MooNiNite Posted January 18, 2019 The idea of escaping the 40 hour work week is more and more evaporating from the youth and society. Organizations of high echelons perpetuate the philosophy of danger, plight and abstruse. They own both sides of the same coin, (left, right, repulican, democrat) and imbalance and rebalance only to disbalance. It is now highly democratic it is gauranteed to flip sodes after making a full revolution. Only to perpetuate again. They want you to work with hopelessness ever shrouding. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) Actually I thought we were seeing more youth/millenials willing to give up higher pay (and hours) for more free time. They're marrying later (or not at all), having fewer kids etc., I don't see a revolution brewing but I do agree leadership is using fear to try to persuade people to there positions. Not exactly a new development but stronger then usual. Without huge need, the call for fear is less potent though. imo odds are we'll see a shift away from it. A calm level headed leader can be equally popular as the demagogue. Societally, if THEM**, who ever them are, opt for creating a more socialist policies with fewer work hours that comes at a cost too. It is a competitive world. Fall too far behind and you go bankrupt. You could go further down the rabbit hole into Communism, but that has an even larger share of problems. Communes often fail, requiring very hard work for idealistic rewards. Living simpler and thriftier is a valid choice and hopefully open to many. Probably a good solution, but all solutions take work, risk and sacrifice. Actually the U.S doing pretty well, relatively. Prosperity helps. As more people work, wages will rise. Workers will get more bargaining power and if they want fewer hours they'll get it. There's plenty of politically stupidity around, but the stalemates are largely artificial and easily solved with simple compromise. Which will grow to be inevitable. **THEM.. imo, Them tends to be a whole mess of people and groups with conflicting desires and goals. Often its the generic name for groups that oppose what you want. They're THEM, groups that agree with you are us. Edited January 18, 2019 by thelerner 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MooNiNite Posted January 18, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/lausd-strike-schools.html Are these protestors really protesting for more funding and fewer charters? Or is that what they want you to think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted January 19, 2019 Don't know about them, but I have a teacher friend who highly dislikes charters. His main points are in Chicago, they tend to pay teachers much less, depending on the school, not give them health insurance. Because they can pick there kids, so they can 'poach' the best and leave problem kids at public schools. He feels privatizing education hurts public schools in the short and long run. The advantages are, they cost the cities less, which is good for the cities, and can set tighter rules for staff and students. Some perhaps many have better academic outcomes then public schools, but some of that is because they can pick and choose. Some is because they can practice newer bolder systems of teaching and may get more of the all important buy in from parents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
