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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by jp555 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:38AM (#23081191)
"the true power in society is held by a relatively small number of people who hold a massive amount of capital" ... so they can direct collective actions (eg. a free enterprise).

So why would your top-down collective action be any different?

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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by headsupernova on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:48AM (#23081305)
they did not imply top-down organization.
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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by jp555 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:05PM (#23081530)
I felt they did.

I think we've only ever seen things work sustainably when every individual adopts a particular set of behaviours, but maybe this is mostly just semantics?

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