Solidarity, mutual aid and unions are the only way we escape the trap but they have every crab pinching for their own scraps. Even if you can’t support others the scorn you display puts you right in their pocket.
My point isn’t that your mutual acquaintance should become a steward.
There are myriad reasons why someone might decline a checker position. Maybe they are disabled and can’t stand for 8 hours, as goes the American Way. Maybe they have no reliable transportation and their city has no infrastructure.
Your positioning it as a moral failure is part of the systemic problem that keeps us all from rising above the chokehold the wealthy have on workers.
In this particular case, neither of those things were at play. It’s also not the first job they refused to even apply for.
Someone needs help, fine. Someone needs help twice, okay. Someone needs help monthly every month for the last four years…yeah I’m starting to think help isn’t the answer.
Solidarity, mutual aid and unions are the only way we escape the trap but they have every crab pinching for their own scraps. Even if you can’t support others the scorn you display puts you right in their pocket.
If you can’t figure out how to feed and house yourself, I really don’t think you’re about to be leading a unionization drive.
Matter of fact, without a job, I’m not entirely sure what you’re gonna be unionizing.
My point isn’t that your mutual acquaintance should become a steward.
There are myriad reasons why someone might decline a checker position. Maybe they are disabled and can’t stand for 8 hours, as goes the American Way. Maybe they have no reliable transportation and their city has no infrastructure.
Your positioning it as a moral failure is part of the systemic problem that keeps us all from rising above the chokehold the wealthy have on workers.
In this particular case, neither of those things were at play. It’s also not the first job they refused to even apply for.
Someone needs help, fine. Someone needs help twice, okay. Someone needs help monthly every month for the last four years…yeah I’m starting to think help isn’t the answer.