• Leiya@mastodon.social
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    12 days ago

    @yogthos ah yes, but what if we all became landlords and bosses?! That should fix the problem… Heeey… Wait a minute! 🤔😅🤦🏼‍♀️

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    God, I remember when I was a little kid I once said something like, “When I grow up, I’m gonna be a boss, so that way I won’t have to work for anybody” — and the grown-up with me said, “Well, you can’t just become a boss. You need to work hard and get promotions and then you’ll be a boss. So you’ll still need to work a whole awful lot to reach that level. Do you think you have it in you?”

    …I was very disappointed to learn that I couldn’t escape working by just wishing really hard.

    With time I’d eventually come to learn that it was not only impossible to wish oneself out of working, but that the grown-up’s line about “working really hard” was bogus, too.

    Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837

    Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837

    “We Will Talk of Nothing Else”: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837

  • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    I always thought it went more like this:
    “If you don’t like being exploited, then become a good employeer to set good standards”
    but I guess not…