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Poor Pay and Conditions for Workers in Australia

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Paul1404,
Your silliness is simply not letting up. I'm not dirty on the Public Service, I'm utterly dismayed at the symbiosis of incompetence & corruption of far too many Public Servants.
You're obviously one of them judging by your desperate attempts to draw attention away from them !
My investment over 52 years in the Old age Pension is paying off now. No complaints there from me !
Posted by individual, Saturday, 13 February 2021 2:30:44 PM
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Things will only get worse for workers. The tech oligarchs expect the growing influence of technically educated people to “destroy artificial inequalities” while “highlighting” the natural inequalities of the working class and the middle class. They regard themselves as being more deserving of their wealth and power than the proles. “Digital feudalism” will see most people ‘commodified’. The modern feudal overlords see themselves as enlightened people, constructing a prosperous society, but with strict supervision of the masses.

As for what the media (e.g The Guardian, and even The Australian now), a 2019 Rand report in the US shows journalism is steadily moving away from a fact-based model to one dominated by opinion. The entertainment media has also become a bastion of left-wing orthodoxy.

And, make no mistake: it is the Left behind all the problems that are starting to plague workers and the middle class that they used to champion.
Posted by ttbn, Saturday, 13 February 2021 3:06:52 PM
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Universities are in on the act, too.

Pitirim Sorikin, ‘The Crisis of Our Age’, 1992, observed in tertiary education “a frantic eagerness to know more and more about less and less”. They seemed determined to narrow the field of enquiry to obscure topics of little interest outside the universities. Academic life has grown sterile and irrelevant to most people, even as an academic degree has become more important than ever for chances of work.

Once champions of free thought and enquiry, universities have become more like a medieval model, with increasing attacks on ‘heretics’ (anyone not towing the Marxist ‘progressive’ line).

In ‘Rise of Fascism’, FL Carsten writes that the mission of universities is now to beat in a particular set of beliefs rather than to teach. He found their zeal for this reminiscent of the patterns in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. In 2018, James Barrett described university lecturers as activists, resembling “Bible-thumping” preachers rather than open-minded intellectuals.

The work/pay problems, and most of all our problems are, and will be, the fault of the so-called progressive Left and their nasty ideology. And all this zero emissions by 2050 means that there will be very few jobs outside of China anyway.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 14 February 2021 8:21:36 AM
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Labor's latest policy is a typical turd from the unions.

While on the face of it it sounds fair, but the fixed hours, pay based on time, overtime, leave etc is simply designed to destroy the gig economy.

Having destroyed most manufacturing jobs, the unions are disappearing and need to destroy the competition.

The flexibility of the gig economy benefits not only the businesses but the students and workers that are keen to earn a few bucks after school or their full-time jobs. While there are those that are exploited, this sledgehammer approach is the standard idiotic response from the left whingers.
Posted by shadowminister, Sunday, 14 February 2021 9:10:53 AM
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More important on the job scene is the 650,000 jobs predicted to disappear thanks to Morrison's Labor-like zero emissions by 2050 bullshite. It was this sort of nonsense that lost Labor the last election, but they can now say that the difference between the two policies is negligible. Big advantage for Morrison gone - the smirk could be on the other side of his face after the 2022 election.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 14 February 2021 8:00:10 PM
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I find myself agreeing with pretty much everyone, except Paul, of course.
Paul you are so wrong, I don't need to add anything more, I think the guys have nailed it perfectly, even to the point of knocking you for a six.
Why you insist on trying to bankrupt Australia and Australians, escapes me.
Why can't you see that the more you expect to get paid, the more YOU have to pay, so in the end, you end up getting less for the same money.
Have you not learned anything over the many years you have lived.
And if one more moron mentions the words "Net Zero", well I'm saying it here as Graham might be having a bad day.
Suffice to say, that the words Net Zero are PC at it's best.
It's supposed to give the plebs the idea that it means NO emissions.
Well it's another GW CC lie.
What it really means is that someone is going to pay someone else that has planted some trees, to buy their "carbon credits", which are intangible, you can't touch them, or see them, or even smell them, it is just another money fleecing scam or con.
The guy who is buying these carbon credits, has done absolutely NOTHING to reduce his carbon output.
According to these govt and moronic experts, the business is now carbon neutral because the trees that were planted are sucking up the carbon he emits, and he just carries on as he always has.
Why do you think, they don't say, ZERO EMISSIONS?
Because it's NOT POSSIBLE, or another way of putting it; IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
If the brainiacs of this world have not yet figured out this whole thing is a scam, Heaven help us!
Posted by ALTRAV, Sunday, 14 February 2021 11:16:40 PM
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