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Every organization of every type starts small. They don’t all become large. We could say the same thing about every failed startup company that was a peer to A
by dangus 3y ago
Every organization of every type starts small. They don’t all become large.
We could say the same thing about every failed startup company that was a peer to Amazon in the 90s, I guess they were all just performance art corporations.
Why even bother getting up in the morning, right?
- ryandrake 3y agoI’m just not a big believer in doing things that don’t work. Even large scale protests rarely achieve meaningful results. Labor walkouts, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, COVID protesters and the truckers, Just Stop Oil, PETA theatrics, the weekly marches on Washington for this cause and that cause: have any of them actually changed anything? When it comes to how companies operate, only shareholders get to vote. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. Convince shareholders, and they’ll motivate management/leadership. When it comes to government policy changes, convince voters and they will elect people who might implement that change. Protesting and picketing is “doing nothing, loudly.”
- ShroudedNight 3y agoI would expect shareholders to start caring if labour appears organized enough to threaten continued operations of the company.
- mikhael28 3y agoLabor walkouts have changed the lives of millions of people in the 20th century. You have grown spoiled living in the 21st century, and have completely discounted the contributions of generations before you.
- oenddndn 3y agoIt’s always a solid point when you’re like “100 years ago this stuff mattered!”
- klyrs 3y ago"Doing nothing" can have quite an impact on a company's bottom line. A walkout like this may be a precursor to a vote to unionize, which may be a precursor to a strike action, which may lead to collective bargaining that results in better working conditions. Doing nothing can accomplish something, and has done for centuries.
- flangola7 3y agoThe biggest issue with modern activism is that it acts like peaceful vocal protest is the end of the line when really it's in the middle of a wide spectrum of options. If the people making the decisions don't care about you there is no construct of words that will have any effect on their behavior. If a sociopath is beating his wife or robbing his neighbor, debate club persuasion is not the tool for the job.
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