I mean I’d say organizing to overthrow the socioeconomic system causing climate change is the most productive thing you can do but I suppose that does involve taking to people yes.

With its stars and celebrities

I am absolutely BEGGING all of you to not get your political theory exclusively through internet celebrities.

Posing like that Charizard and yelling “Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”

Sounds like a skill issue to me.

Yep. Web/tech companies generally had an easier time than most dealing with the pandemic, and capitalism, in all its reactionary, short-sighted wisdom, smelled profit and massively over-invested, so companies grew faster than they knew how to handle.

Cut to ~6 months ago and most of them had nothing to show for all of that money (Reddit being a great example - in the time between their massive expansion and now, they only thing they actually added were wildly unpopular NFT avatars). But capitalism demands that profits increase at an increasing rate, so they have to squeeze money from somewhere, which is how we got the massive tech layoffs at the start of the year.

Now they need to find even more ways to increase profits, but many of them are at the point where finding ways to monetize is actually really difficult, so they’re tying to squeeze money out of everything they can find - Reddit’s API changes, Twitter trying to push people towards blue with arbitrary limits, wholesale shuttering of things like Gfycat. Now obviously that’s going to cause a bunch of problems with user trust and retention but who cares about that? That’s a tomorrow problem, and we need profit now!

Capitalism working as intended.

Finally, a leader who’s willing to make the tough calls and surrender to the covenant without even attempting to fight back.

If you’re only a decent person when consistently threatened into being one, you’re not a decent person. I say we get rid of the system that rewards and encourages the worst parts of humanity.

Situation: There are 20 screw standards.

John Corporate: “20 standards… I know, I’ll create a new type of screw that will be unique to my corporate overlords and prevent users from repairing their own devices!”

Situation: There are 21 screw standards.

Thoroughly hoping the Eastern parts of the US/Canada come to this realization about capitalism (ha ha our skies are smoke).

From what I read it has emergency weights it can jettison to surface (in theory) but if something ruptured and they’re dealing with water somewhere it shouldn’t be, or if they’re stuck inside the titanic, that’s not going to be much help. Plus even if they did surface, they’re still sealed inside and need outside workers to open it.

Yeah this is a pretty good response IMO. As others have pointed out, the point of a strike is to withhold the labor that actually makes corporations money. Reddit has never compensated the moderators that keep the site from turning into a cesspool that advertisers wouldn’t touch with a 20-foot stick, and they’ve been completely unwilling to accommodate the users that actually provide the content for their site. A strike is completely valid here and any strike is a battle. The “we want to work with the bosses” approach is a losing battle, and the strongest strikes take a fighting approach. My only critique is that I’d maybe give a preferred alternative but honestly given the extremely sudden circumstances of this whole thing I understand the fragmentation.

This and !twobestfriendsplay are basically the only communities I miss/want to see come back on different platforms but I’m glad there’s at least a general place to keep track of things.

Oh hey Tim Cook tweeted a video ad about the nightmare goggles today and the first thing it showed was someone using them to work while barely paying attention to making their child breakfast.

Very cool and good I love capitalism =^)

Going private means nobody can view or post in the sub unless manually added by the mods. Presumably they won’t be adding anyone since that defeats the purpose, so yeah, nobody can view or post.

Referencing RLM? How embarrassing.