanted contact would still be outlawed…

Finally, men would have some responsibility in the game… that is exactly why I know my plan will never work.  Any takers on my plan