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I’d encourage you to think about why you responded to this article about human misery by searching for reasons the humans deserve to be miserable.

• galangalalgol 5y ago
  not sure about their motivation, but they made a good point. We need to educate poor working class that there is a shortage of labor so they can ask for more. For capitalists, you can view this as quickly snapping labor costs to actual values. It is an efficiency boost.
  • otde 5y ago
    This is quite the paternalist view of working class people — is this not a concerted effort by working class professionals, asking for more? Considering the frequent remoteness of factory locations and the costs (monetary, social, etc) of moving elsewhere, striking for better conditions seems like a pretty educated decision, one which reflects an intimate understanding of the multiplicative effects of collective bargaining. W/R/T the top-level comment: to frame coercive forces (isolation, geography, exploitation, and so on) as matters purely of individual choices speaks to a deep rejection of systems thinking that’s both a. unproductive in a conversation about labor practices resulting from intricate and brutal edifices of human suffering, and b. misses the point of collective action, which has over the course of multiple centuries chipped away at the brutality of said edifices, strike by strike.
• sneak 5y ago
  You seem to have misunderstood my comment.