All i can think ( if it were true) is ‘why should they’? With such a shittyy economy they wont be able to pay rent- never mind buy a house. There is no booming economy to grow in and develop their skillset, to pay for food to fill their bellies, savings for emergencies and soon to be no NHS, just more bills and work till you die.
“Millionaire tells people working full time that can’t afford to live and feed their families to stop being lazy”
As a septuagenarian worth about £18million, maybe Joanna Lumley has lost perspective on the economic situation of most younger people? Either way, probably best for her to sit this one out.
That only works if you dont need money to live, which unfortunately is the case for almost everyone
I’m sure she got where she is by doing unpaid work… /s
I guess getting old makes you a miserable, gullible old bastard when the papers get involved, no matter who you are
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Oh, thanks for your input Joanna, how about you fuck right off?
If I were young and was guaranteed a place to live, food to feed myself and my family, and all the health care I needed, I would gladly work for free.
Sadly that isn’t the world we live in thanks to capitalism. In this reality if you don’t get paid to work, you don’t get to pay rent/mortgage, buy food, go to dentist etc.
I used to adore her but it turns out Joanna Lumley is a twat.
Joanna Lumley’s brain is like a shit ideas factory. It was her who came up with that fucking stupid garden bridge idea for the Thames that cost the tax payer 40 million quid. She can fucking do one.
Hey landlord can I pay my rent with good will? Because Joanne Lumley seems to think so.
It’s not about fucking humility. I’m very happy to work unpaid, I do charity work quite regularly.
I just don’t consider a multinational corporation that decides not to pay its interns out of greed to be a charitable cause worth my time.
I’m so bored of rich old people telling poor young people that they should work their fingers to the bone for no money. Fuck off.
Lady born into a life of privilege speaks shite, best to ignore the ignorant twat.
It was a bit easier to crack the entertainment industry in the 1960s than it is now isn’t it? These days you have to practically be manor born.
And the generation before yours were working down the pits at 14. Times change I’m afraid.
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“Why should I wait after hours and do the unpaid work?’”
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Why should I use my valuable time and work extra hours for free for some mush who would fire me as soon as it became profitable to do so.
It’s always rich people in the media who don’t have real jobs telling everyone we’re not working hard enough.
None of this is going to stop until we decide we’ve had enough of capitalism. The entire system is rich people who don’t work squeezing every last drop of productivity out of the workforce while keeping wages as low as possible.
Old woman worth £18 million tells people struggling to afford food that they should work for free and be happy about it.
“Millionaire complains that people aren’t willing to work unless the work gives them to means to eat, says things weren’t any easier back in her day and that they were all just braver, despite things definitely being easier financially back in her day.”
The headline should read “Rich old bint thinks poor people should continue to enrich her and her rich friends for free”
A close lifetime friend of Boris. Just check out their garden bridge project which was eventually cancelled at great cost.
Just like Boris, she expects handouts.
>“Things weren’t any easier then, but we did have a sense that you could have a crack at anything, whereas now we seem to put people into boxes very early on.”
I worked for free for 3 years, 2 years at Citizens Advice and 1 year as a Covid Volunteer at my hospital.
Still can’t get a job with a First Class Degree.
Why should I work for free. You aren’t entitled to my labour
Nobody works for free you daft old fuck. Get back in your fucking ivory tower and shut the fuck up
How to say you support slavery without saying you support slavery.
What a nasty person.
I love joanna. but I assume at no point her life was she ever skint or had a shortage of free times.
Joanna Lumley is a classic whinging boomer talking about how everything was wonderful in her generation and how all the faults of today are simply because the young aren’t tough enough. Not long ago she was saying something like young women should just be more “tough” when dealing with sexual harassment implying it should be ignored rather than dealt with. She went to add “The new fashion is to be a victim, a victim of something,” and that “it’s pathetic. We have gone mad.” She’s also said in another interview that everyone should stop jumping on the “mental illness bandwagon” and to “just get a grip”.
She’s very much fallen into the right wing media ecosystem after her work supporting the Gurkhas and as a result her opinions are getting more and more stupid as she tells them what they want to hear.
No one should work for free, I understand if someone chooses to volunteer for a charity or youth group etc and this is on top of their paid job.
There are loads of reasons people choose to do this element of it.
But giving a corporate entity free labour, yer get ta fuck.
I know living conditions were far more basic in her youth but was the risk of homelessness while in paid employment a thing then?
Upper middle class twat that has never had to do a real days work in her life needs to stfu.
“We hung on in there, took some very humble jobs.”
Did we? What humble jobs did you do, Joanna? Spend much time down the mines?
If employers or companies actually considered unpaid work or volunteering as real experience I might consider it. But having worked unpaid as a volunteer for years before covid, I can say employers don’t care that you can work your ass off unpaid, and volunteer work just makes you less likely to be considered for paid or subsidised training programmes.
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All i can think ( if it were true) is ‘why should they’? With such a shittyy economy they wont be able to pay rent- never mind buy a house. There is no booming economy to grow in and develop their skillset, to pay for food to fill their bellies, savings for emergencies and soon to be no NHS, just more bills and work till you die.
