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Because economy exists to sustain and enrich the lives of humans, not the other way around.
by xr4ti 9y ago
Because economy exists to sustain and enrich the lives of humans, not the other way around.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoYet, capitalism and the free market. This is little different from a McDonalds shift manager watching over workers at the lunch rush.
- xr4ti 9y agoThere are qualitative and quantitative differences between requiring weekly progress meetings, daily updates, and microchipping employees.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoBut not between a manager on the floor, looking you in the eye, and a bracelet doing the same.
- xr4ti 9y agoA manager can't follow each individual employee every moment of the day. To be a little more abstract, I'm talking about the degree of privacy and autonomy that workers are afforded. The reason people find the idea of wristband tracking objectionable is because it provides a means to reduce the autonomy of large numbers of workers beyond what was previously feasible.
- smacktoward 9y agoExcept for the part where they don't have to pay a shift manager and the lunch rush never ends.