I wrote a book.

I have a mantra in my writing and for my life: The Smallest Details Have The Greatest Effect.

Also called The Splinter Effect, by me and now you, because a simple splinter can cause more problems than say a swallow cut despite the cut doing more damage and drawing more blood. A cut just needs a rag on it for five minutes and you're good 9 times out of 10, but a splinter will drive you crazy with the constant pain and cause a deadly infestation if you don't remove it AZAP. Of course, they both get outranked by like.. an actual stabbing, but that's another metaphor.

Bi-weekly pay started in an age before The Super Information Revolution. Back when the beans were counted by hand, and computers were just the new cool-ass spreadsheets. Errors needed a bit of time to fix and did double checking. A company switching over from weekly pay to bi-weekly as the company grew made some sense. There were downsides. Dozens, but they were metaphorical paper cuts compared to the metaphorical stabbings that could happen without the extra time to review the records.

But things have changed. Now we have robot bean counters who even sort black from white from red and even pinto. Faster than any human and with no pay. The errors are also easier to fix. There are no reasons for keeping bi-weekly pay and a lot of reasons to get rid of it.

First, it keeps your money out of your pocket for longer, so you go longer without your compensation. Which is bad for your sense of work-reward feedback.

Second, it breaks your weekly schedule cycle sync with society. Friday no longer becomes bar night with da boyz, but rather every other Friday you talk to see who's available because nobody has a set schedule anymore because no one can get a solid routine anymore.

Lastly, it fucks your sense of budgeting. You no longer think about what to pay each week and instead just get your check and think "I can afford this and that" and before you know it, you're broke again and you just need a few more days before your next check. I've actually heard people say they prefer bi-weekly because they "get a bigger check for my budget" and it's just like... I don't know. I don't have a metaphor for this. That picture with the beakers? Maybe?

So yeah. Fuck bi-weekly. Remember: The Smallest Details Have The Greatest Effect.
Call Congress to ban bi-weekly pay.

Leftists infighting holds the left more than anything. If the left unified and coordinated then we could actually make real progress. But instead we turn on each other on smaller details that don't actually matter. Opinions really.

We need to undo capitalism.
"And replace it with what?"
It doesn't matter. Anything is better than the current that rewards bad behavior. I would happily live in an authoritarian monarchy if the monarch focused on actually helping the people. "But hierarchy is-"
It doesn't matter. If the choice is a bad hierarchy where Fat Cat destroy or a good hierarchy where someone can do something, then I know my pick. Demand the King hold open court so people can reason with him and have open debate. Problem solved.

Don't let the means justify the end. Because The Right will happily agree to put all of us in the same hole.