uriel238
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- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 3 days ago:
I’m very tempted to choose a brain worm of your own and push that agenda at him to assert dominance, but that’s because I can be a passive-aggressive fuck if I feel someone is being overly aggressive.
Judgemental religious folk can bring out the Azathoth Hypothesis in me.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Parkinson’s law: Work expands to consume the time available. (1955)
This is just blaming bureaucratic drift on the workforce. Only in the 2020s (or since the late 1980s) companies abandoned any care or concern for their own workers, and are glad to lay them off during growth to maximize profit.
The ownership class will tremble something something. We literally have nothing left to lose but our chains.
- Comment on Somebody do something. Somebody? 4 weeks ago:
Some day we’ll find our Mahsa Amini, the last straw. It may be an industrial accident in which workers were locked in place. It may be a dead girl. It may be a law that denies too many people healthcare. It may be a day of mass famine.
It’ll be the day that enough people have had enough to riot at a scale that overwhelms all responders.
The more we try other things, the more our peaceful protests and unionization efforts and mutual aid efforts get assaulted and brutalized by law enforcement, the closer we get to realizing that nothing short of razing the plutocrats is going to stop them.
They will kill us all before they give up their power and cruelty. The question is how many of us have to fall victim to the system before we act.
- Comment on Weston Wamp, Helton, Several Legislators Urge VW Workers Not To Vote In UAW 1 month ago:
If your legislators are telling you you shouldn’t unionize, they’re admitting they’re not your friends and admitting who owns them.
Your options are to unionize or get violent, since they’re only going to attack your civil liberties from here on out.
- Comment on Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ 2 months ago:
I can see the confusing jungle law like frontier justice is a term used for the lawlessness of the wilderness. If tiger is hungry and can overpower you, tiger eats you.
In this case, the labor force rises up like zombies and tears upper management apart, or feeds them into the machines, or beats them with big wrenches, if history tells. They may put it off by hiring strikebusters and police with dogs. The bloodier it starts, the bigger the fire.
- Comment on Pay raise? Nah... pizza party time! 3 months ago:
If you’re trying to unionize, that’s their cue to unconditionally raise pay and benefits, and manage hazards and overtime demands.
If the bosses aren’t scramblingy to make the workplace not a hell hole, then a union is necessary and if the union fails, it’s time to move on and / or burn down the workplace.
- Comment on "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer 3 months ago:
The problem (according to Das Kapital ) is that the owning class will fight back. Not all of them. Some realize that long-term capitalism requires keeping the working class happy (more or less) but well more than not. And as we learned with feudalism in the middle ages, it takes only one bad king to bring the ruin the works of ten of his predecessors. (It’s a running theme in A Song of Ice and Fire )
So these recommendations are on the assumption that our governments are not already captured. The point of government is to serve the public good and the US has been trying to go back to that for over a century (since the Great depression, which escalated the desire to try something else, all the while the Soviet Union was doing just that.)
Our plutocrats have more resources by which to keep hold of our current governments, even as industry pollutes the air and drives us toward extinction.
- Comment on "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer 3 months ago:
Yeah, I do that a lot.
- Comment on "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer 3 months ago:
Bidenomic is based in Reaganomics only doesn’t hand social program budgets so quickly to the religious ministries.
Even in the 1800s railrod barons owned all the candidates in the primaries. So we can’t redistribute wealth by vote.
It does show what it did during the Great Depression. Our ownership class will gladly see us starve and freeze than give up their vast holdings. They’ll hire armies and lawyers alike to keep wealth they cannot actually utilize (except to gain more wealth) even if it drives the human species to extinction.
And the longer it takes for the public to fight back, the higher the global catastrophic risk.
This, however, isn’t to say we can choose revolution at any time. Violence remains unthinkable until the hour it is inevitable; until the hour we find our Mahsa Amini, we can only stir and wait.
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 3 months ago:
If your company doesn’t pay its employees a living wage or better, then your business model sucks and should collapse.
Since anticompetitive practices and lobbying are the norm and the most profitable investments businesses can make, the whole capitalist system sucks and we should move towards socialized hamburger franchises.
- Comment on The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up 4 months ago:
Because our industrialist masters think revolution is no longer an option.
- Comment on EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters 5 months ago:
Wow. How did we NSDAP that coming?
- Comment on Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago 6 months ago:
I opine this is the advantage of growing up on social media and being used to deliberating. When I was a young clerk in the late eighties, we were pressured not to ask questions about cruel treatment, (which factored into my suicidality.)
