Posts tagged exploitation
WORK & CAPITALISM | "Overdoing"

Humanity wasn't destined to toil

We welcome Sami Main this week as our guest preacher. Sami's an accomplished life coach, media specialist and published author. In this sermon, Sami explains why our fixation on busyness, work and profession can be harmful to our spiritual health and that taking a step back to rest and to reflect on the glory of existence is not only healthy, but, perhaps even, the most important activity we can do.

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WORK & CAPITALISM | "Bosses"

Dealing with tyranny in the workplace

Sarah Ngu starts off our "Work and Capitalism" Series with a deep dive into the power of "bosses" in organizations.

The workplace in general is structurally set up as a tyranny where one person has the power to greatly determine the economic livelihood of another, and if you have a good boss, that’s nice but you’re lucky because that’s basically the equivalent of a benevolent dictatorship. The only leverage that workers have is that we have power in numbers, and so we can organize collectively together for fair wages, fair hours, otherwise known as a union.

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