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I used to think differently about service jobs for years as I wasn’t one of those “if it isn’t blue collar it isnt a real job” socialist nut heads, but my feelings for that idea has shifted towards it for different reasons.

I dont think a socialist movement is possible of servitude and service work is allowed to continue. It took ages to illegalize slavery and yet there is more of it than ever—mainly through the never ending flood of terrorist and kidnapping groups that make eradicating the problem fucking impossible without eradicating kidnapping.
Service work doesn’t fair much better as it is only barely above servitude and slavery in terms of dignity but falls back to that status if public services are ever bought out and stolen by private actors.
Outside of being undignified, these jobs just flat out and do not have to exist in a socialist society. They’re just bad jobs period and it would be better for everyone if they went away. No one really needs a consultant, housekeeper, motivator, receptionist, gig workers, restaurant service workers, or whatever other petty job that a person—a normal person—can do themselves without guidance.
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>>695
Have you never been to a buffet?

>>701
Never been to one that actively tries sucking off the hosts as much as the ones in North America do. Normally you just book a seat and the staff fuck off and let you feast with your friends. The better ones in other countries like japan and Vietnam just have people come in through drive throughs or use self serving machines to just grab their meals and let the chefs and cleaners involved in something that even resembles productive work have some semblance of actual dignity and privacy.

>>700
>>700
I'm specifically talking about the American model of restauranting where the whole idea is the experience of it. What is the experience? The experience is being served by another person. The experience is having another person below you in the hierarchy during that temporary moment. It's not really about the food. It's not really about anything more than the ambiance of being served. Having someone below you, and why might that be? There are obviously other models for eateries, but American restaurant culture is particularly evil to me.

>>703
Maybe I’m stupid and fat and American but it has always been about the food and drink to me, and that’s also true of most people. Karens are in a very small but vocal minority, hell if you’re going to a soul food or Caribbean restaurant, the ones with worse service actually have better tasting food a lot of the time. I’m not saying what you describe isn’t real but it’s marginal.

>>676

One thing you should note is that things like transportation, construction, healthcare, etc. are considered services in national account statistics.



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I won't lie I forgot this board exists for stuff like this.
Hi landlord problems guy here again.
They threatened to take us to court again, not in a "Do this or else" way but in a "We will soon." way. They did at first but now they said they'll do it.
We've been gradually paying off debts as agreed as a additional fee on top of regular rent, we paid rent on time, as far as we're concerned we've done nothing illegal, if anything they might be like someone else said.
Only question left now is do we ask for why they're taking this to court or do we just wait for a legal summons to court. Some of us are confident they won't as they have no ground to stand on, I less so, the bourgeoisie and especially property management are the exact type to drag things to court over the smallest things.
NY State law by the way, last I checked they can't evict over unpaid debts especially if they're already being paid in a constant stream as objectively the debt is gradually being paid. They're literally just mad they aren't getting money back fast enough.
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>>482
Thanks for the help anon. We have for the record, been regularly paying this off so again I'm not even sure if they have ground to stand, but I have no doubt they can be stupid enough to try anyway.
There's also the problem that they might just not renew the contract but at least then we'll have months to plan where to go instead of only 14 days. That housing delay tip will come in handy.

>>483
A lot of landlords rely on summary judgement. You don't show up to contest them in court, and so the judge rules in their favor even if their suit is groundless.

>>481
Ok well it gets a bit harder if u just skipped paying. BUT do not pay the landleech because in most states theres a requirement for the landleech to find another tenant within 2 months of you moving out. So if youre not living there, the most youd be on the hook for is that anyways (check your state laws).

The best defense though is to claim you were withholding the rent because the leech didnt perform the necessary repairs or that the apartment was uninhabitable due to conditions.

If you have to plant some roaches or some shit and take pictures as proof. If you had already sent emails from before along a similar line youd have a pretty good case.

Dont worry about showing up to court because even if they got a judgment against you, most leeches give up trying to collect it anyways as its a whole another process.

just to put in perspective, I dodged 15k$+ of rent and because the landleech couldnt find me, he couldnt serve me and just gave up. That was over 5 years ago so now its out of the statute of limitations anyways.

Welp their attorneys just sent a letter. We didn't accept and sign for it or are going to pick it up. We'll wait for the official court summons.
So we still don't know why they're suing.
Anyway they'll probably just refuse to renew the lease regardless so… lol.

>>485
Also the problem is that to counter sue over repairs is giving landlords the time to fix this while withholding.



