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Got some new insights in the planned reform in our unemployment benefit system that will be implemented soon and it is shit. It is truly made by people who have no clue whatsoever of how it works. But in the end thousands of people will lose benefits and that’s what counts to them. Keeping us under their thumb.
What surprises me more is how little resistance it gets. Same with retirement funds reform. Like, wake up guys. This is affecting YOU. YOU are closer to unemployment than you think. And then it’s too late. YOUR retirement money is being taken away as we speak. YOU have to work longer. All the while billions will go to the defence industry annually.
The passiveness of it all is infuriating.
It’s sad, but the same thing happened in Brazil. What made the retirement reform win there was basically the lack of resistance of the organized left (since Dilma had been ousted and Lula was in prison), lack of politization of this matter by the same organized left, and the big politization on the right side of the politics (austerity and free market discourse was in a height).
I think the (actual) left needs to do a better job in doing agitprop work in social networks (including places like Lemmy), to improve politization in the matter, and then turning that politization into mobilization. It’s hard to move around when you feel that you are alone, and you feel that the minimal thing you still have (your job) can be taken from you.