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Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike. Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for

Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike. Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country. But feudal exploitation by the rich and each other locally is preferred.

lapinot 5y ago
> a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country Strikes are social events, you don't do it alone. There's usually a minority of agitators/organizers that are respected/trusted among workers and that call the shots/organize the fun. So working from home is very much anti-organization and hinders strikes. It isolates workers.
- kktkti9 5y ago
  Literally isolates. I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.
  - pigeonhole123 5y ago
    This sarcastic tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it.
    - kktkti9 5y ago
      This patronizing tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it. The extent of our interaction is a few lines on HN while I’m bored on vacation due to bad weather. You really have my behavior the other 365 days a year figured out.
  - mschuster91 5y ago
    The problem is "mob dynamics". A visible picket line, a blocked street - that creates attention and draws more workers into the strike. On the Internet, these crowd dynamics don't work nearly as effective as they do in the meatspace.
    - kktkti9 5y ago
      You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in? Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in? Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up? No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old? Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.
      - kfprt 5y ago
        Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
        kktkti9 5y ago
        You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice? I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole. Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.
    - lobocinza 5y ago
      Isn't Twitter a thing?

lapinot 5y ago

> a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country Strikes are social events, you don't do it alone. There's usually a minority of agitators/organizers that are respected/trusted among workers and that call the shots/organize the fun. So working from home is very much anti-organization and hinders strikes. It isolates workers.

kktkti9 5y ago
Literally isolates. I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.
- pigeonhole123 5y ago
  This sarcastic tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it.
  - kktkti9 5y ago
    This patronizing tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it. The extent of our interaction is a few lines on HN while I’m bored on vacation due to bad weather. You really have my behavior the other 365 days a year figured out.
- mschuster91 5y ago
  The problem is "mob dynamics". A visible picket line, a blocked street - that creates attention and draws more workers into the strike. On the Internet, these crowd dynamics don't work nearly as effective as they do in the meatspace.
  - kktkti9 5y ago
    You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in? Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in? Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up? No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old? Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.
    - kfprt 5y ago
      Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
      - kktkti9 5y ago
        You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice? I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole. Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.
  - lobocinza 5y ago
    Isn't Twitter a thing?