Anti sweatshop movement Puns

A couple weeks ago during a department meeting, a coworker of mine asked about the vacant position in our department and if they’ve found any good candidates. The position has been open for over two months. My boss let everyone know that they are having trouble getting applicants. She added that it’s because people are wanting to work remote and are avoiding places not offering such.

I made a comment about the great resignation and lots of companies are having the same difficulties. She said “people are quitting their jobs for these full time remote positions and it’s really just an entitlement problem”. Without missing a beat, I said “welp, guess you can call me entitled then”. She looked stunned and tried to back peddle a little.

I have a few interviews lined up in the next week and I fantasize about the day I can quit.

If you've been paying attention to the health and wellness community, then you've no doubt run into 'anti-diet' sentiment. Buzzwords like 'diet culture' and 'intuitive eating' are seeking to upend the decades of fad diets that we've all encountered and many of us have tried. I just wanted to write out some thoughts I've been having about this movement. I'm not sure who this post is for, but maybe I'll find some likeminded people out there.

The Anti-Diet Movement and Intuitive Eating are the far end of a pendulum swing:

We have been burned by fad diets. Many of us have tried them and failed to lose anything, or gained it all back with increased disordered eating. We're tired of feeling like bad people for struggling with our weight. But does this mean that all attempts at fat loss are in vain? Will we always gain weight back? Is our set point doomed to always increase or stay the same? NO!

What the Anti-Diet Movement does is define itself against intentional weightloss. It would not exist without an antithesis. But how many of us are trying the cabbage soup diet or juice cleanes these days? Can we all agree to leave those things in the past?

The reason I believe the Anti-Diet Movement is merely a pendulum swing in the opposite direction of our fad dieting past, is because there are some glaring scientific errors being spouted by the most staunch proponents of this movement. Namely, the fact that weight does not correspond to health.

Yes, we know overweight people can be 'healthier' than thin people. We know there are many factors that influence heath and many are not visually evident. We should all agree that healthy habits are a good target for everyone, regardless of size and that intentional weight loss should not be the goal for everyone. But how can you tell an audience of morbidly obese people that their weight is not what's causing their health issues? That it's just how society treats them that is causing their knee pain and high blood pressure and inability to walk properly? That's where it falls apart for me.

Some of us have successfully lost weight and kept it off. Many of us, actually. I encourage anyone reading this to keep striving for their health goals. Do not let the "Anti-Diet Movement" convince you that fat loss is futile or that you will never achieve your goals. This movement is just one end of a pendulum swing. Find a balanced way of eating somewhere between "Don't Try" and "Eat 1000 Calories a Day."

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This is going to be a bit of a rant, and for context on my experience/bias, I have a bachelors in economics and masters in urban planning, and my field of study is housing quality and affordability. I’ll try my best in this post to not be political.

Multiple times Dr. K has mentioned that the reason for anti-work’s existence is we’re moving towards a society where people do not need to work, and people are rebelling against archaic employment practices like 40 hour work weeks. I think that’s touching on the problem but not getting to the root of the issue for most people.

To start, I think the anti-work movement is poorly named. Sure there are plenty of people who don’t want to work. But I think most people are in it not because they hate work, but they’re tired of feeling exploited. They’re tired of working full time and still not being able to meet their basic needs.

Dr. K has mentioned that he thinks we’re moving towards a society where we’ll have a UBI. That may be true, but I think we’re still so far away from making that a reality that we shouldn’t talk about it like it already exists. For instance, I live in the southern US and when the federal government offered my state FREE MONEY to expand the Medicaid cap, our officials turned away the money. How are we supposed to have a UBI when states are blocking free benefits and we can’t even get the minimum wage above $7.25/hr?

His arguments that people will sit around all day consuming entertainment are only valid if you have someone else supporting you, i.e. if you live at home with your parents. That’s a reality for about half of our society, but the other half do not have such a safety net. Cost of living is increasing and things like homeownership are falling further out of reach. The housing stock is routinely being bought up by corporate interests looking to profit off of rent, further blocking families from having the opportunity to own a home.