“Millionaire tells people working full time that can’t afford to live and feed their families to stop being lazy”
As a septuagenarian worth about £18million, maybe Joanna Lumley has lost perspective on the economic situation of most younger people? Either way, probably best for her to sit this one out.
That only works if you dont need money to live, which unfortunately is the case for almost everyone
I’m sure she got where she is by doing unpaid work… /s
I guess getting old makes you a miserable, gullible old bastard when the papers get involved, no matter who you are
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Oh, thanks for your input Joanna, how about you fuck right off?
If I were young and was guaranteed a place to live, food to feed myself and my family, and all the health care I needed, I would gladly work for free.
Sadly that isn’t the world we live in thanks to capitalism. In this reality if you don’t get paid to work, you don’t get to pay rent/mortgage, buy food, go to dentist etc.
I used to adore her but it turns out Joanna Lumley is a twat.
Joanna Lumley’s brain is like a shit ideas factory. It was her who came up with that fucking stupid garden bridge idea for the Thames that cost the tax payer 40 million quid. She can fucking do one.
Hey landlord can I pay my rent with good will? Because Joanne Lumley seems to think so.
It’s not about fucking humility. I’m very happy to work unpaid, I do charity work quite regularly.
I just don’t consider a multinational corporation that decides not to pay its interns out of greed to be a charitable cause worth my time.
I’m so bored of rich old people telling poor young people that they should work their fingers to the bone for no money. Fuck off.
Lady born into a life of privilege speaks shite, best to ignore the ignorant twat.
It was a bit easier to crack the entertainment industry in the 1960s than it is now isn’t it? These days you have to practically be manor born.
And the generation before yours were working down the pits at 14. Times change I’m afraid.
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“Why should I wait after hours and do the unpaid work?’”
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​
Why should I use my valuable time and work extra hours for free for some mush who would fire me as soon as it became profitable to do so.
It’s always rich people in the media who don’t have real jobs telling everyone we’re not working hard enough.
None of this is going to stop until we decide we’ve had enough of capitalism. The entire system is rich people who don’t work squeezing every last drop of productivity out of the workforce while keeping wages as low as possible.
Old woman worth £18 million tells people struggling to afford food that they should work for free and be happy about it.
“Millionaire complains that people aren’t willing to work unless the work gives them to means to eat, says things weren’t any easier back in her day and that they were all just braver, despite things definitely being easier financially back in her day.”
The headline should read “Rich old bint thinks poor people should continue to enrich her and her rich friends for free”
A close lifetime friend of Boris. Just check out their garden bridge project which was eventually cancelled at great cost.
Just like Boris, she expects handouts.
>“Things weren’t any easier then, but we did have a sense that you could have a crack at anything, whereas now we seem to put people into boxes very early on.”
That’s just not true. Take [this post](https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/ilbw7j/british_youth_1970_vs_2020/) for example: in 1970 the average house price was 3.4x the average salary, and in 2020 it was 9.7x. Or just look at the [effects of inflation](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/19/why-are-uk-food-prices-up-by-19-and-which-foods-are-worst-affected) at the moment: prices rising 25% in two years, food inflation at 19%. It’s a simple fact that in many ways the economic conditions of young people now are materially worse than in her day, and it’s infuriating that so many older people refuse to accept that, preferring instead to assume it’s their own fault for not wanting to work.
I worked for free for 3 years, 2 years at Citizens Advice and 1 year as a Covid Volunteer at my hospital.
Still can’t get a job with a First Class Degree.
Why should I work for free. You aren’t entitled to my labour
Nobody works for free you daft old fuck. Get back in your fucking ivory tower and shut the fuck up
How to say you support slavery without saying you support slavery.
What a nasty person.
I love joanna. but I assume at no point her life was she ever skint or had a shortage of free times.
Joanna Lumley is a classic whinging boomer talking about how everything was wonderful in her generation and how all the faults of today are simply because the young aren’t tough enough. Not long ago she was saying something like young women should just be more “tough” when dealing with sexual harassment implying it should be ignored rather than dealt with. She went to add “The new fashion is to be a victim, a victim of something,” and that “it’s pathetic. We have gone mad.” She’s also said in another interview that everyone should stop jumping on the “mental illness bandwagon” and to “just get a grip”.
She’s very much fallen into the right wing media ecosystem after her work supporting the Gurkhas and as a result her opinions are getting more and more stupid as she tells them what they want to hear.
No one should work for free, I understand if someone chooses to volunteer for a charity or youth group etc and this is on top of their paid job.
There are loads of reasons people choose to do this element of it.
But giving a corporate entity free labour, yer get ta fuck.
I know living conditions were far more basic in her youth but was the risk of homelessness while in paid employment a thing then?
Upper middle class twat that has never had to do a real days work in her life needs to stfu.
“We hung on in there, took some very humble jobs.”
Did we? What humble jobs did you do, Joanna? Spend much time down the mines?
If employers or companies actually considered unpaid work or volunteering as real experience I might consider it. But having worked unpaid as a volunteer for years before covid, I can say employers don’t care that you can work your ass off unpaid, and volunteer work just makes you less likely to be considered for paid or subsidised training programmes.