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by 49531 8y ago
My favorite thing about my local waho vista is that I can see another waho from it.
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by 49531 8y ago
Imagine if the entire web were subject to the arbitrary will of an individual corporation.
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by 49531 8y ago
Unions are also like macros for action. All the work that goes into organized action is streamlined when you do it permanently as a union. It makes little sense to stick your neck out, and then wait until something goes wrong again and havi
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by 49531 8y ago
Life is a bit more nuanced than profit-motive vs charity. I'd guess most of the folks on HN work for a salary at a company. There isn't a ton of "profit-motive" in the work. You don't necessarily get more money if y
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by 49531 8y ago
Well, we had food and shelter before we had profit motives.
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by 49531 8y ago
> The degree of organization needed depends on the circumstances Not as much as you might think. Militant labor unions are still extremely beneficial despite the lack of Pinkerton assassins. The hardest part in organizing is going from 0
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by 49531 8y ago
Someone being amazon.
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I lived in seattle during the city council’s employment tax. It was wild how many canvassing yuppies amazon had on the streets trying to get folks to sign their petition.
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by 49531 8y ago
I'd argue that a lot of folks care about the opinions of non-experts.
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by 49531 8y ago
This analysis of politics is only coherent if you ignore the existence of ideology entirely. It's true that "facts" don't necessarily unite people of competing ideologies because that's not how ideology works. You c
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by 49531 8y ago
I don't think Brett Kavanaugh is really suffering right now, or that he lost any money.
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by 49531 8y ago
I agree with this but am always skeptical of the YIMBY side of things. At least as I understand it, YIMBYism is advocating for deregulated real estate development markets? So maybe my understanding of it is skewed, but I can't really s
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by 49531 8y ago
You'll never have banks working in consumers self interest as long as they are profit driven organizations. Public banks tend to work better for actual sensible banking.
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by 49531 8y ago
> Your income, investments, and career have to be at the forefront of your mind, always. And even then there's a ton of chance involved. This is true and it's immensely disheartening that we live in a world where this is true.
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I don't think someone being a thief makes them cowardly, and thus not open to coming back and throwing a brick through your window in retaliation. A thief is already open to the idea of invading your personal space for gain, why not re
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by 49531 8y ago
Innocence in this sense isn't binary. Is the death penalty issued for thievery?
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by 49531 8y ago
It's extremely reductive to label the ideology of Marx and that of the Nazis as two sides of the same coin. Yea, planned economies suck and systematic mismanagement can have devastating effects, but you think that is comparable to an i
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by 49531 8y ago
These are great examples if you have no understanding of power structures. Individual humans are problematic by their nature. They're sexist, racist, and all other kinds of "ists", and black nationalism is just as dumb as whi
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by 49531 8y ago
Because the things youre commenting have little to no connection to the real world. White genocide? My dude that's literally neo-nazi propaganda.
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by 49531 8y ago
I wouldn't call that the left, but just that capitalist have found that they can profit more by sharing the values most people in their market share. Most Americans, for instance, are much more progressive on social issues. It's j
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by 49531 8y ago
The Left is 100% anti-capitalist. Any leftist movement that makes concessions for capital is a movement with a built in self destruct sequence.
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by 49531 8y ago
If something were "extreme leftist" I would assume it to be worker owned and operated, not a VC funded capitalist corporation in the traditional sense. It's essentially just extreme liberalism. Still capitalist in every way s
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by 49531 8y ago
> extreme leftist corporations. What an oxymoron.
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by 49531 8y ago
They're no more corrupt than large corporate players, but I can vote for my local government.
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by 49531 8y ago
Many unions in the US are not multi-organization groups. A lot of folks unionize their co-workers without collaborating with, or joining, a trade or national union. I like it this way better because it gives you the ability to have more con
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by 49531 8y ago
"union bureaucracy" is mostly just anti-union propaganda, unions are no more bureaucratic than the corporations they live in, the difference is they are typically democratic organizations. You have little to no control over the bu
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by 49531 8y ago
You cannot actually ratify a union without a majority of workers. Unions are typically democratic organizations. Also folks don't usually like to stick their heads out if there isn't enough of a movement to avoid being fired for o
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by 49531 8y ago
This is such a backwards way of thinking about collective bargaining. The corporations you work for the the exact same thing (lobby for things they want) and it's rarely for your own benefit. The difference between a union and a corpor
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by 49531 8y ago
Getting past 40 years of hardcore anti-union propaganda won't be easy, especially in tech which essentially came into its own in tandem with neoliberalism.

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