Re:Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from ...
by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:00AM
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> It's a very popular piece of fiction, too: paint one side as "the ordinary people", the underdog, morally superior, and thus taken advantage of. And the other side is, obviously, the devil.
? That's not what I mean at all. Think of Uber; the drivers don't have much control over when they work, if they want to afford to live in a building. The people in charge of Uber, however, do have control over when the drivers work.
In a school, the teachers have more power than the children – but oftentimes when that power is exercised, it's in dealing with bullying or classroom disruption.
Acknowledging that some people have more power than others is not the same thing as declaring the powerful evil.
> "The people" are often not much of an underdog, as are "the workers".
? That's not what I mean at all. Think of Uber; the drivers don't have much control over when they work, if they want to afford to live in a building. The people in charge of Uber, however, do have control over when the drivers work.
In a school, the teachers have more power than the children – but oftentimes when that power is exercised, it's in dealing with bullying or classroom disruption.
Acknowledging that some people have more power than others is not the same thing as declaring the powerful evil.
> "The people" are often not much of an underdog, as are "the workers".
But in this particular instance, they are.