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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by alexgmcm on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:41AM (#17766913)
But the current model is that you are just a human resource, little different than the desk you sit at.

They don't ask the machines in the factories how the company should be run and thus why would they ask the workers?

You are essentially company property - they have bought your time.

It's a sad state of affairs as it probably causes a great deal of workers to become alienated and disillusioned with their work.

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Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders by maym86 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:46AM (#17766953)
That's the point. Treating low paid workers as interchangeable, disposable resources needs to change and this is a small step towards giving them a little more control of their situation.
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