• ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Sometimes I feel like a simple…70% power jab to the head when billionaires say stupid shit would stop them saying a lot of dumb shit.

  • groucho@retrolemmy.com
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    7 hours ago

    A long time ago, my then-scrum master pitched an idea to us: ID badges with little microphones. The microphones wouldn’t record anything, but they’d constantly monitor the ambient noise to see if we were having the kind of excited, buzzy conversations that signaled innovation. Once we had them, we could tune our days to maximize innovation.

    I was brand new at the company but I told him that everyone was trying to catch lightning in a bottle, but nobody was willing to build a fucking battery. Then I told him the day we adopted that policy, I’d hand in my resignation. It never came up again.

    Motherfuckers will try anything and they always have.

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    9 hours ago

    Oh no! Someone forgot all the fancy dances we do today is so the common populace doesn’t eat the ruling classes! Looks like we should remind him.

  • DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world
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    The answer is to simply not work for them. The problem is that there is always someone willing to put up with poor working conditions and poor pay. Don’t be that someone.

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      8 hours ago

      It isn’t enough to not work for them. You must stop buying from them but no one wants the inconvenience of going without and so they keep sending trillions of dollars to the very despots that are ruining their lives.

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      I don’t get your downvotes…if you know something is bad and you participate in it, you’re part of the problem

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        It’s because it’s braindead “free market” cargo-cultism.

        Merely not participating isn’t good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.

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        They like working for shit companies and will make any excuse not to leave. Money comes first, long live capitalism!

        • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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          Not everyone has the luxury to be choosy about their employer. Did you forget we are living in late stage capitalism with an ever growing impoverishment rate?