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The American workplace [1]
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Date: 2025-04-24
At will employment has turned our workplaces into plantations!
Minimum wage earners are the least of our working class. They don't earn enough to provide for themselves and often rely on food assistance and healthcare from the Government. This amounts to corporate welfare for employers like Walmart that can easily pay a living wage and provide healthcare benefits for their workers.
At another level are workers that have healthcare benefits and earn at least double the minimum wage. We often refer to them as the working poor that live from paycheck to paycheck. These workers can least afford to lose their jobs and are overworked and at times subject to all manner of abuse.
The highly skilled professional workers are also dealt a bad hand. Scientists deliver work suppressed when corporate masters don't like the results. A good example of this is when Exxon Mobil ignored the findings that fossil fuels were contributing to global warming to the detriment of the entire planet. Software engineers are compelled to prop up less skilled colleagues hired from other countries. They have to work harder at tasks they shouldn't need to do because their employer wants to avoid hiring professionals that can pull their own weight. Other engineers are often compelled to take shortcuts or use defective materials they know will produce inferior or even dangerous products. These people have worked long and hard to develop the expertise they possess, only to have their work disrespected and their professional integrity compromised.
Finally the middle management class of workers that are called upon to handle and deliver the "caca" that rolls down from above. It's very hard for these workers to find alternative employment, so their shackles are very secure. Do they ever agonize over the injustices they are often compelled to deliver or wonder if the golden handcuffs are worth the grief.
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