Concentrated effort
July 9th, 2024
Warning — this is NOT a conspiracy theory. All that is being said here are just my thoughts (for better or worse) and my own analysis of the reality of what is happening to the working class around the world and the concentrated corporate effort to keep the said working class too tired from overworking to think and (hopefully one day) act on those disgusting measures employed against them.
I see it with my own eyes. I hear it from people around me, and from people from all further circles of common acquaintances. I read about it in serious form, and in “crying-through-lols” memes. It is no longer just a happenstance, but it seems like a concentrated effort by our ruling class, i.e. corporations, to yoke all employees under so much weight that they can no longer function as normal and fully engaged members of society. Everyone I know is terrifyingly overworked. And that is not something that I just imagined. I have been working since I was 18, so now it is 32 years in the workforce already. I worked in different companies in different countries on different continents, surrounded by only a few or a few thousand coworkers in several completely different industries. No matter where I worked, or what I did — I always kept my eyes open to the plight of the employees there. I know that what I see today is much worse than anything I’ve seen throughout my working career. It is so much more widespread as well. The quantity of work is rising monthly, and quotas are being raised as well to the level that seems no longer humanly possible to reach. Vacant job posts are unfilled after somebody leaves or is fired, only the work of that person is being distributed among those who are left. Pay has been being raised as well since the pandemic, but the rise doesn't bring any less responsibility for those in the corporate world. Everyone I know is tired, just hanging by a thread and trying to survive for another day, another week, another month, because any new work can be even worse and, besides, there are bills to pay, mortgages, and the expenses for the kids.
I don't remember the morale in the widely understood workforce being so low, and without direct action there is no possibility for change. Of course, everyone is too tired for direct action and it is too hot anyway…
