#underpaid

[mattsmemes]

[talecueprompts]

Anti-Capitalist Prompts For The Overworked and Underpaid

He sold you burnout as ambition, and you almost thanked him for the privilege.

She posts self care tips, then underpays her interns and calls it hustle culture.

He says money is just energy, which is cute when rent is eating you alive.

She branded exploitation as a dream job, and you still wore the company hoodie.

He tells you to work harder, like exhaustion is a personality flaw.

She turns layoffs into LinkedIn poetry, and somehow expects you to clap.

He calls poverty a mindset, because empathy would ruin his whole aesthetic.

She sells five minute planners to fix a life capitalism already shredded.

He says grind now, rest later, like your twenties are disposable packaging.

She made survival look lazy, then charged you for a productivity masterclass.

He worships billionaires because apparently bootlicking counts as financial literacy now.

She says everyone has equal chances, and you almost choke on the delusion.

He treats healthcare like a luxury upgrade, because apparently breathing is premium now.

She romanticizes side hustles, as if sleep and dignity were optional subscriptions.

He calls job hopping disloyal, while his company drops people like expired coupons.

She says passion should be enough, right before asking you to work unpaid.

He treats your panic like poor time management, not a system chewing through people.

She sells minimalism from a penthouse, which feels like parody writing itself.

He says the market decides, like greed is some neutral little weather pattern.

She tells you networking matters most, because talent alone does not feed shareholders.

He packages insecurity, sells it back, then acts shocked when you hate yourself.

She says nobody wants to work anymore, and you hear nobody wants exploitation exposed.

He built his brand on authenticity, then monetized every soft spot you had.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta companies ordered to repay almost $165K to temporary foreign workers | CBC News

Two Alberta-based companies are appealing a decision by the Ontario Labour Ministry that said they unlawfully charged fees to workers for jo

Two Alberta-based companies are appealing Ontario labour ministry decisions that say they charged temporary foreign workers tens of thousands of dollars to be placed in retail jobs at a Canadian Tire. The companies were ordered to repay almost $165,000. Some of the workers were originally from the Philippines but ended up at a Canadian Tire in Etobicoke, Ont. Though they said they each paid up to $7,900 US to an Alberta company to get the position, once they got the jobs, they say they were underpaid and poorly treated. Many of the workers quit and found jobs in Atlantic Canada and other provinces around the country.

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[theoddest1]

Love how she says this, and 8 years later, proceeds to outsource and have shit working conditions. Fanbase sure likes ignoring shit like this, tho.

But sure, she's an amazing boss and an amazing person, surely. 😃

[projectpravaha]

On Liberal Arts

Where do the students of liberal arts go, after mastering history’s truths, philosophy’s provocations, and sociology’s structures? They exit universities with minds sharpened but pockets empty, not for lack of intelligence, but because the market deems their knowledge untranslatable. Their CVs are heavy with ideas but light on “hard skills.” They drift into underpaid roles or unrelated industries, watching the very disciplines that scaffold society be dismissed as indulgent or obsolete.

But is this the fault of liberal arts? Or is it the blindness of an economy that can quantify code but not conscience?

The current system appears to conflate demand with value. Tech is in demand, so tech is valued. But politics, economics, law, philosophy—these are not industries. They are inheritances. They are the ancient ligaments of the body politic, the compass for collective existence. Long before a line of code was ever typed, societies were debating governance under banyan trees and in Greek agoras. Without understanding justice, no software can solve social inequality; without political wisdom, no innovation can protect peace.

And yet, here we are—treating the liberal arts as ornamental in a house that is crumbling.

Education is not merely a production line for employment—it is the crucible in which societies sculpt their conscience.

As liberal arts students, we do not seek pity. We seek purpose. And we offer something indispensable in return—context. A code without context can build an empire or a surveillance state. But a society that knows its stories, its struggles, its philosophies—that is a society that endures.

In a world obsessed with speed, liberal arts teaches us why we are running.

And that question—more than any algorithm—is what might save us.

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[no-save-point]

well. what a day.

I'm gonna go curl up in my bed with my bowl of butter pasta and anime now 🧑🏻‍🩰

[disegnidipizzo]

i need to buy an antiparasitic