Seriously. I read an article saying that people will be buying bigger houses to make working from home more comfortable in these pandemic times. The fuck?
Yeah. I read the article and it would actually be a good take... if it weren't completely insincere. Higher taxes on white collar workers like me, that go directly towards supporting blue collar essential workers are a good thing.
But this is really just a plea to "make magic line go up" by taxing workers and not companies / the ruling elite. And we know the money wouldn't actually go towards essential workers. And of course they try to camouflage it all in language of "fairness" and "helping others."
Edit: To elaborate further, the general idea of the collective population helping support services that not everyone necessarily uses is a good one. We should have public transit and the full cost should not be placed on just those people who need to use it or choose to use it. But we all know Deutsche Bank gives zero shits about public transportation.
Working from home, at least if it wasn't your choice, sucks dick shit I'm sorry. I go through most days without even seeing a single human being. Calls even with video are not the same thing. I sit in my desk chair at my computer like 10 hours a day. Then the weekend comes! Finally, time to relax by sitting in the exact same chair in the exact same room at the exact same desk, but "not working." I can't go do fun shit to decompress because not a single "western" country can get a handle on this nonsense. Humans are not made for this shit.
You know what sucks more shit? Being forced to go to work in public in a pandemic and be around other people who could infect you. That sucks more.
Thank you for the suggestion. I'm exaggerating for effect, I do have activities outside the computer, though I recognize that the stress of the situation has sapped my focus and motivation to do them. I'm dealing with these things, but still I wish things were different.
Lol holy fucking shit I hate these people. You know how much more I work since starting to work from home? I was online from 730am to 10pm last night, taking a one hour break for dinner at 6pm. Guess how much my pay has increased since this "luxury" started? If you guessed it went down by 16% due to being laid off for the months, you are correct!! And I'm lucky; I have a job.
Line these assholes up against a wall, and murder them. Fuck.
It's a continuation of our political platform titled "Fuck the Poor"
You gotta admire thier commitment to finding barely defendable reasons to divide the working class even more.
Anything but more corporate or wealth tax. Anything!
It literally costs employers less when people work from home. And it's actively a good thing for people who can work from home to do so during the pandemic. This suggestion is actually insane. Especially since, again, WFH actually moves some expenses from the employer to the employee (i.e. utilities, insurance, some supplies and equipment). Which strategist in their right mind is thinking that employees should be penalized and encouraged to actively increase the costs of doing business. They've internalized being punitive to their employees so hard that they're actually costing businesses money to do so.
When even fucking Bloomberg puts "privilege" in scare quotes you know you've got an incredibly shitty take.
I have a theory that Trump is big part of Deutche's money laundering schemes which is why he's allowed to default on so much debt
I cannot fucking wait till their ivory tower comes crashing down and these people will be trapped under the rubble, we will not dig, we will party on top of their ruins.
Yeah alright. I'll pay a tenner extra a week in tax.
Provided my employer pays for 2 3rds my internet bill, a quarter of my rent, a fifth of my electric bill and half my gas bill in winter months.
“We are feeling a slight inconvenience in our way of life.” :capitalist:
