“Economic fatigue” nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.
Or legislative success in suppressing organized labor.
Union busting Biden. Fucking shame!
OMG. Can we stop circle jerking about something that didn’t happen? I’m just gonna paste my last comment about this because I don’t have the energy…
I’m no fan of Biden (though I did and will vote for him) but that’s not what happened. He did not bust the unions, the 12 unions still exist. He broke a strike, which is the intended purpose of the Railway Labor Act of 1926.
The law Biden put before congress to force a resolution to the three year negotiation deadlock would have guaranteed the workers 7 days of sick leave per year (they wanted 15). It passed the House but the Senate knocked it down to 1 day, with a 14% immediate pay increase and an additional 25% over the next five years.
Biden continued negotiate for the unions to get the sick days. They don’t all have them yet, but at this point 61% of the workers do have 4 short notice paid sick days with the option to trade three personal days for an additional 3 short notice sick days. Negotiations are still happening, the Biden administration is still part of them.
The Ohio derailment disaster was not a result of worker error (or lack of sick days) but lack of maintenance regulations, which was not something that was being negotiated at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute
Beau of the Fifth Column, Let’s Talk About Biden, the Rails and Sick days… Youtube link
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate think people get sick ONCE a year? Or are they too fucking greedy and think “my stocks might lose value if those companies have to pay workers when they’re not working! Unacceptable!!”
I have a pretty poor view of our fellow citizens, but to be “represented” by that kind of disgusting human? It’s laughable to consider them representing anything but wealth…
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate [with unlimited paid sick leave that they use a lot because they are elderly and infirm] think people get sick ONCE a year?
Why would they curtail it when the voters show their support for it every two years without fail?
Hey I don’t support it! I just voted for Democrats to prevent Trump doing fascist things like genocide. I’ve been laying on that pressure to push them further left by posting online, or something. If they don’t listen, I’ll primary them out… unless of course they know better than us and tweak the primaries a little.
I mean yeah I’ll keep voting for the same people, but they should know I’m very upset.
I don’t like that that feels so relatable.
Although I also say loudly and to anyone who will listen in real life that I wish to chop the heads off of billionaires and burn all of their headquarters to the ground. Hopefully, they resonate with that and we can get this ball rolling.
If I fall asleep earlier, I can skip both dinner and feeling sad.
Big dinner and big therapy hate this simple trick
The bread and circuses are getting worse, and more expensive.
I love how I’ve been seeing more and more of these articles, and in ways they seem accusatory of GenZ/Millenials for not consuming.
I’d like to believe that just as much of folks not going out is them realizing from the pandemic that they don’t need to do it to be happy, as it is that they don’t have the money to go out. Just don’t do it. Have a close group of friends you enjoy. Don’t shell out money to poison your mind/body. There can be an upside to this.
The 80s and 90s made me believe that a bar was where you met friends, and frequent attendance was important. But when I actually worked at a bar, holy shit. The regulars were sad drunks.
I love bars, and they are often a place I go to meet friends. But I probably drove there so I can’t exactly get drunk. Besides, who can afford those bar tabs on the regular. I’m going to be nursing those drinks for a while.
But I’m also finding a resistance to friends going to visit each other. You don’t have to spend money to see people, but it seems like even the effort to see people isn’t happening.
That’s a good point. I have found that post-pandemic people seem to also be a lot more accustomed to canceling last minute. I almost have more success having semi-large work gatherings than small friend ones.
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I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you do form a connection with someone who does wanna check in.
I’m old and my friends live all over the country. I send them 2-3 messages a year. Good friends imo.
I think cultural norms try to frame friendship as this magical connection. But really it’s a super nice person you met one time and now send Christmas cards and say hi to.
I go to bed early because I’m tired ALL the time
What are they to do?
Shrinking discretionary budget, more and more responsibilities at work (multiple roles condensed into one), and a looming sense you are easily replaceable with layoffs and AI tools.
On the other, if you are taught your only worth is your job, there is no point in exploring outside of that, and spending your energy on things that won’t make you a good worker.Can’t even binge watch things with streaming services constantly jacking up their prices.
Yarr
When you’re asleep there’s no lonely times.
BRINGO
Unless you dream about being lonely. 💀
Those darn kids, going to bed early, and not partying!
Are Millennials killing off the Evening Entertainment Industry???
(Paywall, can’t read – but) I spend over 8 hours per day working before I have time for cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. It’s around 9pm when my life begins. Who has time to sleep early?
People who lose all interest in doing anything and can’t stand being conscious any longer than absolutely neccessary
Some say it’s a matter of attitude, of seeing all of your day aa YOUR life.
Would love to know how to have that attitude…
I’m in bed early, up early, and I don’t go out. That’s been my MO for years now. I like it that way and don’t intend to change it. There’s not much that interests me anymore anyway.
I don’t think they are missing very much. Staying out late to “party” has always been overrated. It made a little more sense as a form of entertainment decades ago. These days you can be entertained in a variety of ways. As for social mixing, playing sports, table top games with friends, or volunteering are much more fulfilling activities than late night clubbing. Ryan George has a funny video about how awful nightclubs are.
I have a library a few blocks from my building and my bed is comfy and well-suited to reading.
That’s my excuse.
When I was their age we partied all night long and making capitalism successful!
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