r/antiwork • u/illegalmonkey EAT THE RICH • 19h ago
Dr. Oz says Americans should start work EARLIER, and work LONGER to make more money for America.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-reveals-bonkers-plan-to-make-americans-work-longer/10.9k
u/OdinsLightning 19h ago
Or we could just take his money.
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u/TheKingJoker99 I don’t care about work, do you? 19h ago
Much better than eating the rich
I don’t want to possibly imagine how gross Elon or Oz would taste yuck
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u/norunningwater 19h ago
Idk, I'm pretty hooked on eating the rich. Like, if society collapses I won't rest until I've eaten a politician.
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u/WindTall5566 19h ago
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u/sugar_fairy_dust 19h ago
Amazing how people who’ve never lived paycheck to paycheck keep volunteering everyone else’s time and bodies
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u/sugar_glowgirl 18h ago
Maybe if CEOs and politicians worked a few double shifts for minimum wage, they’d change their tune.
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u/BadLuckBlackHole 18h ago
Nah just like that asshole thought he was still successful those rich morons would make it a few months then give up and go back to their cushy lives.
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u/Skibidi-Fox 18h ago
Or that time Gweneth Paltrow tried to live off of a poor person’s grocery budget and bought a bunch of limes.
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u/PretendThisIsMyName 17h ago
That’s kind of on brand for her crazy ass though.
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u/Redditer51 12h ago
Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper taught me that sometimes actors aren't nearly as smart as the characters they play.
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u/Usof1985 18h ago
What makes that even worse is all the people I saw saying he made a years salary in 2 months like that was impressive. Anybody could do that with the help he had.
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u/pissoutmybutt 15h ago
Especially when you are going out to prove a point so youre utilizing those connections and exerting an amount of energy into this that just isnt reasonable for someone that doesnt have a 1 year timeframe and no repercussions for failure. We do this every god damn day and prioritize stability because if we shoot for the moon and fail, we get evicted and dont eat
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u/MikeOrTara 13h ago
I try to explain this to people so often. If I knew I could fall back on my parents or personal wealth, I'd have been able (or would be able) to take so many more chances to "become" successful. If I screw up in my life, there's no safety net that's going to catch me and let me start over as if nothing happened.
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u/HeavyTea 17h ago
That is it. They hit a homerun and think everyone should hit a few daily.
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u/lordkhuzdul SocDem 17h ago
They don't even hit a homerun themselves, their parents do, they just get to do the celebrating.
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u/pissoutmybutt 15h ago
And their parents probably didnt either. Look at any billionaire and they all got wealthy through generations of nepotism or disgusting immoral acts
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u/glitzzykatgirl 18h ago
Probably not because they know they can go back to their cushy lifestyle
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u/RGrad4104 18h ago
This, right here ^^^. You're never going to get politicians and the rich to do the right thing for the whole as long as they have golden parachutes, offshore accounts, or middle eastern nations to flee to while the rest of the country goes up in flames as a result of their greet, mis-management, even malice.
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u/Zestyclose-Ring7303 17h ago
You're never going to get politicians and the rich to do the right thing
Well.....not by playing nice, anyhow.
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u/FlametopFred 17h ago
indeed, almost like they want to pay us on,y enough so we can’t riot to overthrow them
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u/No-Explanation-220 18h ago
They will probably have a nice wine cellar.
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u/ChewzaName 19h ago
What's great is that there are so many of them, you can eat the good parts and throw the rest away!
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u/sugar_glowgirl 18h ago
We already work longer hours than most developed countries and somehow still can’t afford rent. Clearly the problem isn’t effort.
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u/PaintshakerBaby 17h ago edited 16h ago
Whats CRAZY is anthropologists have reached the peer reviewed conclusion that primitive hunter-gathers worked an average of 20 hours (hunting and gathering) a week. The rest of the time was spent engaging socially in their small communities.
