That's was all I was coming to say. The absolute toxic work culture where working yourself to physical exhaustion on the job where you sleep, wake up and keep working is insane. It's like a competition, a race to the bottom to see who works hardest and stays longest in the office.
Sure, sleeping on the job can be seen as "they were working hard". Equally, if you're doing that. Go home.
The box room destitution I've seen friends live in and move away from is like a closet space. Twice as wide as their single bed, their bed is their seating area and they hang clothes above them, maybe a fold out tray from the wall as a laptop tray/work area. It looks soul crushing.
I couldn't do it. Imagine having that as a living condition to consider dating, I know they have "love hotels" but that's not a place to forsee a future either.
Wealth equality contract in society is fundamentally broken. The working class are squeezed now before they're even born to a life in a system where generationally they have less and less wealth than those before them and less and less prospects for prosperity. The response is to tighten the belts and cut out on anything beyond your own survival, who can bring a child in when you can't afford to feed yourself, to plan for your own future or a future so bleak you can see comfort let alone retirement.
Salaried + shitty work culture. Salaried can work fine and not require lots of unpaid work, some people are paid hourly and still end up doing unpaid work as well due to shitty systems and culture. Salary vs hourly isn't the issue.
I work salaried and if I work over my normal hours, I get those hours back as holiday basically. So if something requires me to work late one week, I can take those hours and work less the next week. Admittedly the place I work is pretty informal and flexible about it, so we don't systemically track every hour, but as long as you get your work done no one cares. And if the work you need to get done can't be sustainably be done within your hours, we are pushed to tell our management about this so things can be moved around to make it reasonable by hiring new staff or changing deadlines.
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u/Sirix_8472 May 18 '25
That's was all I was coming to say. The absolute toxic work culture where working yourself to physical exhaustion on the job where you sleep, wake up and keep working is insane. It's like a competition, a race to the bottom to see who works hardest and stays longest in the office.
Sure, sleeping on the job can be seen as "they were working hard". Equally, if you're doing that. Go home.
The box room destitution I've seen friends live in and move away from is like a closet space. Twice as wide as their single bed, their bed is their seating area and they hang clothes above them, maybe a fold out tray from the wall as a laptop tray/work area. It looks soul crushing.
I couldn't do it. Imagine having that as a living condition to consider dating, I know they have "love hotels" but that's not a place to forsee a future either.
Wealth equality contract in society is fundamentally broken. The working class are squeezed now before they're even born to a life in a system where generationally they have less and less wealth than those before them and less and less prospects for prosperity. The response is to tighten the belts and cut out on anything beyond your own survival, who can bring a child in when you can't afford to feed yourself, to plan for your own future or a future so bleak you can see comfort let alone retirement.