We all need to strike
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If you still get paid for a job not well done.. it's still hurts the company. Believe me, there has been an attack on tech workers by the industry. Firing people during record profits, using LLMs to upset the negotiating power of artists and software people alike, not giving inflation adjusted pay hikes, etc. You can even see the billionaire owned media grind their gears trying to come up with words to discredit workers doing their bare-minimum such as "quiet quitting".
It shouldn't be a conspiracy theory to claim that a few people control the reins of a lot of workers... in reality it's a community of few thousand billionaires cooperating to oppress workers.
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labor
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noun
la·bor ˈlā-bər
plural labors- expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory was sentenced to six months at hard labor
- the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits
- human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy Industry needs labor for production.
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I organize tech workers. The expectation that they are going to fight an uphill battle inhibits a lot of them and often it's not the scenario they are faced with. Tech workers being skeptical of the possibility of unionizing their workplace is a mind virus that needs to be eradicated for anything to happen. If then they find hostility, there are endless means to win over their colleagues, but if you discourage them before even starting, nothing will ever change.
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Not even close to sufficient imo
We need a general strike. Shut everything down. Assert the power of the people
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I think it's time for you to be introduced to the concept of "cognitive work". We have been doing that for a few thousand years now.
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How are you contributing to that?
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A strike is a specific thing. That you do as part of a unit.
does not mean we are not protesting.
But that doesn't make it a strike either.
Not everything that hurts the company is a strike.
A strike is a group based action in which you refuse to do your job while demanding to get some level concessions before you'll go back to work. Quiet quiting fails the organization aspect, and the demand aspect.
We just consider organizing as just quietly aligning our wallets and behaviours without being overt about it
That's not the same type of organizing that needs to take place for something to be considered a strike.
I am sure there are a lot of organization for software developers for people who do want to be loud about it too.
When they are, then it may be considered a strike.
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My point is that I said i felt isolated by blue collar workers not considering tech workers as the same class.
Labor isn't a class difference.
desk workers suffer numerous health issues due to sitting all day/lack of movement.
Blue collar workers get significantly decreased life spans compared to white collar, because we breath in fumes and strain our bodies. That's not the point you want to stand on for them being the same.
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My company will fire anyone who talks about unionizing. And with Republicans destroying the Labor protections once afforded by the government, that's a really risky move to make.
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A strike is a refusal to commit labour to the company.
...except you don't do it individually, you should do it collectivelly, else it won't make any lasting difference and will probably get you fired
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So you, without a tiny bit of irony, would say you sitting at your desk is a labour job?
