It's interesting how the refrain is usually "the power of the free market", "let the free market decide" yada yada. However, as soon as workers decide to express their power by using their free market labor to push companies to do the right thing. All of a sudden people come out with the authoritarian dribble written above, and the "take politics out of the workplace" (which is literally a political position).
Worry less about the profits of a monopoly and more about the will of the people to do the right thing in lieu of some ostensible catastrophic profit loss that's more than likely not going to happen.
Also, this whole "programmers are going to turn into illegal rogue agents and sabotage amazon customers" is beyond absurd reactionary hysterics.
The fact is that, while the mainstream media pays attention to the far right outcry of censorship and demonetization, the left alternative media is also censored and demonetized on YouTube.
YouTube is actively promoting the content of mainstream corporate sources that are inoffensive to advertisers with no say from its creators, it’s employees or its viewers/subscribers. And this is truly the fundamental problem.
YouTube has zero accountability to anyone accept its advertisers, it’s major shareholders which there are few, and its board which there are few. YouTube being the only game in town, makes it impossible for the free market to allow you to move your eyeballs to another video platform.
The fact is we need regulation and democratic oversight over YouTube as it is demonstrably a public good and a monopoly.
Japan still has the same royal succession and still denies the atrocities committed during the rape of Nanking... while obviously it’s different, there’s still a problematic and long lasting connection to the Japan of the 40s.
That discussion is settled. The lie that it isn’t, is continued to oppress and make public the female body to continue her unpaid labor in both reproducing the work force and her unpaid labor in managing her family for the benefit of the corporation.
I find this advice odd. I have to imagine that part of wanting to be a writer is also being recognized for your creative work as an individual.
Telling someone to write documentation that ultimately will be attributed to the company and only seen by the employees or technical end users is a bizarrely tone deaf piece of advice for a someone who wants to be a writer.
The final paragraph is a more human and less corporate drone piece of advice.
It’s quite clear that you are indulging in the fantasy of the free market correcting itself by the patrons dollar. This rarely plays out in reality. It even more rarely plays out when certain corporations have hegemonic control of technology, culture and the body politic.
This is just false. Please learn how to do a modicum of research before putting forth these reactionary idiotic rumors.
Sam Durant wanted the sculpture to be DISMANTLED after it was heavily protested by local Dakota's for it's insensitivity.
Durant literally agreed to having it dismantled and it was buried by Dakota Elders.
"I made Scaffold as a learning space for people like me, white people who have not suffered the effects of a white supremacist society and who may not consciously know that it exists" said Durant, "white artists need to address issues of white supremacy."
It’s problematic, because it’s reinforcing a particular worldview and ideology and it’s giving the reader a vocabulary that continues the status quo of American supremacy and American hegemony.
If your small contribution is allowing you to delude yourself into think that it’s enough to ever have a cumulative effect for the positive, then that contribution is still an engine for the negative outcomes of the status quo.
Worry less about the profits of a monopoly and more about the will of the people to do the right thing in lieu of some ostensible catastrophic profit loss that's more than likely not going to happen.
Also, this whole "programmers are going to turn into illegal rogue agents and sabotage amazon customers" is beyond absurd reactionary hysterics.