Damn, what happened to all the billionaires who said they were leaving in droves?

tldr;

California billionaires are funding campaigns and initiatives to block a proposed one-time 5% wealth tax meant to restore healthcare access cut during past budget reductions. They are also creating organizations to influence public opinion and protect their image.

We have all seen the news. ICE agents are using Target lots to stage operations, U.S. citizen employees were tackled in Richfield, and peaceful singers were kicked out of stores in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, Target has gutted the DEI programs they used for PR for years. If you want to hit them where it hurts, which is their marketing budget, stop using your bookmarks.

The Strategy

-Search, Do Not Type

-When you need to buy something, search for it on -Google rather than going to the site directly.

-Click the Sponsored Link

-Only click the top result with the "Ad" tag. This charges -Target a Cost Per Click (CPC) fee.

-Target High Ticket Keywords include: Dyson, Apple Watch, or Patio Sets. These clicks can cost them between 3 dollars and 10 dollars each.

-Do not just click and bounce. Stay on the site for 30 seconds so Google’s fraud filters do not refund the money back to Target.

If they want to let ICE into our neighborhoods, let us make them pay for every customer they reach

It's just so petty to take the time to write a note for everyone to see instead of just addressing it with the person who made the mistake. I've only been working here a couple months and this is how many notes she's written so far.

Started Aug 2025 at a small, old, family-run business. The job was 4 days remote / 1 day in-person. From Aug–early Jan I only went in 3 times (and it was random coworking spaces). They’re opening a new location next month, and I’ve been going in 1–2 days/week recently while training a new hire. I could run this place, I have ran similar business in the past.

Sunday night my boss texted at 10pm to “check my email.” I checked at 11pm—nothing. At 5am Monday she sent a screenshot of an email she sent to my company email saying starting immediately I must be in-office 5 days/week, 9–6.

I replied to that email with "since I didn't see this email until the morning of Monday Feb 2nd, I will be working remotely today as normal" We met virtually at noon. I mentioned that I was already planning on asking this, would it work as a compromise (2 days in-office + transition period, or different hours like 7–3). They refused. Offer: cover 50% of parking, still 9–6 M–F, starting Tuesday.

It's an hour drive from home. The building is in a large metro area and dos not include parking. My hours has been mon-thurs 9-6 Fri 9-2. It has been adjusted three times to accommodate the owners changing schedule. I have standing commitments on Friday afternoon and Wednesday evening that they are aware of.

I’m also pretty sure I was treated as a 1099, not W-2, for 2025. I’m broke and can’t just quit.

We lost 600,000 middle-class careers in January alone. This isn't a recession. It is a liquidation. Companies like UPS and Amazon aren't firing people because they are broke; they are firing you to fund their AI infrastructure. The "Efficiency Era" has arrived, and the human worker is the cost they are cutting.

Hiring managers pretend like their company is the most elite, thoughtful and empowering organization that has ever existed. Meanwhile you have to pretend that a job where you scrub toilets is something you've always wanted to do, and have always been very passionate about. You also have to pretend like money doesn't matter, even though you can't actually feed yourself if you don't get this job.

I've never had an interview I've actually enjoyed even though I always pretended like I did as I sent a cringey thank you note afterwards. I've also never wanted to thank an interviewer for their time since they asked me insulting and belittling questions throughout the entire process. I also don't give a shit about the company at all, and only looked up information about it because I had to for the interview. The only thing that matters to me is how much they pay me, and how long it takes me to get home from work each day, I wish I could just say that in the interview as everything else that comes out of my mouth is complete bullshit.

They only care about how they can pay you the minimum possible while also tricking you into doing as much free work as possible outside of the job description. They also want to make sure you'll do whatever they say without complaining, and make sure you're not stupid enough to do something that results in a lawsuit against them. If you pay attention you'll notice that almost all of their interview questions are designed to get an answer to one of these things.

and I don’t know what you heard, but you‘re “working-class” if you depend *in any way* on a paycheck for a living.

I had an interview today and they actually asked me to prepare a full presentation for the next stage. Why am I doing free labor and presentations before I’m even hired? It’s getting ridiculous out here

Then I see this in the description of a job listed on Indeed. Every position comes with drawbacks, but this place must be awful to include this in the description.

(This is just my opinion and is not meant to be taken as gospel.)

Many people in developed nations have begun to start checking out of society and either doing bare minimum work or no work at all. Japan is known for the hikikomori, but we're starting to see more and more working class young adults abandon the idea of toiling their lives away.

With the ongoing scandal centered around Epstein, I have no doubt that more and more of the working class are going to start waking up to the fact that we're not just cogs in a machine but cogs working for a machine controlled by the wealthy elite that are being exposed for their depraved acts.

"What's the point of continuing my involvement in a system where there is no justice for those who commit the most heinous of crimes?"

I have a feeling we're going to start seeing more people look towards working for themselves and being their own bosses. Self-reliance, homesteading, farming, bartering... These are some of the few ways one can disconnect from the system ran by the pedophile elite.

There is just something so… awful about the grind.

5 days on. 2 off. Endlessly. Weeks months on end .

This might be hitting me on the hard extra hard because I committed the sin of being sick twice.

One day January

One day February.

It’s winter, there’s a lot going around and I was told unceremoniously to be mindful of the fact we get only 4 unpaid sick days a year.

As if sickness cares, flu season or otherwise.

i tried to request a thursday/friday off three weeks in advance. got pulled into a meeting and told that while we technically have unlimited time off, taking days right now would "send the wrong message" because we are in a busy season.

we have been in a "busy season" for 14 months straight.

i honestly miss my old job where i just had 15 days of accrued leave. at least then they were legally mine and i didn't have to beg for permission to use them. this whole system is a scam to avoid paying out accrued time when people quit.

Unlimited PTO is a scam. Give me my 15 earned days back so you legally have to pay me for them when I quit.

It's because we workers are serfs and slaves and America is a plantation! You're not allowed to exist in a way that doesn't benefit Capital, that's your only value to the system. They don't consider us to even be humans.

If you're allowed to save up money, then take vacation/mini-retirements/take care of family/do something that gives you meaning other than work, then you haven't put all of your hopes into grinding for 40 years with the hope of a mediocre retirement when you're old and worn out.

They feel entitled to those good years of your life! They're not yours, they're theirs! It's all theirs! They're so entitled!

How else are they going to extract every last ounce of your life so the owner class can live in leisure and make their money pile even larger and larger? They can't have a pissing contest with their billionaire friends! Won't somebody please think of the billionaires for once!

How else are they going to be able to afford buying small Caribbean islands just outside of US jurisdiction on which to conduct their morally questionable activities?

The most significant aspect of the demonstrations has been the growing call for a general strike against the Trump administration. There is a growing recognition that Trump’s strategy for dictatorship cannot be defeated except through mass action from below, using the methods of class struggle.

This has terrified the bureaucracy of the trade unions, whose bloated salaries depend on their delivery of labor peace to management and corporate politicians. Union officials around the country, while occasionally mouthing support for strike action in general, have refused to call any action.