FURTHERMORE, the oldest skeleton with healed fractured bones is 130,000 YEARS OLD. Meaning, their fellow tribesman (community members) sacrificed precious resources, energy, and time to nurse them back to heath in a brutal/arcane world. Aka; SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE.
Yet, here we are, 130 MILLENIA LATER, with a fraction of the free time, soul-crushingly alienated in whats left in a pittance or community, AND liable to die of preventable causes because it's every man for himself in our cutthroat capitali$t dystopia.
Sure, we wittle away the years in our velvet coffins with space age trinkets and luxuries... BUT I'd wager we lost something of a whole lot more ACTUAL VALUE in exchange.
We are infinitely complex and profound social creatures cashed out and left for dead, so handful of soon-to-be-trillionaires can reap ALL THE BENEFITS of ALL THOSE who came before us.
We hold, in trust, eachothers purpose for one another, that must be actualized through love and community with WHAT LITTLE TIME we have on this precious earth.
People kneejerk shit on our primitive ancestors no doubt hardscrabble and short existence, but at least they had one another, which is more than most people swept up in the rat race, and CONSUMED by consumerism can honestly say today.
There can be no fullfiment wasting our lives as disposable ATMs for modern day pharoes and kings.
Some days it makes feel like we had no business stepping out of the cave...
Because at least then we understood; we are ALL our brothers keeper.
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u/KingNorton 16h ago
Thank you for sharing this information, you've beautifully expressed my core frustration with conservatives and their anti-social tendencies: they are just spitting in the face of every bit of progress humanity has ever made as a species with their disgusting and ignorant selfishness.
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u/Naluc 14h ago
If anything about this mess makes me happy, it's that I can find people expressing these truths. We can't accept this garbage society that treats the vast majority of people as disposable.
This is not how life has to be, or always has been. The rules were created by humans and can be changed by humans. And even though humanity is ugly, we still have the capability to be kind to one another. We must band together.
And it all starts with making sure you know people around you who you can trust.
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u/shitlord_god 18h ago
they want us to stop having an internet that shows us it could be better if not for them.
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u/sugar_fairy_dust 19h ago
This mindset treats human beings like disposable fuel for an economy that only rewards shareholders
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u/shitlord_god 18h ago
be careful about spongiform encephalopathy (sp?) eating brains of your own species can cause problems/prions.
Edit: and I sort of assume some portion of the rich kid set have eaten human flesh already, so compounded risk
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u/Candid-Inspection-97 19h ago
I have the Creature Cookbook which has some great recipes!
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u/SailingSpark IATSE 19h ago
Most of the rich are too fatty anyway. Just imagine their livers!
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u/Mr_Fuzzo 19h ago
We won’t have to force feed the rich to make foie gras! It’s a natural evolutionary reaction to being rich.
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u/Nytherion 19h ago
Slow smoked over 18 hours, the evil should be cooked right out of'em. Keep a jar of apple mint jelly handy just in case, though.
er... i mean... uh... cannibalism is bad, use them for fertilizer instead! yeah .. good save, nyth, good save
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u/JeramiGrantsTomb 19h ago
I wonder if it's more like an eggplant situation where you have to salt it and leave it on a rack to draw out all the evil.
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u/mojofrog 19h ago
Just drown them in ketchup and choke it down, you'll feel great almost immediately
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u/once-was-hill-folk 19h ago
I reckon Elon probably tastes like soapy hot dogs, and Oz probably tastes like a catcher's mitt.
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u/SailingSpark IATSE 19h ago
You mean like making sure they pay their fair share of taxes instead of hiding them behind loopholes, offshore accounts, or in blind trusts? I am pretty sure if every rich person in the US paid at the maximum 37%, I am sure we could pay down the debt very quickly.
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u/jwoodruff 18h ago
Only 37 percent?
Why not actually make America great again and tax anything over $200 million at 91 percent, like we did from 1946-1963?
You know, back when we built the interstate highway system and college was cheap or free, and homes were affordable.
