fail better soon

11/ and there is no such thing as a human who is not entitled to the full fruits of their labor.
[nor any human who is entitled to anything less than basic dignity, safety, and plenty; with or without labor.]

10/
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNSKILLED LABOR.

9/ there is no room for empathy in that math, never mind dignity or equity.
they call us “human resources.”
and that dubious title is granted only because “slave” and “property” were [violently] driven out of fashion, both legally and socially ––mostly, for the time being.

8/ still, today, in every place, in every way, and to the furthest extent that employers can get away with it ––legal or otherwise–– productivity is driven toward infinity, while wages are depressed toward zero; and all other costs are externalized.

number must go up.

7/. in the US, it is the lingering residue, and the constant threat, of slavery ––the ultimate severance of value from the human beings who produce it; the evil, destructive lie upon which capitalism was built.

6/ ..and a cunning trick of language [backed by a monopoly on legal violence] will make it all seem natural, inevitable, intractable, even just.

“unskilled labor."

5/
capital will always say:
"rules, punishment, hardship for thee, but not for me.
freedom, dignity, plenty for me, but not for thee.
i will take the value of your labor,
plus the credit, title, and rewards of it as well.
all that you sow, i will reap.
all that you deserve, i will enjoy..

4/ ..so the cycle of caste apartheid [formal or otherwise] retrenches.
custom and law protect the owners/bosses without restraining them, while restraining the workers without protecting them.

3/ worse, the cumulative deleterious effects of the severe exploitation, demoralization, and physical toll perpetrated upon the worker, then become, in the mind of the owner [and customer], further justification for such awful treatment. the enshrined meritocracy mythos both reinforces and veils it,

2/ the dehumanization is part-and-parcel of the “unskilled” designation.
in order to profit so greatly from exploiting human labor so ruthlessly, the mind simply cannot cope with the cognitive dissonance brought about by acknowledgement of workers’ full and equal humanity.

1/ plus, every barista [and front-line service worker of every kind] in the US is spoken to dozens of times a day––by both customers and management–– in ways that not a single C-suite exec would [or could!] tolerate even once, ever, from anyone [except someone with the power to fire/ruin them?].

^THIS!^
true for every “unskilled” job everywhere.

the very term “unskilled labor” was an misnomer invented by the owner class to describe categories of workers they refuse to pay a livable wage, to wrap a veil of meritocracy around their white/male-superemacist fantasies and preserve their empire.

I have anxious disaster brain from navigating a lifetime of disasters, and I genuinely hate how it keeps being proven useful and correct.

Definition of ABJECT sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe; cast down in spirit : servile, spiritless; showing hopelessness or resignation… See the full definition

“abject" snuggling?
like, they’re miserable as they snuggle?

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spare a thought for michael dukakis today.

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Voters Respond: 67% Would Still Love Even If Sandworm.

Mamdani to Implement Shai-Hulud Law:
Free Spice, Mandatory Uneven Gait for All Pedestrians Across Five Boroughs

Major Twist:
Mamdani Implements Shyamalan Law in Sixth Borough,
Was Ghost Whole Time.

they’re garlanding grijalva.
in fact, they’re attempting to effectively garland congress entirely.

the way they won all those “best places to work” awards was by not allowing anybody who hadn’t been in the same job there at least a year fill out the survey.
oh, and by subcontracting the janitorial labor, so those who got paid the least to do the most/worst work weren’t technically employees.

always had these rules at wh0le f00ds.
soooo many [often contradictory] rules micromanaging customer interactions [and all other aspects of employee behavior]. impossible for any employee not to accumulate a fireable number of documented tiny infractions. 1/3+ frontline workforce turnover annually.

“new paper suggests AI improves both efficiency and effectiveness of bigotry"

“new paper suggests AI can improve both efficiency and effectiveness of bigotry"

"new paper suggests bigots still be doing the bigotry"