“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

https://archive.is/wGp2F

So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to “new model” the old model.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    They’ll enslave every last person on the planet if you let them. You have to fight back, or that’s your future. That’s everyone’s future.

  • Gowron_Howard@lemm.eeEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    That’s rich coming from a group of people who haven’t collectively worked a single day in their lives.

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
    32·
    2 months ago

    Yeah you and your kids and their kids… All slaving away in poor conditions, at the same time.

    No retirement for the old. Child labor. Shitty conditions with zero worker protections. Low pay to keep you in poverty. All while the rich sit on their lazy fat asses like the parasites they are…

    • Ænima@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      That shit died, or suffered a major blow under Reagan. It’s only been downhill since. I’m old enough to remember the yearly increases to the federal minimum wage before they stopped all that at like $7.25. I think my first job paid $6.40. Every time this dude is on TV he’s grinning like some doofus or laughing too hard from the lukewarm farts leaking from trump’s mouth.

  • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
    222·
    2 months ago

    ha. see, the thing is… no. make me. i got a bullet for every single fucking one of you that tries to fuck my genuinely good life up. i figured out how to escape this shit life and i’m never going back. i ain’t got no kids so i don’t have to worry about any of this. yall have all fucked this world up beyond recognition and i will fucking kill you if you try to drag me down into your bullshit.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      12·
      2 months ago

      That’s the thing, they don’t care if you work there, they won’t make you, you’ll just starve to death in the street or die from lack of medical care or some previously preventable problem. You likely would never be forced to work but not working will be essentially choosing slow suicide

      • GroundedGator@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Strip me off my decent life and try to make me work labor. I will. But my incompetence will be the greatest incompetence. My wages will do nothing but pay for my mistakes and I will just keep making them.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Since the New Deal the goal of the capitalist class has been a slow crawl back to slavery. Couldnt do it too fast. Had to take it slow.

    No taxes for the rich and businesses. No rights for workers. And eventually No pay or choice for them either.

    That beyond all the other myriad failures of this country is why I hate it so much and why I long to see it fall.

    And it’s all been fully Bipartisan. Republicans advance the goals of oligarchy by leaps. Democrats are the vanguard that protects the rich and the corrupt. They stop all of us from making things better. Social and cultural issues are ephemeral at best. Ultimately unimportant to the oligarchy beyond their utility as a tool of control and coercion. There is no morality involved. There is just greed and corruption.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I think in a other timeline I’d be very happy working in a factory for my career. Building something or maintaining the systems. Putting in a hard days work and going home feeling proud I did a good job.

    Supporting my 2 kids, stay at home wife and owning my own home with only my income.
    My kids needs were all met. All utilities paid up, school supplies and toys, fridge always fully stocked.
    My job was secure. 20+ years at the company with a competative salary. My job is secure and safe with my union protecting me. Might retire in 30 or so years with a solid pension and a cool 50 at the factory.
    No need to get a job after I retire. Just enjoy my time with my new grandkids my children are happy to have in a strong economy.

    But. We’re not in the fucking twilight zone.
    The American Dream was taken from the masses and they want us “back on the line” for pennies on the dollar in profits.

    “I make a penny while the boss makes a dime. That’s why I sit on company time.”

    No. We now make a penny while the CEOs make thousands and were left hungry, homeless and sick.

    Get the fuck out of here with that shit.