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Re:I'm Telling: Employer-Tattling and the Decline of Agency by gress on Monday June 09, 2014 @04:42PM (#7870381)
You are conflating agency and privilege. In the case of resisting oppression, the available actions are unchanged, but the consequences are different.
Re:I'm Telling: Employer-Tattling and the Decline of Agency by tedks on Monday June 09, 2014 @05:43PM (#7870694)
This is a weak sort of agency. Indeed I'm able to resist capitalist oppression by not working, but if the consequences are that I starve to death than I hardly see that as a reasonable outcome.

I think this is an uninteresting definitional question at this point, though. If I'm misusing agency than so is the author of this piece; the important thing is that we be able to communicate, which I think is possible. If you want to further nitpick specific words to garner karma, do it with someone else.

Re:I'm Telling: Employer-Tattling and the Decline of Agency by gress on Monday June 09, 2014 @07:05PM (#7871010)
There are lots of other things you can do to resist capitalist oppression - e.g. Unionize, or create other kinds of social support. A strawman isn't very useful.

I'm sorry you've chosen to be accusatory instead of reasonable.