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by minimuffins 6y ago
Most people in film and TV unions aren't actors.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
These are all real problems, especially in a lot of today's older unions that have been completely hollowed out and have become a kind of do-nothing "labor aristocracy." They don't function as democratic institutions ser
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by minimuffins 6y ago
As for whether Marx was "discredited" in his own lifetime, I don't know where people get that idea. I hear it or something like it all the time. Like him or not, he's a hugely influential thinker even today. So are most
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I wish there was a term for "means of production" that was clearer or more succinct but I don't know one. The term is sometimes a discourse killer because it triggers a kind of (understandable) reflexive distaste for extremis
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yes because to actually produce the way Google produces you need more than a bunch of laptops. Think about all the kinds of capital Google owns from IP to massive data centers. On top of that they have huge sway with governments and a hand
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> why shouldn't I exercise the power I have? Absolutely correct. This is an IS/OUGHT distinction. Who cares what labor "should" do under the employer's ideology. Not too surprising they want us to think of oursel
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> Everybody is an entrepreneur. If you have nothing, you sell your body and work hours. But that's just a contract like every other contract. This is a fake world. In the real world there is history, capital and labor, and politics
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by minimuffins 6y ago
No, what "entitles" them is that they do the work and generate the profit and therefore have the power to organize themselves into a coherent, self-interested group that can withhold their labor if they don't get what they wa
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> Why shouldn't workers seek to capture as much of their labor as possible? Yes. This is the correct way to look at it. Another point I don't see so many people making here is it's about more than just raw compensation. A
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> Forming a union is not competitive, it’s the opposite. Yes. > that is exactly what anti-trust legislation is trying to prevent. This is so muddled. Anti-trust and pro-labor policies are not at odds. Corporations and the people who d
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> “Workers” aren’t some monolithic group Yes they are. We're all individuals and have different goals, wear different clothes, read different books, code in different editors, whatever, but objectively we all have something in commo
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yeah, I think it can be painfully helpful to go through that miserable experience at least once. But my very strong advice to others: Do NOT put up with that. You don't have to. There are so many companies, even now, where you can get
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I agree strongly with the main thrust of this article, but it doesn't support the "Loss of Locality" prong of the argument very well. > when reading through the original caller, it is less clear what the code does In my ex
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who read Hacker News feel this way about their own jobs. But surely you can see this is necessarily a minority of the population. Necessarily, most people who are part or the world econ
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by minimuffins 6y ago
It's in the article. Treating stray cats well is a feature of Muslim culture. It's true in other Muslim places too, not just Turkey. I've heard the same anecdotally about Mecca.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
If you really have anxiety about this I recommend not engaging with any new software at all and just wake up tomorrow and see who won.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I don't see how SPAs and mobile apps necessarily conflict with the ideas behind the semantic web. Anyway this claim seems to reverse cause and effect. SPAs started getting hyped a lot after it became apparent that big tech institutions
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> The Semantic Web flew in the face of enterprises like Google. This is a good analysis. Oftentimes the answer to why some technology succeeds or fails is more than just purely technical. It can be really useful to think in these kinds o
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by minimuffins 6y ago
The nation state concept is not going to just wither away tomorrow, leaving us freer to move about the world unimpeded by borders. But it does seem to be on the wane somehow. The standard issue modern nation state is an imperfect fit with t
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Why does it exist?
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This is good advice but I want to clarify that the problem I'm trying to highlight here is structural - historical and political, and we should be thinking about it that way too, as well trying to figure out how to cope with the situa
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yeah, that is a kind of postmodern take on the situation that I have some sympathy for. I do think this attitude could lead to a kind of quietism about a problem we could actually make a dent in though, if we did some things differently. I
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Well said. The problem is not bias but just the absence of any real content. What happened in the world today? CNN: Trump is rude and orange! etc.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Political alignment isn't the problem. Every outlet will spin the same facts differently, sometimes intentionally sometimes not, because of this or that ideological commitment. They will choose which facts to foreground and which to ba
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> cast a wide net, gather information from as many viewpoints as possible, I agree that's the best thing to do. It's a rational choice. I do it and recommend others do it. But there's still this historical problem of dives
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This post is unfairly downvoted. Downvoting is for content that violates community norms. This post doesn't do that. If you don't agree, just say why. Don't downvote.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
They could be funded unconditionally by the state. The BBC has, at times, been pretty good.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
The feeling that it's just completely impossible to know what's going on in the world is really debilitating. I spend probably an hour a day reading headlines from major outlets with a bunch of different political alignments, and
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This post is unfairly downvoted. Downvoting is for content that violates community norms. This post doesn't do that. If you don't agree, just say why. Don't downvote.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Who determines what workers "should" have by default? Once that moral determination is made, who makes sure it actually happens? Nothing in the world happens without power. A union is a way to get some. "Should" doesn&#x

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