How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive

Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by eyelidlessness on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:01PM (#26137860)

I think the thing you’re missing, probably because of whatever motivated you to use “prole” without irony, is you’re not a prole and don’t experience the economic impact of being inherently undervalued. People who never experience compensation resembling what they “put in” and are constantly navigating burnout.

It’s not egotistical it’s just a matter of perspective. Most people don’t get to decide or don’t have enough energy to decide to “get mine” even if they knew where to begin.

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Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by esotericn on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:06PM (#26137899)

You are absolutely right on every point.

There was a time, when I was.

And I've been blindingly lucky to crawl, bit by bit, out of that.

But I still identify with that, because precisely the same societal decisions that fuck me, are the ones that fuck them too.

I owe them something. They're still struggling.

I don't owe the rest of society anything at all.

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Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by eyelidlessness on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:09PM (#26137912)

I suspected that was in the mix and wanted to leave space for you to say so. I’ve been on this track too. This is why my approach is to extract as much value out of my privilege as I can and funnel as much of that as I can to my people who don’t share that privilege.

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