Unpaid Work in America: Why Employers Expect People to Work for Free
As the cost of living rises and the job market gets tougher, asking people to work for free feels less like an opportunity and more like exploitation.
At one point in time, volunteering was considered an act of kindness—a probation requirement for some. Now, it’s a way for employers to get out of paying their workers.
Promising someone a job if they do x, y, and z, only to never fulfill that promise, is highway robbery 101.
Everything is crashing in America. The job market, the housing market, and the stock market will soon.
What’s next?
The food industry is going downhill. Rent prices are through the roof. The last thing people need is some rich employer—someone who’s already rolling in the dough—to ask them to work for free.
It’s disrespectful.
It’s a slap in the face.
It’s immoral, and at this point in the crisis, very dangerous.
Imagine going through the tedious application process, three to four interviews, putting in work as a volunteer, and being let go when they no longer need your services because you were “underqualified.”
So, people meet all the requirements as volunteers but not as paid employees?
That’s BS.
I’ve scrolled through countless freelance positions that are ALWAYS open, and after reading through the overly long, dragged-out description, I always find out why that is.
I see through the veil.
Those long-ass job descriptions are purposely long and full of useless information because they’re preying on the desperate, hoping people will miss the “not a paid position” part in their dissertation of scouting free labor.
What’s even worse is that they try to spruce it up and tell you things like, “It’ll set you up for a better opportunity.”
SHUT UP.
You know what else would be a set-up for a better opportunity?
A paid opportunity.
Six million people are unemployed in the US. It’s actually more than that, but for the sake of the census police, we’ll leave it there….
Actually, no, we won’t.
They lie.
For many reasons, known and unknown, this country lies about a lot of things. I'm sure a lot of us can agree that money laundering is at the top of the list.
According to the census, there are 33.2 million businesses in America to date. 99.9% of them are reported as “small businesses.”
I might be jumping around a bit, but if small businesses rule the working class, why aren’t “small” people put in government positions?
Obviously, we know something the "higher-ups" don’t.
But that’s another topic for another day.
Volunteer… Yeah, right.
This ain’t the 70s, 80s, or the 90s.
You can’t go down to your local butcher and spend $40 on a box of meat that’ll last you a month.
$40 ain’t even enough to fill up the gas tank of a ’99 Toyota Camry.
Call me dramatic, but the proof is in the pudding that we can barely afford to enjoy anymore.
Maybe we should volunteer to stop participating in this pyramid scheme we call life.
Maybe we should volunteer to tell the people demanding we pay such-and-such just to live, to go to hell.
Maybe we should volunteer to only pay what we can afford, or pay what we used to pay before the New World Order went into effect.
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