Capitalists in the restaurant industry have gotten very, very rich off a business model based on the ruthless exploitation of workers.

Is it any wonder now, after all the abuses that took place over the course of the pandemic, that workers prefer to find jobs elsewhere?

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We need a new society.

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even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity.

We need to... imperative necessity. Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality, there's no denying it. Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

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That's R-D-W-O-L-OLFf.com professor wolf welcome back thank you glad to be here thank you

for joining once again this is an article in the wall street journal about restaurant workers

while they're in high demand right now because a lot of them don't want to come back to work

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