One of U.S. capitalism's sick tricks is making you feel guilty for taking a day off.
If your coworkers are slammed because you're out, that's not your fault - that's your company's fault for under-hiring.
everyone loves the free market until a handful of monopolistic oil companies leverage a war to make record profits by artificially inflating gas prices
I wish we lived in a world where it was normalized to not pressure people to make certain life steps simply because of their age. generations are categorized for a reason.
Don't take anything anyone says personally:
People are going through their own sh*t too. You never know.
It's not their intention to put you down.
At the end, what you think about yourself matters most.
Lesson: Your opinion of yourself is the most important.
The unemployment rate for those looking for full time jobs that pay a living wage, but are unable to find one, is a staggering 22.8%.
Again—it’s not a labor shortage, it’s a living wage shortage.
Since we raised our minimum wage to $70k:
*10x more employees had kids
*10x more employees bought homes
*Our retention rate doubled
*Head count nearly doubled
*401(k) contributions grew 155%
*70% of employees paid down debt
*Revenue tripled
*Zero big companies followed suit