Forgotten Employee (2002)

Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by PakG1 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @11:48PM (#17335898)

That reminds me of the story of Nazi officers telling Jews to carry big rocks from one fence to the other each day. The work was so meaningless that the prisoners couldn't take it anymore and started to jump onto the electric fence to kill themselves. I think such a practice where you make someone feel completely worthless is inhumane.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by xab9 on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:37AM (#17336176)

Welcome to the wonderful world of modern capitalism.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by kentrado on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:04AM (#17344907)

Don't know why you are being downvoted. That's an excellent point. Hell, even Albert Camus made the same comparison calling Sisyphus the proletariat of the Gods.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by tudelo on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:54AM (#17338239)

I'm sure you're just summarizing your view or making a joke in a really bad way. But does having a restriction on firing employees even coincide with capitalism?

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by ggg9990 on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:20AM (#17336657)

Pure capitalism can literally never sustain useless work.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by FranzFerdiNaN on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:52AM (#17336950)

Of course it can. Capitalism is not about being the best or most effective, it's about having the deepest pockets. And being the best is by far not the best way to get those pockets.

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