I live in a city that is routinely on lists of “most affordable cities in America,” where there is a high vacancy rate for housing. Yet more than half of renters are cost burdened, paying more than 30% of their income in rent. Someone working full time earning minimum wage would need rent to be $377 to be affordable, which is laughable. Meanwhile, the median rent in my poverty-stricken city is now around $900; a person would need to earn between $17-18 an hour for affordability, an income largely unheard of around here. I get the antiwork frustration—w

I have posted here a few times as I encourage this movement and love the stance that everyone is taking on their livelihoods.

I am a mid 30s CPA who is a Controller and makes good money to support my family.

I have recently been contacted NOT by recruiters but by HR depts of companies asking if I am looking for a new role as they have a Controller position open.

Mostly I’m not interested but I’ll hear them out. When I ask about base comp range I’m shocked to learn they don’t want to say and put it back on me by saying “what do you think this role would pay?” or “let me know first what it would take to make you move”.

This is most likely because their budget is too low and previous people that they have approached have given them sky high numbers they have shot down.

I pretty much laugh at them and say this isn’t how it works. If you don’t have a range in mind then you’re unprepared to be looking for my services.

I’m sure most of these HR people are bootstrapped by a disgruntled CEO/ CFO trying to get someone quality for cheap. Ain’t happening.

Love this movement y’all!

Yes some people are happy being curvy, etc., and they don’t believe in dieting, and that’s fine. But unless it’s some BS weight loss pill or tea, or some ridiculous fad where you’re only eating boiled chicken for six weeks, “diet culture” is not inherently toxic. Even yo-yo dieting is better than endlessly gaining weight and never trying to course-correct. So if you lost the weight and gained it back, it was not a failure. You probably learned how to eat better, and you proved to yourself that you’re mentally strong enough to do it. Which means you can do it again and you’re never stuck on your current path.

EDIT: To clarify, I’m seeing people say “love your body exactly the way it is right now” and I agree, you shouldn’t be cruel to yourself. But trying to lose weight is not always a bad thing and sometimes that’s the message that’s coming across.

EDIT 2: Diets are not useless. I know dozens of people who were very overweight, lost the excess weight through dieting, and sustained it through healthier eating and portion control. The diet was the kickstarter to a healthier life.

I got asked to make this a post, and I think it’s a good idea. There’s a lot of misinformation going around right now. Most of it is probably intentional.

Anyways, Going to keep this simple for my fellow smooth brains. The short and simple explanation for the price movement is options and shorts. Here’s how you could do what we are seeing if you had large amounts of money.

In our example stock ABC is at 200 before earnings. Theoretically, there are an equal number of puts and calls on opposite sides of that 200. That’s your option chain. Think of it as a ball sitting atop a 2 dimensional mountain. It’s at the peak, and all it takes is a gust of wind to push the ball one way or the other allowing gravity to then take hold.

Step 1) short the stock out of the gate in AH and PM, and drive the price down 10%. This was the gust of wind that sent the ball in motion. What this does, is it gets the stock away from its delta neutral zone and into a delta negative zone. We can call that 180.

Step 2) once delta negative, the puts take over because there are very few calls that were purchased at or around 180, and A LOT of puts that were purchased. This is gravity. The puts are the gravity pulling the ball down the mountain at a consistent rate. This was set up prior to the earnings call. With little to no calls deep in the money, there is no force to operate opposite the gravity.

Sub note: what does a put do? The buyer of a put has the right but not the obligation to sell 100 shares at the strike. The seller on the 	other hand has the obligation 	to buy. Why does this matter? Because that is where we are seeing the sell side volume. As more and 	more puts go ITM, sellers of the puts (MM) sell the shares to remain delta neutral, because the assumption is they are going to have 	to buy a lot of shares through these puts. 

Step 3) short it more and get it further into the delta negative, allowing even more gravity to take effect.

