I worked as an essential worker when I was in high-school, and the amount of shit I had to put up was insane. Your boss is screwing you over, one way or another, the people you service demand you treat them like they are the most important being in the world. I don't say it happens to everybody, but for a lot of people, this is the reality of wage labor.
I try to advocate for pacifism as much as possible, but it's miracle and a blessing more acts of domestic terrorism/conflict aren't committed, and I wouldn't be surprised if starting see more (in the US). I strongly believe Covid is nothing more than a "Test" -- not by some divine entity, but if we, as humanity, do not take climate change more seriously, then we haven't seen shit yet.
We'll have even more displaced, disgruntled, and broken people.
People can only take so much before they break e.g. 1917 Russia
Like Voltaire said, "When the poor have nothing left to eat, then they will eat the rich."
I hope all these selfish "knowledge" workers can disassemble, clean, and reassemble an AR-15 because if shit hits the fan, knowing the ins and outs of dependency injection in next month's Bullshit.js and your salary + total compensation won't save you.
>if we, as humanity, do not take climate change more seriously, then we haven't seen shit yet.
Are you advocating for domestic terrorism in the name of climate change?
Screws are essential, but you can probably go without a few and if one breaks you will just throw it away and get another one.
A graphics card is expensive, and the computer might still work in some core ways without it! Yet that you might try to get repaired and go through an annoying RGA process to get a new one.
Which type of worker is the screw and which one is the graphics card?
Phrased another way. All workers sell their labor, but some people are effectively capital by themselves. A factory buys a piece of capital (the machine that creates the product) and the laborer.
The hospital hires a doctor who is both the piece of capital and the laborer. It makes sense that there is a higher price tag when a person is also the the machine that makes the product.
That capitalists value people and treat them nicer when they are also basically a piece of capital makes perfect sense.
If you want to also consider the worker's point of view, you need think of things like cost of living vs salary and unionizing. Computer part analogies are much too naive for that.
Sense you seemed to miss the point. Capitalists dont care about you. The dirty secret though is that communists/socialists view you as a cog in a machine too. Every large system will.
For the record, my intention was to contrast that to the antiwork sentiment, and how it is understandable, if not a direct consequence, starting from the "capitalist" model of thinking about work.
Half of the antiwork sub is just bringing that mentality to the lower paid workplaces, that when you've got a bad boss who is hiring new people at a higher salary than you, then you should find a new job that pays better and fuck all the loyalty nonsense. Bad bosses deserve to be stuck with bad employees or no employees. Nobody should put up with that. Workers should be aggressively suing over wage theft.
But cue the emotional meltdown over how they're all just complainers, while your job hopping is just smart...
Company loyalty for thee, but not for me...
These are people whose idea of a bad day is when their code has a bug in it, or their home theatre system took too long to update, or the food they ordered wasn't perfect and delivered with a huge smile by exactly the kind of person they're trying to deride.
Many won't know what it's like to not be able to heat their living space or be without a reliable car or tell their landlord rent isn't going to be made this month.
So it's not surprising they don't get it. Life is fine for them. The boat shouldn't be rocked, everything is working as intended so long as it's working for them.
Of course this has a human face so it makes more sense to attack it on the basis that it's some sort of extremist movement akin to a disguised racist forum :/
I think that unless you are working minimum wage you don't get to call the sub "nihilistic, apathetic or zoomer adhd" if anything most of the members were essential workers during covid and struggle to afford basic living otherwise they would not be angry.
I am very surprised by the comments in the thread to be honest, if you work in tech, your job is pretty much useless the code you write doesn't "advance humanity" I mean let's not kid ourselves tech jobs are pretty overblown in importance compared to essential workers.
Really hope we do some thinking before taking this hostile stance, if anything we should stand by workers who suffer from shitty working conditions.
EDIT:I worked minimum wage, no wage no health care.. I worked really different shitty jobs in risky setting and there was always an implicit solidarity in the workers group, when I moved to tech (very later on) I was surprised by the toxicity and grandeur some people show as if building to-do apps is all that's left from moving to the next level of civilization, some humility and acceptance would be good along the way especially since we're lucky to have the opportunity to work remotely, great salaries and benefits and the ability to spend time doing something we like.