@upon_the_shore@MikeDunnAuthor Now imagining Iceland’s economy cratering in deep winter because there’s only four hours of proper daylight. (But then total burnout as people work 24/7 throughout June.)
However, child labor (like slave labor) was never truly illegal in the U.S. The first anti-child-labor laws in the U.S. still allowed for child labor on farms, as well as child labor outside of school hours.
@MikeDunnAuthor And also a “master’s level professionals who want to be reviled on social media, doxxed, and accused of abusing children for simply doing the job they are trained to do” shortage
Actually, the pandemic has made the tough, underpaid job much tougher, in numerous ways. With virtually no school districts do any kind of mitigation anymore, we have lots of teachers and staff out sick with covid and a shortage of subs. Consequently, admin has been calling on teachers to cover their colleagues classes during their prep periods. Sure, we get paid, but not at an overtime rate. And it makes a long day and excessive workload much more excessive.
Additionally, they keep asking us to do more, without any increase in pay or time off, to solves a host of worsening societal problems, including a lot of covid-related problems. For example, with more kids out sick, for longer periods of time, we are expected to provide more alternative additional assignments and lessons so those kids don't fall even farther behind. And kids' social and academic maturity has declined significantly in the past 2 years. Some attribute this to the 1-1.5 years those kids spent doing remote learning.
On top of this, teachers are being blamed for kids' declining mental health, as if the lockdowns were our fault, and as if the lockdowns are the cause. But evidence shows that teen suicides declined significantly when the lockdowns began (probably due to the end of on-school bullying, homophobia, classism, etc). But a shitload of other problems having nothing to do with school or lockdowns that are likely causes of their declining mental health have worsened: climate crisis, economic desperation, threat of world war or nuclear war, fascism, etc. And teachers in a lot of districts are being saddled with the responsibility of "fixing" these distressed kids.
@MikeDunnAuthor@Radical_EgoCom The sheer number of 50s and 60s shows that just took it for granted that we’d only work a handful of hours a week in the 21st century thanks to technological advances… and instead we got an oligarchy of billionaires. 🫤
@gregly@MikeDunnAuthor@Radical_EgoCom Yes, I remember clearly, the expectation was that as work became automated, people would have more leisure time, ie the benefits would be shared among all by having shorter working hours. Still makes sense to me.
@haschrebellen@MikeDunnAuthor Broken? No. Intentionally designed to keep all the wealth in the hands of capitalist and to keep the working class in a perpetual state of poverty? Yes.
"Die Theorie des Exodus schlägt vor, dass der wirksamste Weg, sich dem Kapitalismus und dem liberalen Staat zu widersetzen, nicht in der direkten Konfrontation besteht, sondern in dem, was Paolo Virno "engagierten Rückzug" genannt hat, d.h. in der massenhaften Abkehr derjenigen, die neue Formen der Gemeinschaft schaffen wollen.
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdrawal,”mass defection by those wishing to create new forms of community.
Man braucht nur einen Blick in die Geschichte zu werfen, um zu bestätigen, dass die meisten erfolgreichen Formen des Volkswiderstands genau diese Form angenommen haben. Sie bestanden nicht darin, die Macht frontal herauszufordern (das führt in der Regel dazu, dass man abgeschlachtet wird, oder wenn nicht, dass man sich in eine - oft noch hässlichere - Variante der Sache verwandelt, die man zuerst herausgefordert hat), sondern aus der einen oder anderen Strategie des Entgleitens aus ihrem Griff, aus Flucht, Desertion, der Gründung neuer Gemeinschaften."
One need only glance at the historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular resistance have taken precisely this form. They have not involved challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if not, turning into some—often even uglier—variant of the very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities.”
It always reminds me that in the 70s, Seattle had tons of SRO (single room occupancy) units downtown where thousands of people lived. Many elderly folks lived there and these old hotels and apartments were torn down or otherwise gentrified into the 80s, dumping people onto the streets, nursing homes, and other alternatives.
People still need an alternatives like SROs, but they are gone forever.
@MikeDunnAuthor Not to mention how brutal that is for people like me who have to shop without cars: all benches removed for miles, even from bus stops, so I have nowhere to rest or set my groceries while having chest pain as I often do in extreme heat. If I sit on the ground, I can't get up without help (and it's a misdemeanor too).