Step 4) buy deep ITM puts when you run out of shorts to force MMs to sell more shares

Conclusion: this is a reverse gamma ramp. If you look at the option chain, you will see that there are literally no calls near or ITM at this moment. That’s because the IV is so high and the delta is moving so fast, call options are extremely risky and far too expensive. There are a few possible outcomes to this. The most likely outcome is that the buyers of the puts get to expiration and don’t exercise (because they never had shares to sell in

I have a theory, hear me out . While I believe the primary goal of the anti choice movement is to satisfy men's envy of the ability to give birth, and subjugate women, I believe for republican politicians and their donors it is motivated just as much by a capitalist push for forced birth to prevent a cheap labor shortage.

Look at what race is most affected by abortion restrictions - black women. Black women were forced into pregnancy often by rape in order to generate more slaves to own and sell. The same places that are most radical about anti choice are the places most sympathietic to the confederacy - the jim crow states. Now, consider the push at this moment to slash abortion rights. The republicans usually make their attempts to cut abortion just before an election to activate the far right voters. This summer was a bit early to get the best return on fundraising for 2022. What has happened right at this point to motivate such an obviously organized, aggressive push in these states to do it this summer?

Two words: labor shortage.

The right wing megadonors are panicking about the labor shortage, and with birthrates in historic decline, there's a possibility of it becoming permanent in the next generation. I read today that fertility has declined by HALF in the last decade, and the childfree choice (or financial inevitably) had gained momentum at a steep rate even before the pandemic. Now it's doubled due to pandemic. The birth rate is no longer population sustainable as of this year (less than 2 per household). Given the shortage of labor right now, think what would happened in 16 years - may be way worse, and more permanent.

Keep in mind the corporate class only cares about economic issues - they care about literally nothing else. Nazi, liberal, centrist, they don't care. Whatever keeps their portfolio numbers rising. They choose which psychopathic social issues to invest in based on their pocket. It's like the Koch think tanks funding for CRT discourse. With CRT, it's Koch's attempt to stop the rising race/class solidarity and acceptance of progressivism/socialism among the youth. With abortion, it's to force birth for cheap labor and to put women in a situation of economic desperation where chances of collective bargaining is less likely.

What do you think?

Edit: relevant articles -

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/economy/2021/10/25/texas-declining-birth-rate-could-slow-economic-growth-bring-future-labor-shortages/

https://www.f

Those of us who participate in the global political discourse are well acquainted with NED and its notorious regime change antics, yet how many of us see through the other ploys?

I've emphatically stated that our Achilles heel is the need to seek Western approval and this is why we inadvertently cause our own downfall.

Recently I've been notified of an upcoming "Chinese American" movie which is meant to deal with our "racism" towards Black people. Upon first glance of the trailer, I can already see where this cinematic "journey" is supposed to lead - we are meant to pay for HALF of the racism tab of America. Naturally this movie is spun with the lofty rhetoric of us dealing with our "inner demons" rather than Western INDOCTRINATION in owning our thoughts and our right to NOT be scape goated. If you cannot see this, you are in for a rude awakening.

http://asianstraightshooter.com/2021/12/kenny-leu-a-shot-through-the-wall-or-through-the-brain/

I was over on r/ABoringDystopia and was reading the following article.

One thread was going into prison labor and how factories are using prison labor at pennies on the dollar and I hadn't really thought of that or knew about that. I understood community service being working "for free" to help better the community and to amend for the crimes you committed. But I had no idea they "hire" prisoners to work at private companies doing labor for less than minimum wage.

Hire is quoted because it doesn't feel like hire to me but more like "we are going to pay you just so we can SAY we pay you and keep morality off our back. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/req92e/candle_factory_inmates_dead_guard/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Edit: I love the support, the passion, the perspectives, and the references that have sprung up here everyone. Thank you!

The reimbursement rates paid to therapists for fee for service therapy in NYS (the direction Medicaid has moved in after selling our public health care to managed care private entities) is now $30.00 per 50 minutes and $24.00 for 1/2 hour.

Fee For Service means that the responsibility for all benefits: health care, dental, SSI, workman's comp, etc are pushed ono the worker, reducing their wages significantly if we look at the increase in their costs of living due to making them responsible for what the employer was responsible for. Additionally, the paperwork and documentation burden has run amok and is now taking so much time that this work must continue outside of billable hours and is creating a system where the worker is not being paid for their work time.

