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this take is kind of breathtaking? There's an entire history of workers unions in the US and around the world, famous spurring events like the Triangle Shirtwa
by zzzeek 4y ago
this take is kind of breathtaking? There's an entire history of workers unions in the US and around the world, famous spurring events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, surely you aren't just waving the entire subject off as "absurd", thinking that whole factories of garment workers for example would have success via "individual performance" ? like they'd have fire exits just for the better performing workers? I can't even get my head around this take.
- wil421 4y agoThey are comparing an office job to a back breaking trade (plumbing, metal working, electrician) or manufacturing job. Factory jobs have lots of people doing the same reparative job, individual performance only goes so far. Would the bosses really care if you are the fastest chicken skinner or bolt screwer?
- nerdponx 4y agoIt exemplifies the "individual exceptionalism" attitude of many Americans, wherein they attribute all their successes to themselves and all their failures to external forces beyond their control.
- zzzeek 4y agoyeah that's the baseline attitude of Hacker Newsers, that post went way above and beyond all that in its ignorance :)