Neoliberal think tanks tout part-time employment as a great boon to humanity:
A thinktank, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), which has organised the event with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, argues that if everyone worked fewer hours – say, 20 or so a week – there would be more jobs to go round, employees could spend more time with their families and energy-hungry excess consumption would be curbed. Anna Coote, of NEF, said: “There’s a great disequilibrium between people who have got too much paid work, and those who have got too little or none.”
Got it? The reason why so much people can’t get a full-time job and have to get by on a patchwork of temp jobs with zero benefits is because a benevolent neoliberal authority decided they will be better off this way. Of course, nobody at the think tank in question is likely to accept part-time employment any time soon. These valiant folks are sacrificing themselves, working full-time, getting great salaries, and consuming like crazy so that we don’t have to do it. Oh, the rich person’s burden, how heavy art thou!
Remember, people, whenever you hear anybody use the expression “job sharing”, run away as fast as you can. It’s part of the infamous “sharing economy” which translates as “a scam aimed at robbing you of medical care, pension, paid vacation, and any kind of worker rights whatsoever.”
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