• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I keep reading articles like this. Between rent being too expensive, home prices going through the roof, food prices outpacing wage growth, car and home insurance going up just because it can, utilities getting more expensive, my question is when does it just become too much. The whole thing just screams corporate greed and I’m getting sick of it. I make 60% more than I did 20 years ago and I feel like I’m barely scraping by.

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      6 months ago

      It is just waiting for a tipping point to kick the whole powder keg off, basically. Like a dormant volcano as the pressure builds below the surface. At that point, people will seem irrational and random, just because there are so many vectors of fail taking place in parallel.

      Random example that comes to mind, was talking to a friend and they were mentioning their employer is going to start a weekend rotation for teams. One of the shifts has 3 people, so once every three weeks, one employee will be working 7 days a week. They previously had weekend staff to cover the weekend shift. The company’s solution wasn’t to hire more, redistribute, or one of the many other ways to solve the problem. Just, Lumberg from Office Space instead.

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        6 months ago

        Lumberg from Office Space

        Yeaaah, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in every day of the week from now on, mmkay? Thanks!

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      6 months ago

      Me saying fuck it and moving to Asia was one of the best decisions of my life. But the fact people aren’t willing to do it (but muh family! But muh language!) shows it’s not nearly bad enough

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          Korea, but if I could do it again I would probably consider China (because so many people speak Mandarin, it’s an amazing skill to have) and Vietnam (because it’s even cheaper, and software jobs are about as good) as well