Capitalist hierarchy and work place oppression

Capitalist Hierarchy:
The Capitalist hierarchy under the capitalist society can be summed up simply as a parasite feeding off his victim. Capitalists in the capitalist society are some of the wealthiest individuals who own the means of production, supplying them to businesses they own, in order to turn a profit by using workers to their benefit. Labor creates all value, and the value of production is heavily undercutted in order to separated profit from wage, in fact there is a reason profits are so high while wage is so low, it's devaluing the value of labor to where wage does not match, leaving the rest to the profit of the capitalist. Labor is entitled to all it creates, the labor of the workers is the valuable source of what keeps the world running, and their labor deserves to be respected. However the capitalist does not do this, for respecting the workers labor involves lowering profits to benefit the workers, which the capitalists greedy intentions will not do. The capitalist holding his position of boss is exactly the representation of a parasite, for the labor production of the boss is none-existent, leaving his only source of income to devaluing the value of labor, paying wages that don't equal labor value, and reaping the rest in the name of “profit.”

Work Place Oppression:

On the 40 hour work week, new studies show that 40% of the work week is spent actually working, while the rest of the time is wasted usually on pointless meetings or sitting idle till clock out. However, it use to be worse, where workers only had Sunday off, only to attend church. Labor unions soon fought to get more days off, which when won, the work hours slowly decreased more and more as the years carried on. However, they made a slow increase back in the 1980's, and today they have even exceeded the 40 hour work week, to where a study that the Washington Post reported on, said most workers work 46 to 47 hours, and others say they work more than that. In fact, one study found that full-time workers usually work a total of 60 hours, that being 12 hours from Monday to Friday, or shorter weekends where most of the weekend is spent working.

On the subject of internship, there is the great myth that interns work hard and gain skills. This is lies, most interns in America work almost as much as secretaries or full time workers. Interns are a way for capitalists to exploit young people for free labor.

The Department of Labor says the only times a internship is legal, is:

• The internship is to benefit the intern, not the company
• The internship is not a tryout for a job at the end
• The intern does not replace other workers
• The internship is genuinely educational

Most internships in American businesses are breaking these rules.

People try to argue that internships make you more employable, when a recent study shows that unpaid interns are just as employable as individuals who have never did an internship.

Illegal internships aren't the only thing businesses are doing, there is also illegal hiring of freelancers.

A business my be working a freelancer illegally if:

• They impose time and weeks for the freelancer to work
• Disallow the freelancer from another job
• Require job specific training
• Treat the freelancer like staff

Nearly 1 in 3 workers in American businesses are freelancers or temp. Businesses hire freelancers because they're cheap, keeping them from benefits they're entitled to, cutting back in wages and taxes, having the business profits go up significantly.

What also needs to be talked about is the wage theft that happens daily in America. Both the wage theft of working off the clock, and the wage theft of corrupt pay negotiations. Businesses have promoted the lie that saying how much you make is illegal, it's not, and honestly telling how much you make can help you in your favor. From years of lies we made it a taboo in our culture to speak about what we make. Promoting how much we make can help us, because if we don't know what our colleagues make, we could be getting ripped of from being unaware what the going rate for the company is. Promoting how much you make, tips pay negotiations in the workers favor.

Most information provided thanks to “Adam Ruins Everything”