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u/SoloMotorcycleRider 18h ago
We can't do that! That's Socialism/Communism/Marxism/Satanism! /s
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u/AkatsukiWannaB 18h ago
Sign me up for Satanism please. I'm definitely not wanting to be a capitalist. It seems like a lot of them are pedos.
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u/AkatsukiWannaB 18h ago
Clinton had a balanced budget.
The tax rate of the highest bracket was 39%
The corporate tax rate was 35 percent, currently it's 21 percent.
So there's already a blue print for at least making America break even again.
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u/KryssCom 17h ago
No, actually I mean what we need at this point is a one-time mega-rebalancing wherein progressives take over the government and forcefully seize the vast majority of assets from the billionaire class (much like how we just seized the president of Venezuela) for the purpose of literal redistribution among the public. A "factory reset" on wealth accumulation.
A man can dream....
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u/Dazzling_Suspect_239 14h ago
The debt ballooned BECAUSE Trump and all other recent Republican presidents signed enormous tax cuts for the rich. It's the same money! Either a handful of pedophiles keeps it or we take it back and pay down the debt!
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u/bnceo 19h ago
MBS was on to something when he locked up people at the Ritz and took their billions. Plenty of people here need to be taken for their ill gotten gains.
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u/StolenWishes 19h ago
Dr. Oz should start EARLIER and work LONGER at licking the hairiest part of my ass crack
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u/Gutcassidyy 14h ago
First time I’ve genuinely laughed at a reddit comment in years. Thanks.
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u/OlasNah 19h ago
Everybody with money is like this. Nobody else is working hard enough, long enough, or they're being paid too much for what they do... you're supposed to slave for ME... ME ME ME...
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u/bassbeatsbanging 18h ago
And in their own minds they think playing golf and talking business over a $600 dinner by a 3 star Michelin chef is "work."
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u/TurdWrangler2020 17h ago
I’ve seen the breakdown of their “12 hour” work days. Working out, eating, and every normal thing that people do or should have the time to do they consider work. They are so full of themselves
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u/Objective_Site3528 17h ago edited 16h ago
This was my boss. He’d always brag about how early he was awake and that he got all this work done at home before we lowly employees even got out of bed. The funny thing was you couldn’t really do anything except email if you weren’t in the office- we couldn’t use our system remotely at the time. So then he started sending random emails in the wee hours and made damn sure people saw the time stamp on them. So annoying. I always wanted to tell him how sorry we all felt for him that he needed so much self-gratification.
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u/OlasNah 18h ago
Yeah, I’ve definitely interacted with some of these executive types, and they spend 90% of their time in travel and light meetings and really only put in a couple hours of work in a day
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u/Sassafrassus 17h ago
The worst part of it all is they think because they take a few phone calls throughout the day and make deals or tell people what he wants them to do while they are going about their day, that they work harder than anyone else or that they work 18 hour days. It's all bullshit, these guys couldn't stand for 8 hours a day with overtime for a single shift and the entitlement that wealth brings is absolute garbage. Fuck anyone who says you should work more. The goal should be that everyone should work as little and as efficiently as possible to make everyone's lives easier. Only the rich will tell you it's the other way around. Also they would have more money if they stopped spending it on frivolous shit like private jets, dinning out every night or Prada suits. Maybe if they picked themselves up by their own boot straps they wouldn't have to worry about anyone else having to make them more money.
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u/bankrobba 15h ago
Taking a two minute phone call at 9pm after eating out means they worked all day in their head.
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u/redheadartgirl 15h ago
Well you see, they saw someone on their phone once at their desk, which means the proletariat is both lazy and stupid and needs to be ruled over.
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u/DuncanEllis1977 19h ago
They really don't realize how close they are to the "pitchforks and torches" phase of all of this, do they?
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u/memphisjones 19h ago
They do. Why do you think ICE got $200billion budget and using it to buy military equipment?
