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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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This just isn't true in the US. There's absolutely a culture among older generations here of people working their ass off for nothing. And those people look down on younger folks who aren't as stupid as they are, and don't give away their labor for free.
"I just can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to work!" --my grandma, who's been supported by my grandpa's money for as long as I can remember.
Yeah, the people who were brainwashed into thinking that 'working just to work is great,' are undeniably unconcerned with the rest of us, and far too many people think that way.
While it's true that I would want to do something productive with my downtime, and not be wasting it on video games or whatever, I definitely don't want to do it for some CEO or other higher power who cares as much about me, as I do about the ants in my yard.
You're falling for that propaganda too, a little bit; as are we all. We don't need to be productive every moment of the day - hell, studies have shown that humans are only really productive about 4 hours out of the day. If you work a 9-5 style job, 4 hours of every day is spent doing things other than being productive. So don't feel guilty for doing things just because they make you happy. Play video games, make Warhammer models, do silly little drawings that only you will ever see, whatever makes you happy, simply because that's what life is about: doing things that make us happy. Time spent doing that is never time wasted, and screw the people that tried to convince entire generations that we only have worth as a person if we're being "productive."
This.
Not only look down on, but accuse younger generations of being “disrespectful” for not accepting them same level of exploitation from them.