12 ms·
International Workers' Day
- palmotea 1y agoDiscriminatory and biased! Why is so much attention lavished on workers? Where's International Shareholders' day? Where is a day to celebrate wealth and those who have it? Both of those things are far more important than lowly labor.
- NhanH 1y agoThat’s just Black Friday.
- amarcheschi 1y agoI'd say that's just any other day
- sgt 1y agoForget ordinary shareholders day, what about celebrating billionaires in some way? I can't recall that ever to happen./s
- MarcelOlsz 1y agoReminds me of this [0] classic. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4
- nosioptar 1y agoThat took me entirely too damned long to realize that wasn't a real billionaire whining. I prefer to raise awareness to the plight of the rich with music: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ej7dfPL7Kho&pp=ygUNc2F2ZSB0aGUgcmljaNIHCQmECQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D https://youtube.com/watch?v=ej7dfPL7Kho&pp=ygUNc2F2ZSB0aGUgc...
- tchalla 1y agoIt wasn’t even satire. It was based on this opinion from WSJ > Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? > I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich." https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316...
- moomin 1y agoWe should hold it on Jan 6.
- shove 1y agoThis is presumably sarcastic, but be aware you’re posting on HN where such opinions are held unironically.
- cratermoon 1y agoPoe's Law applies.
- bawolff 1y agoIn the united states, it is nov 18 (National Entrepreneur Day)
- ks2048 1y ago> Both of those things are far more important than lowly labor. That's why labor gets 1 day and owners get 364. (Just realized that's roughly in the ballpark of CEO-to-worker wage ratio. ~290:1)
- alabastervlog 1y agoIt's truly under-appreciated how much the rich do for the economy, and indeed, for the workers, by having some database rows in some computers with their names on them.
- TOGoS 1y agoBut the numbers next to their names aren't big enough. We're gonna have to gut social services and environmental protections in an attempt to pump those numbers up. Oh and definitely everything we can to cast unions in a bad light. Who needs a union? All they do is eat your hot chip.
- belter 1y agoWell... "National Shareholder Day" - https://www.nationaldayarchives.com/day/national-shareholders-day/ https://www.nationaldayarchives.com/day/national-shareholder...
- arbuge 1y agoWell you do get admission to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting if you buy just a single share (and prepare your wallet for exorbitant Omaha hotel prices that weekend). Closest thing to that I can think of.
- cratermoon 1y ago> exorbitant Omaha hotel prices That phrase doesn't compute. Except for "during that weekend", when of course they all jack up their rates knowing who is coming to stay.
- y-curious 1y agoThe stock is trading at only ~$800k USD and people complain that the 1% is a closed-off club.
- eli_gottlieb 1y ago>Where's International Shareholders' day? The entire rest of the goddamn year.
- arduanika 1y agoThat's a capital idea!
- MarcelOlsz 1y agoI'm celebrating by working all day.
- tlogan 1y agoWith all the “fascist” and “Nazi” labels being thrown around these days—often without much historical context—here’s a surprising fact I just learned: Nazi Germany was the first non-communist country to officially make May 1st, International Workers’ Day, a national public holiday.
- ty6853 1y agoI mean the nazis were nominally socialist. And they had heavy price and wage controls and de facto government control of much of industry. They used communism-lite.
- cenamus 1y agoWell it was a (total) war economy, not communism lite.
- dismalaf 1y ago[flagged]
- cmrdporcupine 1y agoExcept Mussolini defines what he's doing explicitly in opposition to socialism, as a break from the socialist movement he had sort-of been a part of before his rise to prominence. Both he and the NAZIs saw themselves as trying to save the country from socialists & communists. Just because the American education system defined "socialism" as "when the government does stuff" doesn't mean that's what it is, in, y'know, the actual real historical world. Revolutionary socialism / communism = a working class movement trying to overthrow the dominance of the capitalist class. So putting the working class above all else. Fascism = a nationalist movement trying to dissolve all class and other distinctions into the nation. So putting the nation above all else. The role of the state may look effectually similar in the practices of both, but the reason and practice for doing so is entirely different.
- lenerdenator 1y ago
- wolvesechoes 1y agoPeople died while trying to get better, more humane working conditions. I tend to think we forget that things we enjoy today were won through, sometimes violent, struggle, and we take them for granted, what makes it easier to lose them. To me this is one of the most important celebrations.
- bawolff 1y agoOne thing i find interesting is how rarely labour struggles are depicted in mainstream tv/movies. We have every type of revolutionary tv shows, including some fairly rediculous ones (e.g. divergent) but almost never strikes. The only exception i can really think of is that one episode of battlestar galactica (maybe give star trek ds9 half a point because they treated it in such a silly fashion).
- potato3732842 1y ago>One thing i find interesting is how rarely labour struggles are depicted in mainstream tv/movies. Same reason all sorts of other stuff has gone nearly extinct. Mainstream entertainment media is subject to the same eyeball-hour based economics as everything else and that content doesn't resonate with enough people.
- bawolff 1y agoGiven how every second piece of mainstream entertainment is about sticking it to the man, i find that reasoning a little uncompelling.
- potato3732842 1y agoYou can't make a hollywood movie or expensive TV series or other top tier content about something that can't be repackaged and resold to foreign audiences.
- archagon 1y ago
- nonrandomstring 1y agoI associate May 1 with getting mashed in Helsinki as for many years I spent it in Finland, with amazing parties in the park for Vappu [0] the Spring Festival. It's a celebration of Spring, labour day, and also "education and industry" since people proudly wear their school colours, company badges and graduation caps. Quite an atmosphere! [0] https://en.biginfinland.com/vappu-spring-fest-finland/ https://en.biginfinland.com/vappu-spring-fest-finland/
- pessimizer 1y agoAccording to the US, whose movements originated the May Day holiday, it's officially "Law Day," which is the day we celebrate obedience to the law (I assume by not celebrating May Day.) The Voice of America is the only media outlet I've ever heard actually celebrating Law Day. An old job of mine had a poster on the wall for Law Day that VoA had actually printed and given away for some reason.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- Neonlicht 1y agoAll of Europe celebrated May day. All of Europe? No one village stood against the lazy commie legions!
- fullstackchris 1y agoGood thing we're all working here in Switzerland :/
- user9999999999 1y ago[flagged]
- kunley 1y agoObligatory marching for everyone during commie period in some countries. Luckily that ended in 1989, the holiday stayed