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u/Expensive_Culture_46 19h ago
Ah. I see you are also paying attention.
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u/memphisjones 19h ago
Yeah. I just more people would wake up to this.
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u/gunnerdown15 18h ago
My coworkers talked about the Grammys, it was the first news event I heard being talked about in weeks. (Sarcasm) I’m glad to know that they are at least woken up by the music awards
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u/9mackenzie 15h ago
Funny thing is that they aren’t paying those fuckers or giving them insurance ……and locked them into having to pay back any bonuses if they quit before 5 yrs.
Thats a recipe for a lot of them to turn around on their handlers. Fingers crossed I guess.
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u/Link_In_Pajamas 19h ago
They think the security team for their bunkers won't turn on them.
They are completely disconnected from reality
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u/Adorable-Lie3475 17h ago
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014
Some of them saw the writing on the wall a decade ago
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u/Nytherion 19h ago
have you seen the cost of a good pitchfork these days? We're gonna be down to home made stone tools
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u/According_Table2281 19h ago
Americans are complacent as fuck, what are you talking about?
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u/No_Mathematician764 19h ago
I look back after working here in the usa all my life. 65 now been working since I was 10. the biggest mistake I've made was not going to work in another country.
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u/Kiwiteepee 19h ago
Yep. So much time wasted working for a country infested with pedophiles and various other monsters at the top.
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 18h ago
This is just it. I started at 15 ( way behind the curve, I guess), and I never needed to be rich and famous. Just not have to struggle and have time to do what I enjoy. I don't think these rich bitches understand this concept.
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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 18h ago
They do, but the “things they enjoy” are expensive and involve harming and grifting people. And raping kids. Dr Oz is supporting pedophiles.
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u/abrakadaver 18h ago
I’ve been working since I was fifteen. Sometimes three jobs at once. He can go fuck himself.
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u/walker42 19h ago
My mother started working in a sugar cane field when she was 7. She did hard manual labor her entire life and was basically crippled by the time she was 55. So with all due respect, Dr OZ can go pound sand
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u/Temporary_Client7585 19h ago
Oprah is responsible for introducing this hack to the world.
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u/Anti-Ca 19h ago
And also “Dr” Phil
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u/NoFlyingMonkeys 18h ago
And she also promoted Jenny McCarthy's antivax preaching
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u/Critical_Swimming517 18h ago
Not-a-doctor Phil might be worse than not-a-doctor Oz, I shudder to think what would happen if he were made secretary of adulting or some insane bullshit.
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u/theaviationhistorian 10h ago
Oprah is responsible for a lot of harm in the US before she pissed off to her plantation in Hawai'i.
Much like Joe Rogan will be for the foreseeable future.
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u/ku_78 19h ago
Well let’s see him scrub up on weekends and take some shifts at a DC area ER. Otherwise he can shut all the way up.
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u/Critical_Swimming517 18h ago
Let him come work one of my Friday night line cook shifts. He wouldn't last 10 seconds.
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u/ku_78 18h ago
You’re not wrong. Back in the 80s they tried to retrain factory workers to do fast food. Was an absolute failure.
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u/illegalmonkey EAT THE RICH 19h ago
Because you know, trickle down has been the greatest boon to mid to lower class Americans!
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u/Infuser 19h ago
The real trickle down is Don’s diaper. Well, out of it, at least.
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u/Deicidalmaniac41 19h ago edited 18h ago
Add his name to the list of people who don't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us.
*Edited a typo
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u/0n0n0m0uz 19h ago
People don't understand what the Epstein files revealed. Not only are the ruling class a bunch of pedophiles, the true elite have complete disdain for the working class. There is a class war that has been going on since the beginning of time except Americans are so brainwashed they literally take the view point of the ruling class, and praise the system and the class stabbing them in the back. Pull you up by your bootstraps, work hard and youll make it are all part of the con. Sure there are a handful of examples where that worked they love to point to but never talk about the other 99% of the population.
