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by 0x262d 7y ago
they're just starting that long history. unions come up because companies have to increase profits and eventually, after other growth slows, that comes at the expense of their employees. the recent spate of activism against google is a
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this is a really bad fallback response to a company doing something that is, essentially, evil.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
the new yorker is the most prominent top hat aesthetic organization in the world. just look at their icon. andwhile they are often nominally opposed to monopoly they're a thoroughly capitalist news organization that is privately owned
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by 0x262d 7y ago
1. Google is not exemplary, lmao, they have a terrible culture of paying off executives for harassment and assault which has been thoroughly documented in the NYT and elsewhere 2. the idea that if somewhere else is worse, we shouldn't
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by 0x262d 7y ago
yes, trying to stop employer misdeeds is indeed very political.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
honestly using diaeresis (things that look like umlauts) while typing stuff out about how people who don't want to work for an evil company are being controlled by other forces just gives off the biggest wannabe top hat monopoly capita
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by 0x262d 7y ago
also, the core problem is that treating workers well is not in "alignment with leadership"
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by 0x262d 7y ago
lol this is absurd, they're fighting against rampant sexual harassment and a variety of other real workplace problems, not being mind controlled by nefarious bolsheviks
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by 0x262d 7y ago
yeah, the converse of what the article talks about is that software engineers tend to be pretty arrogant and dismiss suggestions and requests from users and designers, and just treating them like people and seriously trying to find common g
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by 0x262d 7y ago
so I guess the previous title listing the fees and payment to plaintiffs was a little too edgy huh
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by 0x262d 7y ago
these comments are a cesspool
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by 0x262d 7y ago
cops are trained to view their own population as hostile everywhere
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by 0x262d 7y ago
the reviews are hosted by amazon. they exist to facilitate profitmaking by selling stuff. the company never even pretends to have goals at odds with that. some part of that requires barely pretending to not encourage this behavior... but th
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by 0x262d 7y ago
as expected, sections of the bourgeoisie are trying to barely solve CO2 pollution while continuing to maximize every other kind of resource consumption and concomitant non-CO2 pollution. or at least, pretend that they are trying to solve it
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by 0x262d 7y ago
try holding the world economy hostage with a massive amount of capital you've accrued through a combination of violence and abuse of capitalism's boom-bust nature for decades. then if you miss your lunch you can probably get someo
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by 0x262d 7y ago
"this is just pushing a narrative" is the perpetual bleating cry of people who want to ignore something that challenges their views
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by 0x262d 7y ago
you're right that they will do it under any system of class society, with a minority expropriating class and a majority producing class, such as have existed since the invention of written history. that's why marx called for aboli
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by 0x262d 7y ago
what capital says is that under capitalism, the ruling class will continually set up dumb rules, such as this one, in their favor, and they have a structural advantage in doing so, so are increasingly successful at it until it provokes revo
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by 0x262d 7y ago
curious for things like this more explicitly from workers' perspective, rather than like running a company in general.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
I took this class (although not from him). it's a good textbook and was pretty much sufficient.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this guy is awesome
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by 0x262d 7y ago
I have a Surface Book (original). The first keyboard started failing for no discernible reason. The replacement keyboard, which also has a dedicated graphics card in it, disconnects from the computer randomly causing weird errors and OS cra
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by 0x262d 7y ago
can someone please advertise public transit to these deep-pocketed VC dumbasses as somehow being an artificially intelligent city network something something we have a real bridge to sell you
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by 0x262d 7y ago
there is a flood of anti-china articles because china threatens the US' monopoly on high-tech profitmaking, and the US companies and rich people are laying the basis to protect their profits with war.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
lol yep! what's sad about this is that I totally believe that fb is doing pretty manipulative things - they have the biggest incentive in the world to get people to buy things - and that it is probably adjacent to the level of manipula
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by 0x262d 7y ago
no, efficiency is value in divided by value out.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
I can't, because American capitalism bombs every attempt to provide an example of an alternative out of existence, precisely to cause people to think there is no alternative in conversations like this. I will say that despite massive s
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by 0x262d 7y ago
what? the answer is to democratically come up with literally any policy for assigning cars that makes more sense than "rich people get whatever they want". it can even have market aspects to some extent if necessary.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
healthcare should really be the nail in the coffin of the efficiency argument. the reason it's more obvious that it works better provided publicly is basically that it's way more extensively studied and the US is such a great nega
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by 0x262d 7y ago
do you not assume people who disagree with you are acting in bad faith or are wrong? there are really only 3 options there. (the third being that you are in fact wrong). anyway those choices don't exist in a vacuum and markets don&#x

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