https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/whirlpool-ceo-says-hes-starting-to-get-worried-the-us-labor-shortage-may-become-structural.html

  • Gonzalo [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    tfw you destroy the standard of living to the point that your wage slaves stop having kids

    :confusion:

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We're a small pile of money away from Democrats doing a 180 on birth control and abortion.

      • Gonzalo [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The Democratic party already has abandoned reproductive rights, that’s why they let those conservative supreme court justices through.

        They’re just not going to admit it publicly to the pay pigs who voooote for them.

        • cawsby [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The neoliberals co-opted the women's liberation movement in the United States and made it mostly about abortion and white women breaking glass ceilings. Don't worry, we will always protect abortion, they said. Well, they didn't protect their seats on the supreme court and now we are in this mess.

          In the 1970's when socialists and labor were involved in the women's movement they were demanding universal healthcare, universal childcare, etc and if you might've noticed the democrats have completely abandoned or means-tested those programs to oblivion.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Tfw you've been exporting slavery worldwide and the labour aristocracy at the heart of empire is no longer necessary

      :porky-happy:

      • Gonzalo [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yup.

        On one hand: :sicko-yes:

        On the other hand: :sicko-no:

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          it's because the capitalists can't outsource everything. the maintenance of the homes they own and the infrastructure they use, the people who raise their children, cook their meals, clean their laundry, bring them treats, rub their backs, who guard them while they sleep... none of that can be sent elsewhere.

          that's why they are freaking out. because they can't do shit for themselves. and if the price of labor goes up, the calculus of their fiefs might shrink.