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Just saw this chilling report by @alex of @dair describing Amazon's wage theft and surveillance of its workers:

https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

Sounds exactly like the reverse centaurs that @pluralistic warned us about, such as here:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/

"The Trump administration has targeted a federal office that oversees a $300 million family planning program for layoffs, raising fears that it is effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women, according to three people with knowledge of the events."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-birth-control-layoffs.html

The CDC "cannot protect all of us in the U.S. if they continue to have staff and resource cuts," former Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry said. "When you look at what was eliminated and still eliminated, it's concerning for how the agency is going to function."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cuts-former-officials-not-prepared-daily-public-health-emergencies/

"Today, many experts, including myself, are concerned that we are no longer well prepared for the next big outbreak or disaster because of the Trump administration's continued erosion of our nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies," he added.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/117943

“CDC has worked directly with Congress for decades to help constituents by providing data, expertise and insight when needed. These firings mean Congress no longer has a means of direct access to the agency it funds when it needs information or briefings,” said John Brooks, who most recently served as the chief medical officer of the division of HIV Prevention before he retired from the agency last year.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5555773-trump-cdc-layoffs-impact/

"In North Carolina, more than 48 percent of nurses said they witnessed violence at work, while more than 27 percent of respondents to a 2022 survey from the North Carolina Nurses Association reported they were victims of it themselves — and 'the problem is getting worse,' according to a news release from the association."

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/14/health-care-workplace-violence-trend-impacting-nurses/

begins of to pressure in government

The White House budget office said Friday that of federal workers have started to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing govt .

dir , posted on social media that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force firings.


https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-federal-worker-firings-0439e8d0979d9a32e021c5c851fea1cf?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-10-Breaking+News

APROPOS OF EVERYTHING

MIT created the mathematical proof we are living in a protracted waged by the parasitic capitalist classes.

Living Wage Calculator
https://livingwage.mit.edu/

❝ We developed the Living Wage Calculator to… estimate the local wage rate that a full-time worker requires to cover the costs of their family’s basic needs where they live…❞

in Manhattan, a living wage should be $33/hour.

the purpose of a capitalist is to keep us in debt & poverty

for Manhattan, table of LIVING WAGE (LW) vs POVERTY WAGE (PW) vs MINIMUM WAGE (MW) : with 0 Children - LW $32.85 - PW $7.52 - MW $15.50 with 1 Child: - LW $55.38 - PW $10.17 - MW $15.50
a table of the base minimum annually expenses for people without children and up to 3 kids. it includes food, housing, internet, health care, etc. i’ll focus on the required annual income, AFTER TAXES, needed to live in NYC. this presumes the worker is exposed to the vagaries of housing without rent-control pricing: 0 Children - $56,138 1 Child - $95,156 2 Children - $117,239 3 Children - $145,871