No one is forcing you to work

Some assholes think that it's very easy for every human being to just go out and find a new job. Just like that.

The main problem is that people who feel trapped don't have the financial stability to go without income for any period of time, which greatly limits the ability to find a new job.

I like "just start your own business!" I had a small business that did well enough that I was able to run it for 10 years and only stopped out of choice. I now have a relatively low-paying job with someone else and I am more financially secure now than I was during any of those 10 years.

Yet when the writer's guild and sag aftra went on strike they all decided to wait until people started losing their homes.

Ghouls. All of them

Come live in France.

You get a little bit of welfare, enough for rent and food. Highly recommended.

I kind of feel like both are true.

The threat of starvation and homelessness is a pretty strong coercion to keep working at all...

...but nobody's really stopping you from job-hunting if you really hate this particular job rather than the concept of having a job at all.

I'm not going to sit here and be like "just go back to school, get certifications, blah blah blah" because seriously fuck that. You and whose fuckin' Time Turner?

That said, even looking for a less-awful workplace doing the same thing you're already doing could be an improvement in your overall mental health and life situation. A small step, maybe, but I know from myself and people around me that it can be a step.

"If the pickings are slim, they'll appreciate what little they get."

A set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the members of a social group or that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.

Edit: this response was part of a chain, but I posted it when lemmy.world was having issues and I think my lemmy client couldn't find the comment it was responding to, so it just posted it at the top level, here's the chain for context: https://lemmy.world/comment/1973311

Capitalism is an ideology, you have a very weird relationship with definitions, first denying what scalping is and now denying what an ideology is. I don't know why you choose to live in a world where you just make up your own definitions, but it makes it harder to communicate.

Demand outstrips supply absolutely, and yeah if we built an infinite number of houses we'd have a fine supply, but also if we didn't have 16 million vacant homes we'd also have a fine supply. We currently have more vacant housing units than homeless people (by a factor of ~30), and capitalists are purposefully restricting supply to increase cost.

I don't know why you choose to live in a world where there is only one possible solution to the housing crisis. I've already said building more would obviously help supply, I don't know why you're so ideologically motivated that you can't admit that putting literally millions of housing units on the market would also help supply. You seem to have an inability to even consider that capitalism could have any problems. That's the epitome of an ideologue.

My stomach forces me. So does my pride. And my wife.

I'm addicted to healthcare

My stomach and bills force me too. In the mean time I will look for better jobs.

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I think they mean that particular job, not just any job.

I'm between billionaire CEO positions right now.

The difference is someone has to do the labor to stop you from being homeless and starving. So, either you will do labor that can compensate them- or you should do the labor to stop yourself from starving. Starvation is the natural state of humanity

Homelessness and starvation are still not “someone”. If we’re going to have this conversation, shouldn’t it start a little more honestly than this?

Well, the truth is that you could just go get a tent and live in a national park if you truly wanted to. You could build a houseboat and live on that. Or fuck off to the Alaskan wilderness. There are remote places you could live without having to pay any money.

This same logic could be used to argue that the government forced people to get the covid vaccine.

So make a self sustaining commune that lives up to your principles. I think you will find that to be more work than your average 9-5 however.

Agree, you can't just walk away from your only income.

But even with the challenges of life, you have to carve out time to apply to better jobs, or pursue education to elevate yourself (in anything meaningful, trades included). It sucks. Life isn't fair. But the only person who can plan a better future for you, and attempt to access it, is you.

And who threatens you with that? Yourself

Instead of dealing with the risk with the chance of being successful you just sink deeper as you drag yourself down the pit

Then use that to motivate yourself to gain a skill which will let you move up in the world.

Motivation isn't a bad thing FFS.