OwenEverbinde
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- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Materialist answer (inspired by a video called Why The Political Compass is Wrong: Establishing An Accurate Model of Political Ideology, by breadtuber Halim Alrah.
Business owner makes money by paying workers to produce widgets at $6 / unit. Owner sells these widgets at $10 / unit, making a $4 profit each sale.
Before long, the workers catch on to the reality of the situation: the owner could be making a lot less and still be able to provide “leadership” (or whatever it is he provides). They decide not to work for less than… $8 per unit. With this price, the owner will still be wealthy. But now, so will the workers.
Workers save up money and use it to go on strike.
However: business owner comes up with a better solution to the problem: he divides the workers into brown-eyed workers and blue-eyed workers. He then gets the government to discriminate heavily against the brown-eyed workers. His cronies in government make it legal to deny brown-eyed workers jobs and housing. His cronies in the media write hysterical anecdotal stories about various brown-eyed rapists, thieves, and murderers.
Terrified mobs – stoked into a frenzy by the business owner’s well-funded propaganda – tear down brown-eyed people’s homes and food supplies, forcing them destitute before the strike is done.
The brown-eyed workers now must choose between returning to work for the business owner at $5 / unit… or starving to death.
The blue-eyed workers, meanwhile, have just been tricked into betraying their own team. Some were not tricked, but simply unprepared. These blue-eyed workers stood by in either shock, uncertainty, or laziness. Unable to comprehend how their fellow blue-eyed workers could have become so foolish and so cruel.
But now the business owner can put up the illusion of no longer needing the blue-eyed workers. He can run his factory on a skeleton crew of desperate, brown-eyed workers, and say to the blue, “uh oh! Looks like the brown-eyed workers just stole your jobs!”
Much like the brown-eyed workers, the blue-eyed workers have a restricted set of choices: A) admit they were suckers, fooled into attacking their own team, and try to rebuild their union, or B) double down and blame brown-eyed people for undercutting them… but reluctantly return to work, because the strike has been broken. Or, C) just like the brown-eyed workers, they can choose to starve to death.
The business owner wins, and now society has an eye-color-discrimination problem. It was an arbitrary characteristic. Now it decides where someone lives, who they spend time with, and what kind of opportunities they have access to.
The business owner can rinse and repeat for: skin tone, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. As the saying goes,
“divide and conquer”
- Comment on The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract 4 months ago:
Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.
What a strange world we live in.
- Comment on The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract 4 months ago:
I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg’s and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.
“Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can’t admit I need my own workers.”
I know there wouldn’t be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 1 year ago:
Yeah… It’s a tiny sliver of the species.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 1 year ago:
Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.
- Comment on A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children 1 year ago:
Excellent response. Thank you.
So the most ethical diet choice is then “buy your meat local and make sure you know your butcher is over 16” ?
- Comment on A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children 1 year ago:
Are they exploited on farms that grow feed for chickens and cattle? Because if so, I could imagine someone making an argument for “lessening” child labor with their economic choices by simply eating the grains directly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
But I do believe GDP includes government spending.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
Yeah, but Fain is the first democratically elected UAW leader (prior leadership was chosen by delegations and was fraught with racketeering and embezzlement) and it shows.
- Comment on Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three 1 year ago:
Do you think it’s possible for a Twitter version of this drowning-out siren to exist? What would it look like?
- Comment on Is this significant? 1 year ago:
Thank you so much for all the information!
Damn. The old leadership – on top of being subservient – sounds like a bunch of crooks. I’m happy the UAW has its new process.
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- Comment on Amazon CEO says 'it’s probably not going to work out' for employees who defy return-to-office policy 1 year ago:
I don’t get it.
How is Amazon’s fate tied to the fate of office rental spaces, the transportation industry, or commuter stores?
How does the potential death of Taco Bell hurt an online marketplace?
- Comment on Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead 1 year ago:
Considering it was a “party-line decision.” I think Biden and the Democrats might deserve some credit just for not being Republicans.
- Comment on Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead 1 year ago:
In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith into bargaining.
Woah. That’s exciting. Union busting can automatically create a union. That’s… ironic. And beautiful.
- Comment on 62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll 1 year ago:
Anyone signing up for the new SAVE income driven repayment plan?
Apparently if you’re making anything under $32,800, your payments can still be paused.
- Comment on Push For A 4-Day Work Week Picks Up Steam — And Critics 1 year ago:
I also can’t help but notice how her personification of businesses (as things that can “really sweat”) and empathy for them far exceeds the thing she didn’t mention once in this quote – the workers.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
These companies wouldn’t even be able to get foreigners to replace the tech workers
Oh, but boy have they tried.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
I cannot even imagine how quickly entire systems would come crashing down to the tune of billions of dollars if tech workers ever decided to strike.
The amount of leverage they could have is they organized is mind boggling.