The current administration will consider any action against billionaires as domestic terrorism as witnessed with Tesla's recent boycotts despite this happening all around the world against American's richest companies. Much of America is in the denial phase right now but the writing is on the wall already.
I'm willing to bet most people don't want to work in factories again with Chinese conditions even as Secretary of Commerce Lutnick professes it so but the mega corporations demand the corporate security along with the obvious national security reasons for detaching from China.
As billionaires lust to take more of the pie without one ounce of support or laws or worker rights, against AI that enshittifies jobs and turns white collar work into a race towards the bottom, the populist class has no choice but to fight this head on.
As the government and businesses use AI to target the resistance as they take away rights, benefits, and standards of living you have to ask ourselves what side of history you want to be on because history shows these things tend to come to a massive clash. Power vs the people. Rights vs profits. Morality vs corruption.
We live in revolutionary times, thanks for the article share.
Good luck rallying the troops when half your cohorts are fascists, conservatives or Christians with a chip on their shoulder. Tech laborers don't have the leverage they think they do.
Now will we do that? Seems doubtful. People long lost thst solidarity to begin with in lieu of this hyper individualistic digital scape.
You get the picture. You can't blame half these people either, most of them just want food on the table same as you or me. Relying on class consciousness to revolt against tyranny is like relying on a drogue chute to stop you 10ft from hitting the ground. It's fatalism predicated on the lie that things now are the worse than they've ever been.
>You get the picture. You can't blame half these people either, most of them just want food on the table same as you or me.
I'm blaming everyone and no one at the same time. It's a prisoners dilemma, and if everyone struck for even a few days it'd be over in surprisingly quick cadence. The dock workers strike barely lasted 2 days, for instance.
But the alternatives make everyone lose out, and people are very risk avoidant, even if they boil in the pot as a result.
Firebombing/damaging civilian cars and civilian buildings belonging to TESLA due to political ideologies is, by definition, terrorism. Regardless of which administration is in power, the law says you cannot do this so it is their job to stop it.
Don't call it a boycott when there's more to it than just not buying a car.
The pay scales differently, no doubt, but only because Amazon has to in order to be competitive (I still remember the recruiter saying "even Jeff himself doesnt have a base pay beyond $160k"). If they could get away with making pee break opportunities miniscule, rest assured they would.
I wish twenty-year old me would've read that article, would've stopped me from a lot of fake pressure and heartburn.
bigyabai•9mo ago
Well, that's what the bosses think. Same way "hybrid" work plans just became a backdoor policy for RTO. But "the point" of AI is just to generate text, regardless of how the subtext around it changes.
johnnyanmac•9mo ago