Our local paper just did a story on this this morning. Only 44% of full time workers here make a living wage due to the low wages.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/living-wage-philadelphia-dayforce-work-20260429.html

$7.25 minimum wage still exist here in this state while across the river its more than $15

Its definitely a big uptick here in my city since the week before Christmas and it was way more apparent with the amount of sick people still trying to commute to work with public transit today after the holidays have ended. Also directly dealing with about 80/20 sick people atm with my job, seems meds are the main thing people are wanting expressed atm.

Only ones that belive most of this anymore are the ones that don’t go out and interact with the public or dont read/watch much outside of their entertainment echo chamber, which is still a lot of people but they aren’t thinking much outside of the headlines. The labor market is shit right now for anyone that’s actually looking for work. From my experience on this lots of employers are interviewing, yes there are multiple rounds in the most basic jobs lately, to then get offered wages so low it’s better to go in the gig market and cater to the wealthy.

I wish I was joking but when this was ongoing last year I did over 50 interviews with dozens of companies hr departments, not recruiters, to be offered wages lower than what indeed and glassdoor data showed others were being paid pre 2024. I did sales so seeing base salaries so low and commission rates lowered compared to before it’s was an early sign these companies are either low on cash from lack of spending or a greater push towards outsourcing labor oversees like my last 2 employers before that did since they can pay $2 an hour to have someone make cold calls all day in Vietnam and have the older folks in the company take the leads and keep the commissions to afford their bloated lifestyles post covid.

The same is for the Neverending growth of the publicly traded companies that are forced to keep finding ways to spend less so they have higher payouts/dividends for the same folks in that older generation with bloated lifestyles. Sadly that “best” way to lower spending is to lay off workers and then next year a couple more then a couple more as AI (really offshoring) takes them all like the manufacturing jobs.

Too many distractions from reality sadly as well as the “If it doesn’t affect me then why should I care” mindsets. I’ve got friends who would also fit into the demographics to be harassed but fall into these mindsets. I will continue to protests as they happen locally as many more people should. It seems to have pushed the local DA to be on our side publicly against ICE abuses if they do deploy here

OANN is the only ones that signed? Looks like we’ll just be seeing crappy social media posts from the Pentagon instead of actual information for now on

At this rate how are they are touching close to being considered like the klan for kidnapping people in the night, since there is 0 form of way of identifying who is taking people anymore. Threading the worst kinds of water right now

This might be a bigger year than usual for being gifted digital services than traditional gifts with there looking like there will be less stock of physical products. Isn’t Walmart apparently no longer stocking the Xbox soon too? Gamepass can be played on anything that gamer already has, so one for the best examples I can make of that kind of change.

I love how this running joke keeps going to just to prove the point there’s no riot in the streets lol. Keep multiplying frogger and friends

But the fuhrer demands it! /s

Money is no cost in their eyes to attempt to stomp out any movements against them

Thankfully the generals in the National Guard are listening to the courts, unlike the politicial side of government. I’m sure many of them realize they are the true last stand to keeping things civil as a country when the federal government appears to want to overthrow local elected officials in states it doesn’t like. We are in unprecedented waters with every move these fools in power attempt

No one should have to live in this type of fear…