How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.

Covid capitalized on it.

People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.

Even when we all know its exploitive labor.

It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).

Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.

It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.

  • Magiilaro@feddit.org
    2·
    17 hours ago

    Great idea, we still have some buildings here in germany that were used for such a cleansing purpose before! I am sure they only need a bit of maintenance.

    The above is sarcasm!

    Killing people, and even more so genocide or mass murder, is NEVER a valid option! Every idea, ideology or system that includes killing people is always rotten to the core!

    • Devolution@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Those rich fucks would off you without a second thought. They don’t understand anything beyond greed and fear.

      • Magiilaro@feddit.org
        1·
        6 hours ago

        So you propose the Final Solution to the Rich Question then? Maybe you should read a history book, and ask yourself if you are the baddy!

        • Devolution@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Read plenty of then. Find me a history where the ruling class was the oppressed? The marginalized?

          Wait. You can’t.

          • Magiilaro@feddit.org
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Well, you can’t really call them the ruling class anymore when you start to round them up for the killing squads. They become the oppressed in exactly that moment.

            • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
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              26 minutes ago

              In @[email protected]’s defense, the gory French Revolution, American Revolutionary War, etc. all led to socioeconomic improvements, as far as I know. They’re not advocating for genocide, but just for the highest ruling class to be clamped down on.