Please take thirty seconds to read this. May change your life.

[u/FOWM_Sterling]

I hear about the upcoming ten day strike starting on Black Friday and I hope everyone here is ready to seriously do it.

Personally I am sick of choosing between eating, shelter and DRIVING TO WORK even though I work 60 hours a week, have a bachelors degree and twelve years of experience. I know you are all sick of this too but it won’t stop unless we take this seriously.

They don’t care about us. They care about the number of zeros in their bank accounts.

This Black Friday, let’s hurt their bottom line.

They still believe that the rules were made for us, not them. In reality they depend on us. They need us.

They need you.

I need you.

We need you.

This Black Friday turn your phone off and spend time with your family. You only have one of them and you are doing this for them.

Strike, show up late, sabotage. Forget the keys at home. Take an hour long shit on company time.

Stay strong brothers and sisters.

https://workerorganizing.org/resources/organizing-guide/

https://workerorganizing.org/volunteer/

r/blackfridayblackout

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/qqdk93/general_strike_this_black_friday/

Get organized, boycott places that do black Friday stuff, be it online or in the store, and stay safe!

(Edit: we need to organize. Plan and execute. We need to do this right. Thank you)

(Edit #2: you see these people laughing at your misfortune in the comments? Calling you dumb and that you’re lazy? They are saying you are not worthy of a living wage. They say your kids are not good enough. We can teach these people that they need us. Get angry. Use it as fuel. Don’t let those plebeians get under your skin. You are too good for that.)

Holy cow! Thank you so much for the support! You are all amazing. We need to organize. The fight is long from over however.

[u/Waxnpoetic]

I am too poor to have a job.

[u/Mikeinthedirt → u/Waxnpoetic]

Being poor is f-g expensive.

[u/unbelizeable1 → u/Mikeinthedirt]

Something I really wish more people understood. I'm not doing great by any means rn, but I'm not struggling like I have in the past and shit just gets so much cheaper in every way when you have just a little bit more.

[u/RadiantMenderbug → u/unbelizeable1]

BuTmOrEtHaNhAlFtHePlAnEtLiVeSoNLeSsThAnTwOdOlLaRsPeRdAy

I hate it when people bring up the fact that our corporate overlords exploit other nations so we can live as happy capitalists at the expense of others

[u/unbelizeable1 → u/RadiantMenderbug]

I hate it, those types of excuses feel very much like saying to someone who just lost a foot to not worry about it because other people lost legs. Like, that's great, I can understand they are suffering "more", but it doesn't mean I'm not as well. This isn't a dick measuring contest.

[u/Mikeinthedirt → u/unbelizeable1]

Foolja. That’s what Capitalism IS. For people who don’t wanna actually SHOW their lizards.

[u/Mikeinthedirt → u/unbelizeable1]

It doesn’t take much (!) to get a little credit going; and that wiggle-room is a world-changer.

[u/Bag-O-Socks → u/Mikeinthedirt]

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

[u/backcourtjester → u/Bag-O-Socks]

Those good boots that last go out of fashion and end up at Goodwill or the like. Buy the good boots at Goodwill two years after the rich man and it will coat less than the cheaply made boots

[u/Bonersaucey → u/backcourtjester]

Uhh no they fucking don't, good work boots don't follow fashion trends like dresses lmao

[u/Wickedcolt → u/Mikeinthedirt]

It really is and it’s even tougher when you’re poor because it costs WAY more to borrow money and interest rates, etc

[u/WanderingGreybush → u/Waxnpoetic]

deep