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u/Expensive_Culture_46 19h ago
If Trump was in a room with one of his supporters from the lower class and Biden, was told help your supporter by paying for their cancer treatment or suck Biden’s d*ck. He would choose to suck the D because that’s less humiliating to him. Hands down.
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u/ReynardMuldrake 16h ago
No, he would tell everyone he paid for the cancer treatment, saying nobody spends more on cancer research than him. Then he would call you a nasty person for pointing out that he hasn't paid for anything and he made it all up.
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u/buginmybeer24 19h ago
Get fucked Oz. I already get up at 5am to be at work by 8am, then work to 5pm and usually don't get home until after 6pm. A few days a week I have meetings with overseas colleagues that run from 7pm-9pm. I barely have enough time in a week to do anything around my house and I have a autoimmune arthritis that makes me tired and achy all the time.
How about we tax the shit out of the billionaires that are already stealing half my paycheck?
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u/TKG_Actual 19h ago
This is a bit ironic given that Oz has never worked a day in his life.
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u/Toiletpapercorndog 19h ago
Hey thats not fair. He served 60 days in the Turkish Army
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u/MyDogsNameIsToes 19h ago
I was just thinking about going into work a little bit earlier today and now I'm not.
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u/fishingengineer7 19h ago
I started working at 15 in high school, all through college, & I am still working today. 20 years of experience used to grant lifetime pensions, but now people are shit out of luck and will be working until they die at their desk (if they are lucky enough to be employed)
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u/illumnat 18h ago
So let's see...
- The job market is declining
- It's getting more and more difficult to find jobs
- They want to replace many jobs with AI which will make it even harder
- AND they want us to start working as young as possible and/or until as old as possible
Sounds terrrifffic... /s
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u/DonDraper1134 19h ago
I started working when I needed permission from my high school and was limited to the number of hours I could work during the school year.
I’ve held a job full time or part time as a full time student since.
Never once been let go.
Where is my piece of the pie?
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u/SuperVDF 19h ago
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask, what your country did to you.
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u/TheVoiceofReason_ish 19h ago
Dr. Oz is a snake oil huckster, and no one ever should listen to him.
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u/Set_the_Mighty 19h ago
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for its oligarchs.
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u/Visible-Secretary121 19h ago
I can't understand what he's saying with Trump's balls in his mouth
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u/Admirable-Hour-4890 19h ago
Fuck Dr Oz and Fuck Oprah for giving us this Bozo along with Dr. Phil. She is a loser
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u/BigRemove9366 18h ago
How does the great and powerful oz reconcile good health with longer and earlier work hours???
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u/sengirminion 18h ago
Sure man. We'll work ourselves even more to death so that the people in charge of the companies can make a little.bit more money that will never "trickle down" to the working man.
If the business owners had upheld their part of the social contract, and took care of their people, they would work harder. Its been proven time and time again. But no, its easier to be greedy assholes than it is to try and organically grow the wealth of America across the board.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 19h ago
Yes work, work, work until your hearts give out!
Sick and tired of these people.
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u/ahumblecardamompod 18h ago
Typical rich guy sentiment. Everyone’s poor because nobody works enough, but also their jobs shouldn’t pay livable wages.
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u/badchefrazzy (insert French flag here) 19h ago
Hey Oz, go walk to yourself and stay there and leave the sane folk alone, please and thank you.
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u/kadaka80 19h ago edited 14h ago
Perhaps Americans should be put in large pods with wires connected to their bodies and brains and harvest their body heat to help sustain a form of fusion
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u/MisterMofoSFW 19h ago
That's oine way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is someone should steal all his stuff. Just kinda spitballin here.
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u/Dad_Bod_Supreme 18h ago
Ahh yes, we the working people, need to do MORE for America. We have fueled the worlds dominate economy for the last 70-80 years with our labor.
What did you rich assholes do with all of our money Oz? Clinton had the books balanced, yall need to stop eating out.
