Work Reform

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

Everyone complaining about their tax dollars paying for these programs seem to have no problem with their tax dollars subsidizing these companies' payrolls.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 4 points 2 days ago

Or bombing kids, or being grifted away, or funding a gestapo, or starting another new war...

All that is fine, but don't you dare help a common person!!!

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 41 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Minimum wage in the "richest country in the world" needs to be $25/hr without tips. Or is "richest country" always been a lie?

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Yes

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[–] gankouskhan@piefed.zip 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It can't be a number. These types will just raise prices so $25 is the new $15. Instead the gap needs to be a percentage including bonuses, stocks, health insurance coverage, ...and any other form of compensation. This would mean even business owners or s corp splitters, loan takers against investments, business worth, etc are all taxed fairly and evenly. It would also mean they can't artificial lower their income for tax reasons or for keeping bottom wages low. Additionally cost of living should be factored in such that the median or average value of goods is evaluated by a non biased third party that changes the undisclosed goods for calculating the CoL just so corporations cannot game this.

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[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Also it should be a federal law that companies have to match inflation in pay raises.

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[–] gankouskhan@piefed.zip 14 points 4 days ago

Let's not call it a raise, but rather an adjustment. A raise would imply you got something of greater value than you had. Inflation by definition means the value of what you had is now lower than it was.

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[–] piconaut@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Sounds something like what is proposed in the book, Ministry for the Future, create a law that no person can be compensated more than ten times what the lowest paid employee in that same company is compensated.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Any employees qualifying for aid due to low wages while working at large companies like Walmart should disqualify the company from all tax incentives.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

It would not be legal in a society that is actually trying to have consistent laws. The US is not one of those.

At this point businesses don't have to adhere to any regulations so long as they bribe the officials that are supposed to enforce them.

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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Corporations seldomly produce wealth for people or a nation. In practice they're merely a means of organizing the labor of many into a system that allows the benefits and money to be funneled to a small few.

And lack of any real competition gives them no reason to improve the lives of any one other than themselves.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 child)

I once worked for Apple and the pay was bad. I was approached by a small national company to do basically the same role and their base offer was almost 30% more.

A lot of my former colleagues we're still friends and catch up. We've all moved on but it's like we all share a trauma bond. It's an evil place internally, but they get away with it because of all the resumes flooding their inbox.

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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That's the same issue as people who want to be game developers. There's so many gifted intelligent people that want to do it, that companies just treat them like shit, overwork them, pay them nothing, then fire nearly all of them right before or after the game launches.

I used to want to be a game programmer since I first played fallout on a Pentium 133. But I came to realize that it's a shitty industry to be involved in

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

In Britain they call their version of this shit "Working Poor".

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 child)

How on earth do they think these CEOs and Executives make their obscene salaries. It’s via wage theft and they’re all in on it, people are just to indoctrinated to speak out against it and do something about it, for fear of losing what crumbs of health insurance they are dealt with.

Big companies have people well and truly under boot in most countries.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

It is crazy how people can be against welfare programs because "the money has to come from somewhere" but in the same breath defend billionaires who's wealth also "has to come from somewhere".

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

More than that, money in welfare programs continues to circulate. Money going to the ultra-wealthy exits the economy.

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 13 points 4 days ago

Where do you thinks the money comes from for the executives mega yachts?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

According to our analysis of state-level data from September 2025, the employers who employed the most Medicaid enrollees or SNAP beneficiaries varied across the 11 states that provided data. However, 46 companies (about one-third of the total companies across all 11 states) were among the top 25 employers of Medicaid enrollees or SNAP beneficiaries in at least two states. Seventeen of these 46 companies were among the 50 largest Fortune 500 companies by number of employees.