It
sounds unbelievable, but in one of supposedly the most advanced
European nations, the government plans to allow the working day to be
extended to 12 hours!
We are
talking about Austria, where tens
of thousands of people in Vienna packed the
streets on Saturday to voice their opposition to loosening labor laws
to allow for a 12-hour workday and subsequent 60-hour workweek.
Police in Vienna said some 80,000 people took part, while the trade
unions that organized the protest said some 100,000 people attended.
What can
someone say about this unimaginably absurd decision?
In an
age of all this advanced technology, with AI and hyper-automation,
people should work less hours, enjoying all the benefits and extra
free time for their families and themselves. Yet, in the homeland of
Austrian economics that led us to brutal neoliberalism, it seems that
the elites push things to the opposite direction. Why? Is it just
because human labor can't compete the machines?
Think
about it. The elites are breaking
the social contract because the increasingly
advanced machines create an accelerating unbalance with a rapidly
growing tank of human labor, which, unavoidably, becomes cheaper and
cheaper.
So, you
work harder and harder just to cover your basic needs. As you
struggle to survive, there is no time and energy to fight for your
rights. And as your resistance against this brutality is almost zero,
it is easier for the 'patricians' to keep you imprisoned in this
vicious circle of slavery. Now, they want you to work 12 hours, which
means that soon it would be impossible to break the circle.
In the
US we had an unprecedented onslaught against the public sector
unions. The elites are ready for the perfect crime:
So, the
goal is simple: to exploit you until the last drop of your blood
before they throw you to the dustbin, replacing you by a machine.
Yet,
there are signs
of resistance
in the US political process. The battle will be long and
hard ...
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