This is greatly reducing care for the low income citizens, growing in number as the defunding of the social safety net and the increase in educational costs, inflation of goods and housing, etc are being allowed to run rampant.

Additionally, even with off loading the benefits and tax burden on the employee the reimbursement rates for non-profits have created a system of being in the red no matter how many clients these clinics take on and no matter how much they increase therapist case loads. Some therapists havev 100 clients and still the agency cannot afford to keep these clinics open.

This is wonderful for managed care - well thought out to restrict care and pocket our tax dollars we pay to medicaid. They will still be paid contracts to take on more and more medicaid recipient dollars, but won't have the burden of access to care.

Workers burn out quickly in this system, resulting in green therapist getting their hours and then justly leaving this system for better pastures. Yet, these new private platforms are starting to replicate this medicaid defunding system into their reimbursement rates as well. These platforms, prey on those leaving the system, giving slightly higher and still unlivable wage reimbursements for independent contracting.

In my city we are at a point where more and more clinics are having to close and move their clients to larger conglomerates that can shift money from other areas of their organizations to make up for the defunding. But that too will only last so long before these huge conglomerates cannot afford it either.

The only fight is the union and work stoppage fight and sabotage of their ability to get $$. The anti-work and the union movemen

How do we win the majority?

I feel like most Americans vote along social issues rather than economic policy. if we created a populist movement centered around left-wing economic policy while co-opting societal and cultural values that the right aspires to we can rally overwhelming public support.

Rural Americans need to be won over. I'm not really sure how we do that as some aspects of their culture and values are incompatible with human decency (Racism, homophobia, etc.) but I feel like abandoning the anti-gun stance is good step in the direction of bringing more rural Americans on board with socialist ideology.

Another value we share with rural folk is our distaste for corruption in government. Many libertarians also hate citizens united, and recognize how government can be manipulated and used to pick winners and losers in the economy- they just don't put 2 and 2 together when it comes to the wealthy being the ones doing that manipulating. They almost blame the tool over the user of that tool.

We can take their fears and redirect them at the actual root cause, which in many cases is capitalism, we just have to brand it the right way to get the message across.

Thoughts?

Was wondering (definitely not asking for it) seeing the protests in the West. Is it because the west got more "first world problems" to worry about or movements is seen mostly in liberal societies?

This statement is brought up every time I have a debate with misogynists about women fighting for their rights ‘but many women were anti feminists and that only rich white upper class women wanted voting rights’ (insert derogatory remarks about these women)

This is a time when /r/antiwork has exploded in popularity and pundits are talking about big adjustments in the labor market. What are your hot takes?

I'm not saying people shouldn't, I'm just surprised it is possible. I'm not from the US but what I've learned from the internet is that especially low wage workers live paycheck to paycheck, in rented homes and have credit card debt. So do people accumulate more credit card debt in order to do this or do they just move on to a different job? Is there a limit on how much credit card debt you can have? If the limit is high then why do I see posts of people living paycheck to paycheck who lose their job and say they will be homeless in a couple of weeks? If the amount of debt that can be accumulated is so high then becoming homeless is a very unlikely scenario?

Not passing judgment on anyone and I support the anti-work movement but I can't make sence of how things are in the US since I'm not from the US.

I think there were much less fireworks this year in my city than last year, none in my neighborhood and all the fireworks I saw in the distance all ended 2 minutes after midnight.

Our super recently sent an email requesting we don't celebrate any religious holidays with our students (a request I felt was perfectly acceptable), but many teachers and our community FREAKED OUT. The news article is gathering anti-equity comments faster than I can read them.

On top of that, racism is becoming more open amongst our students and our admin has actively discouraged teachers from teaching about racism, so the only place our kids are learning about racism is from the internet and each other (and those of us who happen to be around when kids say that shit.) Teachers have asked repeatedly for support around tackling this issue, but it just turns into a carefully orchestrated item far down on the staff meeting agenda.

I'm in a rural part of a pretty liberal state, and we moved here because we thought we would be safe from this shit. Fingers crossed I can find my way into a more diverse district next year 🤞