Thread by @Crymmsun

@kittynouveau I started working a paycheck paying job at 14. The federal minimum wage? $2.30 an hour. What are servers and many food service workers making 44 years later? $2.15 an hour.

I'm 58 and still having to work minimum or close to minimum wage jobs. Yes, I have a degree. Back at it 2.

@kittynouveau 2/ I'm higher educated. I grew up true middle to upper middle class. My parents were the first generation off the farm/off the line. My adult life hasn't been 9-5 though, at times, I've strove for such. What did working from 14-34, becoming an unpaid family member caregiver the

@kittynouveau 3/ next 20 years, then reentering the paycheck paying workforce at the age of 53 with virtually no claim to actual marketable skill sets, not to mention the challenges of weight prejudice ageism, and neurodivergence - what have my experiences taught me?

@kittynouveau 4/ That greed and manipulated consumerism is what we're all working our asses off for. Indoctrination to this culture starts in the womb. The top looks at us wage slaves and points their fingers down, we're encouraged not to be critical thinkers from the moment we're born so

@kittynouveau 5/ the collective populace doesn't research and the blame for the wage slavexs crappy life problems is easily shifted downwards to those even less fortunate just as the top's pointing finger directed. Distraction is an abuser's tool, time is a luxury only some can now afford.

@kittynouveau 6/ I'm tired of hearing this country and that country pays mass taxes for socialized health care and free education all the way to degree-land. I know the taxes I'm paying here, to a government who'd literally rather see me dead (yes, some of them), don't go anywhere I want or

@kittynouveau 7/ even know most of the time. Oh, they tell you but then some other bill comes along and funds are shifted... FFS! I'll pay more, but damn well expect #Bezos, #Musk, #Gates, and their ilk to be Taxed On Their Wealth and NOT their labor! FFS, Bezos got EIC in 2011! I'll pay if

@kittynouveau 8/ if I know it's going for collective health care and education all the way. Real education. Transparent education. Education that teaches HOW to think not WHAT to think. /#rant

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