• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think the point is if either gets fired their livelihoods are at risk. Therefore, making them the same class with the same financial precarity.

    Maybe 250k can be unemployed for a bit longer, but ultimately they must return to work.

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      9 months ago

      Usually, to get a $250k job you need to have $250k job trappings, aka you’re unlikely to get or keep that job while living, dressing or eating etc as a $50k job person, ending up in the situation you described.

      Minimalism seems to be a way to escape the rat-race even through salary, but it seems like a strategy for after you have proven yourself indispensable in a high paying job, not something most people can or will achieve, or are able to then make the necessary life changes.

      TLDR if you are a worker become part of a union no matter what salary you’re on.