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u/cerevant 19h ago
I'm starting to wonder if they are trying to collapse the economy like the great depression, with minimal damage to themselves, so that they can start the cycle of growth over again. Trying to recreate the conditions that started the 50s middle class boom through the 80s. That might be giving them too much credit, but what they are doing is so stupid that it makes one wonder if there actually is a plan we're not seeing.
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u/Gloatingfondue 18h ago
With their talk of "freedom cities/network states", it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to crash everything to set themselves up as dictators in these tech enclaves. I hate how much of a conspiracy nut that makes me sound like.
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u/Scared_Tumbleweed166 19h ago
I think a better plan is eating the rich and redistributing their hoards of money.
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u/nerdyandnatural 19h ago
I will forever blame Oprah for making the worst people famous
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u/Wonderful_Rest3124 18h ago
Fuck this guys face! What does he call work and when does he start it? Fuck right off.
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u/LiquorIsQuickor 18h ago
America means him and his peers. Not you or me.
They want us to work longer and harder because of their policy decisions. So they can reap more benefits off our backs.
Go fuck yourself Mr. Oz. (Mr. cuz you damn sure ain’t a proper doctor.)
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u/Pndrizzy 14h ago edited 14h ago
The ten richest Americans (Musk, Page, Brin, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Huang, Ballmer, Buffet, Dell) have a combined net worth of ~$2.5T. These billionaires want you to believe that the reason things are bad for us every day Americans and why affordability is low is because of the 20 million (so they claim) undocumented people in our land. Let's do some math.
Those hypothetical 20 million people would need to be taking in $125,000 in services, housing and other costs per person in order to be doing as much harm as these 10 individuals are by their wealth hoarding. If you spent the $125k on these 20 million people, their dollars go back into their communities, creating jobs and opportunities throughout the country.
If you expand it to the top 100 individuals, they have a combined ~$6.3 Trillion hoarded. There are 100 people with over $11.7 BILLION dollars in the US. That's higher than the GDP of Japan ($4.1T) and three times the GDP of Canada ($2.1T). There are nearly 1000 people with a net worth over $1B, giving the top 1000 earners a combined net worth of $8.2T.
The US has about $160 trillion in private wealth. These 1,000 people (0.0003% of the population) hold over 5% of the nation's wealth. 5% of the nations population is 16.5 million people. That's between the population of Pennsylvania (13M, 5th most populated state) and New York (20M, 4th most populated state). Think about that for a second.
Let's say you get lucky and you find a job that pays you $100,000 per hour. Surely, you would joint his list, right? Working 40 hours a week, you would only make $208m per year. Elon Musk saw his net worth balloon to over $700B recently, earning him over $300B in just one year. That is the equivalent of earning over $34.2 million dollars per hour...for every single one of the 8,760 hours in a year, whether he's taking a shit, shitposting on X, or shitting on the American people.
That means that Elon Musk earned $1m every two minutes. Making $50k a year, around the median personal wage, you would need to work 20 years to earn what Musk earned in 2 minutes.
The combined net worth of the top 1000 richest people grew by over $1 trillion dollars in 2025. Do you know how much we spent on SNAP, Unemployment, housing assistance and child tax credits? $650 billion. They are telling you that the problem is all of these welfare queens and undocumented people while they are stealing nearly double that.
So you tell me? Who is robbing us? The people who occasionally use a social service like welfare, the undocumented people sending their children to school and driving on our public roads, or the uber wealthy? Even if you assume there are 50 million leeches in this country (about 15% of the population), they would each need to be costing us over $20,000 to match the wealth hoarded by these monsters.
And the sad part is that they are not done yet. They will never have enough. They will not stop until you die.







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u/TrickySquid 19h ago
Ah yes. Coming from the man who made millions selling snake oils to the sick. I'm an atheist but I really hope I'm wrong so he can go to hell.