The Real Point of Reddit’s Antiwork Sub(slate.com)
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The Real Point of Reddit’s Antiwork Sub
https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/reddit-antiwork-sub-viral-job-resignations.html
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Having worked food service for a decade and retail for a couple years before that, these stories sound pretty typical. The jobs that pay the least come with the most abuse.
If you read enough of the examples on antiwork you see most of those "texts from the boss" posts are fake.
They usually follow a formula. Boss: I need you to do something ridiculous.
Employee: I quit.
Boss: oh bother, I done goofed. What can we do to get you to stay.
Employee: fuck you
It's sad what people will make up for internet pats on the back
They usually follow a formula. Boss: I need you to do something ridiculous.
Employee: I quit.
Boss: oh bother, I done goofed. What can we do to get you to stay.
Employee: fuck you
It's sad what people will make up for internet pats on the back
While these people are extremely uninformed and their "solutions" would be absolutely catastrophic, they do have a point.
What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused by government regulation/meddling, often as a result of lobbying.
I'm talking about chemical patents and "safety regulations" making it practically impossible to compete with big pharma, making medicine extremely overpriced. Or government bailouts of banks which are long beyond bankruptcy causing all sorts of mishaps.
The only solution is a return to true capitalism. Career-politicians are just as guilty as (if not more than) the big corporations.
What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused by government regulation/meddling, often as a result of lobbying.
I'm talking about chemical patents and "safety regulations" making it practically impossible to compete with big pharma, making medicine extremely overpriced. Or government bailouts of banks which are long beyond bankruptcy causing all sorts of mishaps.
The only solution is a return to true capitalism. Career-politicians are just as guilty as (if not more than) the big corporations.
What is “true capitalism”? Specifically what time period and country are you talking about?
What “safety regulations” do you feel are harmful and need to be removed for the good of society?
What do you say to people who think this is complete nonsense? The “free market” wants to give me products filled with lead and asbestos, use my state’s rivers as their personal dumping grounds, and destroy indigineous people’s homelands so they can sell fossil fuels cheaper and destroy the planet faster. The “free market” wants low wage growth, a renter’s economy, and massive inequality. You’ll excuse me if I don’t believe that a magical invisible hand in some boardroom will look out for me.
What “safety regulations” do you feel are harmful and need to be removed for the good of society?
What do you say to people who think this is complete nonsense? The “free market” wants to give me products filled with lead and asbestos, use my state’s rivers as their personal dumping grounds, and destroy indigineous people’s homelands so they can sell fossil fuels cheaper and destroy the planet faster. The “free market” wants low wage growth, a renter’s economy, and massive inequality. You’ll excuse me if I don’t believe that a magical invisible hand in some boardroom will look out for me.
The impression I get from people who talk about the free market is that they consider nothing besides the market itself and nothing besides the exchange of goods is important
You think corporations wouldn't harm the general populace without regulation? What a laugh, just in terms of pollution shit would be catastrophic
Ah yes, true capitalism, that thing nobody ever tried before, much like the true communism we (as in humanity) never truly experienced - or so say my Trotskyist nemeses.
The examples included in the article are just egregious: forcing someone to come to work who has just lost their parent in a car accident, threatening a worker with firing for sitting on the job.
I'd like to think there's a move towards management respecting and appreciating their staff more, but I fear that's only happening in tech (and even then it's still very dependent on the management team).