Corporations are notoriously short sighted and have a tendency to do everything ass backwards. For instance, instead of paying a living wage they spend millions lobbying Congress and funding anti union tacticts so they won't have to do that. I cannot make that make sense😕
I really appreciate the reminders to analyze labor dynamics by the actual relationships to capital, not what words are applied to them. "Employee" doesn't just mean what the US Department of Labor calls it (much less what the DOL is willing to enforce), and "strike" doesn't just mean that a NLRB-recognized union has taken a vote...
Along those lines, some people have gone even further with this with the technofeudalism thesis -- we're all serfs on the Zuckerberg farmville. I'm interested in the argument, though my own tendency as a reporter is ultimately to be wary of buying into labels exactly because they ultimately have a tendency to obfuscate rather than clarify.
Corporations are notoriously short sighted and have a tendency to do everything ass backwards. For instance, instead of paying a living wage they spend millions lobbying Congress and funding anti union tacticts so they won't have to do that. I cannot make that make sense😕
I really appreciate the reminders to analyze labor dynamics by the actual relationships to capital, not what words are applied to them. "Employee" doesn't just mean what the US Department of Labor calls it (much less what the DOL is willing to enforce), and "strike" doesn't just mean that a NLRB-recognized union has taken a vote...
Along those lines, some people have gone even further with this with the technofeudalism thesis -- we're all serfs on the Zuckerberg farmville. I'm interested in the argument, though my own tendency as a reporter is ultimately to be wary of buying into labels exactly because they ultimately have a tendency to obfuscate rather than clarify.