- cross-posted to:
- antiwork@lemmit.online
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- antiwork@lemmit.online
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much.
House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday throwing cold water on President Joe Biden’s plan to give more workers overtime protections.
Even though the hearing was about employees who work long hours, the GOP chair of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce took a moment to argue that too many Americans don’t want to work at all.
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period … and want other people to take care of them,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).
Don’t we have a record number of people in the workforce and a really low unemployment rate?
Not to mention a lot of people with 2-3 jobs because pay is low.
Unemployment may be low, but a lot of those jobs are minimum wage and/or part time.
Yeah but we all hate our jobs so “no one wants work work” is accurate. We do it, but we wish we didn’t have to.
Anytime anyone says “Nobody wants to work anymore!” I always want to say, “Anymore? Nobody’s ever wanted to work. If people could just get paychecks and not work, the vast majority would definitely choose that over working. Congratulations on figuring out what everyone else has known since the invention of economics.”
That’s not entirely true. Work that’s fulfilling is something I want to do, and I would be willing to bet most people feel the same way.
Yes, but probably not as much as you work now, and definitely not overtime until burnout.
Is you got paid only for existing and you did something that now is called work, that “work” becomes something else: a hobby.
We all have hobbies but the vast majority of people don’t like to work.