Lesson in media literacy #4

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6664201

This was inspired after seeing the original article posted here. It’s pretty basic stuff for this community but you never know.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    5 days ago

    porky-point: “Hey poors! I need more work done! Come in sick!”

    doomjak: “please sir……just one job….”

    porky-happy: “Sorry kiddo, can’t help ya. I’m all set for workers!”

    How do both of these problems exist? (I know why, porky wants more labor done out of the ever-shrinking labor force so he can get it for free…but I don’t want to hear about the economy receeding. It’s porky’s fault for refusing to put people to work.)

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      Not to mention that the German labor market is plagued by “mini jobs”, where they won’t give you over a certain amount of hours a week, and they don’t have to give you benefits. But sure, the obviously overworked workers getting sick is a ploy to slow down the economy.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        What’s extra funny is that even capitalist economics will tell you that capital cannot be an all take and no give deal, no matter how much it wants to.

        Income inequality is bad for the economy, and as much as the porks like to think that they’ll take on doing all the consuming…they’re too miserly to actually spend money that they would rather sit on and do nothing with.

        Unemployment is bad for the economy and human health…hard to survive when no one wants to provide you with a means of survival. I shit you not, I tried using a treat printer for job advice and they started telling me to consider “alternative lifestyles”, even the treat printer is too intellectually lazy to imagine porky expanding his business whether he wants to or not. It is easier to imagine people that porky is simply too picky to put to work to just abandon their friends and family and return to monke before entry-level jobs becoming a thing again.