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Re:Tech’s Military Dilemma by knuththetruth on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:53AM (#17721888)
Actually, lots of people have that conviction. Over a thousand people inside Google signed on against the company’s collaboration with the military, there was all kinds of internal outcry and contention at internal forums, they pushed strongly back against executives bald-faced lies. It already happened:

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military...

And here’s the thing about labor struggle: the reason why Capital owners try to quash it before it gets started is because it’s transformative. Once people see the power they have when they act collectively, what really turns the wheels at work and in society, they’re changed.

Re:Tech’s Military Dilemma by buth_lika on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:00AM (#17722132)
> Once people see the power they have when they act collectively

Also, once people see things under the facade, such as

> “Letting you ask that question is the voice that you have. Very few companies would allow you to do that.”

Re:Tech’s Military Dilemma by gt_ on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#17725721)
You’re replying to a devout Marxist. This is not a debate over the value of labor movements.

There seems to be a reason the labor movement has squandered since the rise of the Military Industrial Complex, and what’s what I’m speaking to.