I'm a VP with a biggish company. Every year, the first week of the year the senior managers from across the US fly somewhere warm, play golf, shoot guns, sit by a beach or a pool, get wasted, ham handedly try to cheat on their spouses and have meetings about how to take more of your labor value. Obviously due to covid that won't be a thing this year, and instead the conferences are virtual, so me, and a couple hundred other ghouls who already make six figures + got shipped huge snack boxes, boxes of booze and received $500 credits at door dash. The CEO just gave his kickoff presentation and, with all the money they saved from not paying for travel they're giving away ten k worth of Amazon gift cards and a brand new Tesla. So just who is eligible for this windfall, you ask. The hundreds of warehouse workers who couldn't work from home, the truck drivers out on the road, installers and sales people exposing themselves to covid every day? Nah, us couple hundred ghouls already making incomes in the top 5%. Can I just guillotine myself and be done with this already?

  • J_Edbear_Hoover [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, it was the latter. Something just clicked one day when I stopped looking past the swathes of umhoused people in the bay and I realized that I only had what had because people had to live like they did. Eventually I was watching a bunch of cargo ships go under the Bay Bridge and extrapolated that to the rest of the world. Kind of hard to unswallow the red pill.

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Good on you for making this realization when it was against your bests interests to do so. It's heartening to see that it is possible.

      As for what you should do, definitely don't guillotine yourself. In your position, I'd fund the most radical leftist groups I could find, domestic and otherwise. I'm sure there are more considered responses elsewhere, of course.

      • Rabid_Dog [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah donate to Kamala Harris 2024 campaign drive! They could really use the money

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          My man Pete is hot and ready and this is how you do him? You're not getting invited to Chuck E. Cheese when we win, fucko.