For everyone
who is being overworked and underpaid
“because it’s your passion”
who has ever needed to work several jobs
or do several jobs in one workplace for the pay of only one employee
whose futures are left uncertain
since your salary isn’t enough for good healthcare or housing
since your company doesn’t give decent benefits
or doesn’t offer security of tenure
—just perpetual contractualization
who has become depressed
either from over-exhaustion
or working a menial job
or both
and—worse—required to just take care of yourself or ignore it
For everyone
who has been fooled into thinking that hard work will get you places
when your toil has only profited bosses and executives who get to go home early and live it up
while you work overtime for little to no incentives
whose education allowed you to explore your potential
when your jobs, in contrast, ended up being some cruel anti-climax
whose been led to believe that you’re responsible for your own success
so your “failure” makes you feel that it’s your fault
when the system is actually rigged against you
who knows how they’re exploited
but have been led to believe
that “that’s just how things are”
who has been fed false empowerment
when you’re disempowered where it counts
For everyone—every worker
who has been exploited by the capitalist system
who has ever dreamed that another world is possible
and is becoming woke
to struggle for true freedom and equality
Happy Labor Day
who is being overworked and underpaid
“because it’s your passion”
who has ever needed to work several jobs
or do several jobs in one workplace for the pay of only one employee
whose futures are left uncertain
since your salary isn’t enough for good healthcare or housing
since your company doesn’t give decent benefits
or doesn’t offer security of tenure
—just perpetual contractualization
who has become depressed
either from over-exhaustion
or working a menial job
or both
and—worse—required to just take care of yourself or ignore it
For everyone
who has been fooled into thinking that hard work will get you places
when your toil has only profited bosses and executives who get to go home early and live it up
while you work overtime for little to no incentives
whose education allowed you to explore your potential
when your jobs, in contrast, ended up being some cruel anti-climax
whose been led to believe that you’re responsible for your own success
so your “failure” makes you feel that it’s your fault
when the system is actually rigged against you
who knows how they’re exploited
but have been led to believe
that “that’s just how things are”
who has been fed false empowerment
when you’re disempowered where it counts
For everyone—every worker
who has been exploited by the capitalist system
who has ever dreamed that another world is possible
and is becoming woke
to struggle for true freedom and equality
Happy Labor Day
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