 

How do I find the job in my field if I have been out of college for years and have no relevant experience? I would like something in a public or non-profit sector, where I could do social science research or data analytics. But like I dont think I have much of a chance of getting hired into entry level position if they could take a fresh collage graduate with intership experience. Is there anything I can do? I cant bear being stuck in dead end nightmare I am at now.
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>>629
Well, guess the idea was if folks knew what was inside then it wouldn't particularly benefit my resume which is already pretty technical and certified but has a dire lack of real world experience, and a huge gap in it. Sorry for distracting from OPs question by being ugh.

>>621
data analytics is cooked because of all the retards who made day in the life tiktok vids about it. there are no jobs left and its oversaturated, do something else

I want to learn some basic data skills but have no foundation.

I've seen things like The Wizard Book, Rust, LISP, R-something (used a lot in science?), Python (apparently old now and there's something newer Paul Cockshott uses?)…

I just want to be able to bash things together to prove points on the fly.

But I did Arts as a degree and theatre through school so I'm cooked ;_;

>>637
This would make me p. sad if it was true.

>>647
>I want to learn some basic data skills but have no foundation.
Half the stuff you listed is for programming (and good fun if you're up for it) more than for data analytics. The tools used in data analysis are SAS, Tableau, PowerBI, or Excel (pick one), R, or Python (pick one), and SQL. The basic foundational skill is some introductory statistics.

>bash things together to prove points on the fly.

The problem would probably be getting data for this. You might be better off just learning stats to make inferences from scientific articles.

>>647
Just learn Excel or LibreOffice Calc.



 

A thread for resources on organizing.
>Guides
>Practical Tips for irl
>Old classics & newer stuff
Personal experience also very cool
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Yeah, but this thread is ideally more specific and focused.

Anyway, add 'em if you got them.


the body was too short or empty the body was too short or empty the body was too short or empty
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>>635
>Schizo imageboard users don't represent the program

Anons always say this yet I see the same sentiments again and again even unprompted. And they're called out on it they get upset.

>They're aren't dummies but they are misguided. Skepticism of the world as it is doesn't produce clarity, it produces paralysis. When carried out to its conclusion it collapses into mysticism. Scientific socialism isn’t a belief system, it’s a method rooted in dialectics: a reflection of the world in motion, rich with contradiction and continuous development.


This is could be applied to rationalize believing in God as a personal mandate. It can also be used to rationalize capitalism and classical liberalism.

>>636
>This is could be applied to rationalize believing in God as a personal mandate.
How? There is a world independent of human thought. That world is composed of material reality, which exists whether or not individuals believe in it. "God," on the other hand, would only exist in that person’s mind. This framework can't be used to rationalize God as a personal mandate because God is an abstraction that doesn’t directly engage with the material world or its contradictions. Dialectical materialism, by its nature, begins with material reality, not abstract concepts. Religion may emerge from material contradictions—like alienation and oppression—but it doesn’t produce the kind of tangible, historical change that dialectical materialism analyzes.Similarly, neither God, liberalism, nor capitalism can be rationalized through dialectics as eternal truths. Liberalism and capitalism emerged from specific material conditions, and while they have shaped historical development, they are not immutable. Dialectical materialism offers a method for understanding the material world and the historical process, not a belief in unchanging abstract principles.

>>638
There is still much about physics we don't know about
We only just began discovery of the subatomic realm. And political/economic systems aren't even agreed upon by their mere definition.

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>>639
It’s true that there’s still much we don’t know about the subatomic world. But that uncertainty doesn’t disprove dialectical materialism. The real question isn’t whether science uncovers new phenomena—it’s whether those discoveries materially affect human productive activity and social relations.Take Carbon-14: its radioactive decay had no bearing on human life for most of history. It only became socially relevant once humans discovered it and integrated it into scientific labor—radiocarbon dating. It crossed from the natural domain into the social.Subatomic and quantum physics may eventually follow suit—quantum computing, for example, could restructure parts of our economy. But until such breakthroughs shape production, they remain at a level of existence detached from daily life. Dialectical materialism deals with the mutual development of humans and nature, mediated through labor—not abstract metaphysics.The claim that political and economic systems aren’t “agreed upon by definition” misses the point. Social systems aren’t sustained by philosophical consensus; they persist because humans build, participate in, and transform them through material activity. Whether or not we define them the same way, they exist—and we live in their consequences.

>>632
>I was looking more for suggestions outside of the legal field since the laws are different here
Ah, then just use IWW material to start with. It's easy, free, accessible, and plain language.



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Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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I dont know how ppl are affording rents rn. Everything is 2k min and I def do not have enough wages for this shit. Death to all landleeches

>>461
This. And unfortunatley, Gen Z are now accused of being lazy leeches because they refuse to move out of their parents house with all the high rent prices and working zero prospect jobs

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>>618
real

>>618
Misleading.



