DerRedMax [comrade/them, any]

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Cake day: February 27th, 2024

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  • It’s rarely two 9-5 M-F jobs that add up to 40 hours a week.

    It’s usually a combination of a primary job that is just below the threshold of full time and therefore doesn’t qualify for basic benefits like health insurance, paid time off, or retirement <32 hours.

    Usually the second job is in the evening and weekends. Service jobs, retail, etc. Often the schedule varies wildly and changes often.

    Typically both jobs are paid hourly and can end at any time.

    A lot of people work much more than 40 hours per week, but don’t have the security of a full time, salaried job.

















  • Damn. That takes me back in time!

    I remember being outraged by that. I went to protests with people who were also outraged by that.

    It was a driver for me to go out and find what little media was outraged about it, too, which at the time was Maddow and Majority Report.

    Hearing that the Democrats are using the same argument is shocking, because it was plain as day that was not even an argument based on reality. The whole time I thought those people in the media shared that same understanding of reality. Apparently not.