It’s being called the “negative salary”: Due to austerity measures in Greece, it’s being reported that up to 64,000 Greeks will go without pay this month, and some will have to pay for having a job. Numbers in austerity reports have usually reflected figures in the millions, since they reflect industry-wide cuts (i.e. a 537-million euro cut to health and pension funds). And plans of cutting minimum wage by up to 32% is all but a given in the country. Today’s “negative salary” deal—which could have government employees returning funds— reveals the real human impact of the austerity measures.
This is the kind of scary dystopian shit that fills my nightmares: the job itself is a commodity that one must pay for, and the worker must pay for the privilege of being employed.
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Something like this has happened before in the U.S.
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Why are capitalists only okay from stealing money from working people? Why do teachers have to pay up but not Greek...
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…………. Jesus, don’t let the GOP learn about this—they’ll try to make it law in the US.
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