When zoomers see something weird or harsh, they go on social media and ask their homies my boss keeps hanging around looking down my blouse. Does anyone else think it’s supet creepy? So they get a lot of rapid feedback.
Maybe they’ll lead the revolution toppling capitalism.
- Comment on UAW preparing the US for a general strike in 2028 6 months ago:
FINALLY
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 6 months ago:
Considering how easily people are dismissed for failing to blow the management, I call shenanigans.
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 6 months ago:
If you have to underpay your workers to make enough profit, then your business model sucks, and your company should fail.
Economics 1B
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 6 months ago:
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth - Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 6 months ago:
then no one will work if they can choose to not.
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 6 months ago:
We need to eliminate the expectation that underpaid workers will or should bust their butt for the potential of a raise.
You treat me right and pay me well (a sustainable income) then I’ll move mountains for you. But treat me inhumanely or pay me a pittance and I’ll assume you wish I wasn’t here.
- Comment on We're already understaffed... 6 months ago:
I do like the employee solidarity maneuver of refusing to fill in for understaffing or train new hires for a significant interim after a recent dismissal.
If a company doesn’t treat workers like human beings, then maybe the company shouldn’t be regarded as a society participant.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Alleges ‘Bully Tactics’ as Studios Suspend Negotiations 7 months ago:
There are a lot of weird laws / precedents that criminalize striking behavior or give companies the benefit of the doubt, much thanks to institutions like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society pushing for appointments of people who like bourgeoisie types and think of the proletariat as less-than-human. So yeah, the law has been chipping away at union power since well before the eighties, when Reagan smote union power low.
But we’re at a point (especially after the Dobbs ruling) where the public is giving fewer fucks what the courts or lawbooks say, since it’s been vice versa for decades now. The public legitimacy of SCOTUS and the justice system is lower than it has been through the 20th century. And given most companies routinely engage in (illegal) strikebusting behavior but isn’t even penalized for it (or is fined a pittance), it’s been well established the federal legal system and most state legal systems have been captured by the companies they’re striking against.
So things may well get messy, especially since the studios and labels in Hollywood have tipped their hand, showing they very much want to replace all talent with generative AI as soon as they can as part of their media as product push since the 2010s, even if it means all films and songs are mediocre and derivative sequels.
- Comment on Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation 7 months ago:
Europol seeks unlimited data access because Power. Child abuse is just a scare justification. They’ll use the unlimited data access to justify eliminating enemies of the police, eventually journalists and undesirable populations.
We’ve been down this road so many times before.
- Comment on Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike after nearly 150 days 7 months ago:
I’m sorry. I’ll believe it when I see it. I don’t trust undisclosed terms.
- Comment on Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US 7 months ago:
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For a while FOX News used the term job creators even as unemployment was critical.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 7 months ago:
A well-regulated private banking industry
Remember that shareholder primacy assures the banks will pressure the government to deregulate, eventually capturing regulatory departments, as has happened in the US (if not the whole developed world).
Marx explains this in Das Kapital even when there was a notion of social responsibility. But after Dodge v. Ford Motor Company in 1919, it was established by judicial ruling that publicly owned companies have interests in direct opposition to the public, and should not be allowed to influence government, which is meant to serve the interests of the public (and only the public).
Even in 1919, plutocrats had already been dismantling US democracy towards oligarchy. It had failed just as the Soviet Union was trying its hand at ur-communism (and being sabotaged by Wilson).
- Comment on Ubisoft Montreal's mandatory return-to-office order reportedly leaves staff in "turmoil" 8 months ago:
Ubisoft was discovered a few years ago to be a sexual harassment ring disguised as a AAA game publisher a scandal about which they’ve since done nothing to improve matters.
Also they totally abandoned their commitments to limited dark patterns to sell microtransactions, which puts them in the same category of predatory company as John Riccitiello.
- Comment on McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow' 8 months ago:
I live in Sacramento. I’m fine with all the McDonalds franchises in California shutting down.
- Comment on Unity silently removed clause that let you use TOS from version you shipped with 8 months ago:
Can they legally revise a contract like this?
- Comment on Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place 8 months ago:
Automated production.
It is easier to see the extinction of humanity than the end of capitalism. But if we cannot imagine the end of capitalism we will see the extinction of humanity.
Eventually, though (as Sophie From Mars speculates) the population will be reduced to where the USD and EU are meaningless, and the remaining bands act more like mutual aid.
The question is if humanity has been reduced by then to tens of millions, or thousands.