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fellow burgers I need some toptier tax dodge tips. I dont want to pay the american empire, how can I dodge taxes like bezos on a small scale.

So far I see theres some roth ira credit which im going to take, i can deduct selfemployment part of taxes, going to max education credits. I donno how far I can go without being audited, but id rather pay a lawyer 10k to deal with it than give us empire money
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BROS WE ALL GOOD, GOMRADE TRUMP GONNA LAY OFF 40K CLASS TRAITORS

I brought my tax bill down from 14k to 2k. thats what im talkin bout

>>479
Do you have a link to the full video?

>>576
This will just make everyone's wages drop by 20% or more.

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Thread for being a based cheap piece of shit. Share your hottest penny pinching tips, anticonsumerist bias, environmentally dubious upcycling, or any number of ways you get dirty looks for saving every dollar you earn.
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Also get a bidet instead of wiping your ass with just tp. all you need the tp for is to dry up after

>>593
lord is a good cheap cheap brand
i have a lord l6

We use the bones, like those from our rotisserie chicken, to make little dolls, utensils, and decorations.
This saves us on purchasing commercially manufactured products, which are not only more expensive, and worse for the environment, but also of an inferior quality.
Always remember a curse gained, is a curse saved.

>>587
Saving money benefits all classes.

If you're into audio you can get insane deals from retards replacing their good speakers with shitty soundbars.



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What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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>>569
>customer rewards program.
Think you might be avoiding an investment metaphor.

>hardship, people tend to gain more regressive habits and bad affect.

This tends to be true, there is the painfully labeled "post-traumatic growth" though in some (parts of) cases.

>pain and suffering is glorified as virtue.

>"you're young so you didn't suffer much so you don't appreciate or understand".
There is a pride in having worked hard, according to this ideology. The argument would be the reason am unmotivated to work is because haven't experienced this pride. This pride seems to me to be a symptom. Inherent in its function is a sort of non-knowing of what it is.

>>573
>There is a pride in having worked hard, according to this ideology. The argument would be the reason am unmotivated to work is because haven't experienced this pride. This pride seems to me to be a symptom. Inherent in its function is a sort of non-knowing of what it is.

Hard work is not the same as "pain and suffering"

>>600
>Hard work is not the same as "pain and suffering"
Have been hopeful might get some zen from work, just relax and listen to music or books on tape. But at the same time feeling like >>567 at least as a joke.

>>567
This is probably just more psycho stuff. Should probably just ignore.

>>478
>The brain seems to be wired where rewards like this just don't motivate. Being motivated solely by necessity seems like it be just a dreadful, slavish, existence, but it doesn't work for me anyway.

Listen to George Carlin's take on motivation.
He says motivation is troublesome because the people who have it are usually up to no good.

>The people who are motivated are the ones causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, religiopolitical conservatives? These people are highly motivated!



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How the fuck are you supposed to apply for an academy for a profession where they already require you to have prior knowledge and skill for it when you want to fucking learn it? I want to study to become a 2D animator and the requirements literally require me to make a fucking short film even though I have not been taught how to before. And I cannot find any private tutoring for 2D animation so I can actually prepare to apply.
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>>547
>there's people that love doing bluecollar jobs not just for money but as a hobby.
Here about these, and it is hard to imagine.
Often it's someone who pursued a life long passion and then economized it.
"Always wanted to be a cop." etc.
So it still serves the framework of >>538.

>>559
They aren't extracting surplus value, so they don't exactly seem petit-bourgeois, and besides there have historically been many socialists artists and writers.

>>562
>Here about these, and it is hard to imagine. Often it's someone who pursued a life long passion and then economized it. "Always wanted to be a cop." etc.

Coos are not blue collar.
Alot of them are either jocks, delinquents or idealists (starting out). But they're not paid a glamourous wage.

Also, there's volunteer cops

>>563
He means in terms of contributing to welfare of society either through civil engineering or farming or something

>>570
Silly.



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how does one go about getting a job as a carnie? a traveling fair person? a worker who works at one of these? I had a one night stand (well two night) with a chick who did this, so i know it's still a viable thing

how to vaudvillemaxx in 2025?
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>>515
how to get carnie poon, tell us ur secrets bro

Humblebrag thread.

You could invest in a ride and truck it to festivals, otherwise you need connections because I imagine they're petty bourgeois so they wouldn't really hire random people off the street unless they were desperate, maybe you could just try go to a carnival an talk to some carnies

was she hot tho?

lol if youre going to be a petit bourgeois at least get a job that pays well

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