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They came up with a new word for “working multiple jobs to survive”

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wasn't civilization built on people having enough time to specialize in something, instead of doing a bunch of different things?
on fascist regimes you always have an overvalorization at the symbolic level (with beautifull words) to compensate the destruction of the working condition (so at the material level). It is funny to see how that crap is working ...
my parents bought a house and raised four children on one income. Dad brought home the bacon and Mom was the home maker. I loved it. Seems so quaint, doesn’t it.

@MrEdgarBass

Yup, and our parents had sustainable defined benefit pensions, too. Now, for many of us, it takes 2 incomes to not even have any of those things. So our standard of living has dropped by more than half. Yet idiotic economists like Paul Krugman tell us that our economy is booming.

@Yogthos

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@unfinishedsymphony My father was one of the beneficiaries of the great treatment for veterans following World War II. Paid for his college. Got a great deal on a new house that he lived in for sixty years. Tax brackets were quite different then #ThanksSocialism #TaxTheRich
@MrEdgarBass @Yogthos
Of course, these benefits were largely denied to black veterans, a huge contributor to the asset disparity between white and black Americans.
thehill.com/opinion/4982581-gi…
@unfinishedsymphony one of my friends is 101. Was already in the army when the war broke out. From North Carolina and ended up in New York. I’ll ask him about that. Never went to college but definitely bought a house. Married and raised two sons on one income.
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@zdl indeed they are, it's incredible to watch all the euphemisms they come up with to dress it up as something positive