Re:Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
by cmonnow on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:10AM
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You're missing the point.
There is always a power dynamic as long as you have desires.
Even the state employee with a gun has someone else he needs to answer to, or that someone else with a bigger gun will show up at his house.
To the saint/monk/yogi who needs nothing but a fruit a day from a nearby tree, no power on earth has a "power-dynamic" over him.
The thing you're missing is that money is required to live. If I "voluntarily" decide to stop earning it, or if I end up in a job where I earn substantially less, a state employee with a gun will eventually show up to my house and evict me from it. If I am hungry and take some food from a store, a state employee with a gun will put me in a cage. The idea that there's no power dynamic at play here is absurd.