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That is quite the stretch to think those situations are "a bit [a]like".

by gwright 3y ago

gumballindie 3y ago
Two sides of the same coin. I know it’s difficult to see it while stuck inside the loop but corporate work is like soviet work with fancy iphones and the illusion of free choice (you can chose as long as the choice is right). The politburo is replaced by the board while the apparatus by management. Conformity and obedience are not just desired are actively encouraged. Spreading corporate propaganda and preventing workers from organising are also shared values. All in all both are systems of oppression with the exception that in free societies you can escape - until of course they find a way to replace people at scale. Then you get sucked back in while the proletariat cheers from the sides.
- RajT88 3y ago
  And a good manager, which supports your out-of-box thinking to work around bureaucratic limits, functions as a leader of the resistance.
  - gumballindie 3y ago
    There you go. I cant help but wonder what would such people have achieved hadn't they been “freed” of their “burdens” by the “democratisation” of every aspect of free enterprise (coincidentally, communism also saw itself as a democratising force). I have a feeling those people would have lived a free and independent life as a small business owner with employees that looked forward to working with them.
- gwright 3y ago
  All things are "the same" at some level of abstraction. But if you have to reach to a high level of abstraction to illustrate that the things are the same, I don't see that as a particularly insightful comparison. Sameness is a mundane observation at a high level of abstraction. Sort of like just tossing your hands up and saying "life sucks" regardless of what "system" you are living under and then concluding all "systems" are "two sides of the same coin".

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That is quite the stretch to think those situations are "a bit [a]like".

by gwright 3y ago

That is quite the stretch to think those situations are "a bit [a]like".

gumballindie 3y ago
Two sides of the same coin. I know it’s difficult to see it while stuck inside the loop but corporate work is like soviet work with fancy iphones and the illusion of free choice (you can chose as long as the choice is right). The politburo is replaced by the board while the apparatus by management. Conformity and obedience are not just desired are actively encouraged. Spreading corporate propaganda and preventing workers from organising are also shared values. All in all both are systems of oppression with the exception that in free societies you can escape - until of course they find a way to replace people at scale. Then you get sucked back in while the proletariat cheers from the sides.
- RajT88 3y ago
  And a good manager, which supports your out-of-box thinking to work around bureaucratic limits, functions as a leader of the resistance.
  - gumballindie 3y ago
    There you go. I cant help but wonder what would such people have achieved hadn't they been “freed” of their “burdens” by the “democratisation” of every aspect of free enterprise (coincidentally, communism also saw itself as a democratising force). I have a feeling those people would have lived a free and independent life as a small business owner with employees that looked forward to working with them.
- gwright 3y ago
  All things are "the same" at some level of abstraction. But if you have to reach to a high level of abstraction to illustrate that the things are the same, I don't see that as a particularly insightful comparison. Sameness is a mundane observation at a high level of abstraction. Sort of like just tossing your hands up and saying "life sucks" regardless of what "system" you are living under and then concluding all "systems" are "two sides of the same coin".